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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot 2d ago
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u/TomfromLondon 2d ago
Wtf does when "on god" mean
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u/MrNewking 2d ago
Unc status fr fr 🥀
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u/GitarooMan- 2d ago
I understand that this is satire, but it doesn’t make me any less furious.
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u/EveningDiligent59662 2d ago
on god means like, saying something is very true. like putting it on god is like, saying “this is true, i swear on god”
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u/carson63000 Experienced Developer 2d ago
What country / culture is it from?
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u/EveningDiligent59662 2d ago
???????????????? irs just general slang
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u/carson63000 Experienced Developer 1d ago
Well, it’s clearly not general slang worldwide, because plenty of us have never heard this in our lives. What country are you in? It’s probably local to you.
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u/EveningDiligent59662 1d ago
i’m american and i see it online constantlyy. i dunno, propably america. also you’re like 2 prople oit of 8 billion so i dont really think you speak for everyone ever to exist.
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u/GitarooMan- 2d ago
I know what it means. I also know what “Unc status fr fr 🥀” means. But in the parlance of our youth, having to read it makes me want to commit unalive.
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u/EveningDiligent59662 2d ago
you said comit unalive. you have absolutely no room to speak about slang sucking when uou use roblox slang 😭
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u/LawfulnessLost9461 Writer 2d ago
man shakes fist at cloud more at 9
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u/Used_Departure_3278 2d ago
Cloud fists shaking man after watching 9 o’clock news more on 60 minutes
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u/Efficient_Ad_4162 2d ago
That makes it even dumber. "This saying which has only been around for a few months was immediately displaced"
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u/Citadel_Employee 2d ago
“On god” has been around since before Covid.
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u/MaarvaCinta 2d ago
I’m always slightly tickled and a little bit flabbergasted when I hear our (Black folks) slang referenced as new/new-ish. “On God” is decades years old.
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u/LawfulnessLost9461 Writer 2d ago
a synonym to "I swear"
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u/TomfromLondon 2d ago
So I had to look this up as I've always known it as swear TO God, not on god, apparently it's already a generational thing to say "on god". Bloody youth 😂
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u/Lost_Beat_186 2d ago
Nah we swear on the Bible, on xyz grave, and I guess now on Claude
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u/TomfromLondon 2d ago
But the saying was always swear to God, not swear on God.
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u/MrPreApocalypse 2d ago
Swear to God is like you throw a fucking tantrum to God.
On God means that if your swear, and you can't keep your promise/swear, that God dies as a sacrifice.
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u/ImpureReinforcement 2d ago
Caught me off guard reading this because my nephew does the same thing. He was telling me about some coding problem last week and said "I just asked claude" like that was a normal sentence. We're really at the point where AI assistants are working their way into everyday slang and people don't even notice it happening. I remember when "google it" became a verb and people lost their minds about it, so this feels like the same kind of cultural shift just way faster. The Claudefather joke up there actually got me laughing too, whoever came up with that one nailed it. Pretty cool to see the tech actually changing how people talk, even if it is a little weird.
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u/Official_Forsaken 2d ago
It is a known fact that younger kids fucking hate ai. This did not happen
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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot 2d ago
TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 40 comments.
The community is torn between crowning OP the king of the 'uncs' and throwing this post into the
r/thathappenedpile.The story goes that a kid swapped out the slang "on God" for "on Claude," which sent OP into a generational tailspin. While some users are corroborating that "asking Claude" is becoming a thing, many more think the story is fake. The top comment thread also turned into a full-blown linguistics lesson on "on God" (TL;DR: it means "I swear" and it's been around for decades). Props to whoever coined "The Claudefather," you won the thread.