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korean internet is fighting about 'mom words' again: 얼집, 첫찌, 윰차...
this one's been sitting in the instiz best list all day with 250+ comments so bringing it over. it started from threads posts (from 2024, they keep getting recirculated) asking if other people also cringe at the abbreviations young moms use online.
mini dictionary of the words that kept coming up: 얼집 = 어린이집, daycare 문센 = 문화센터, the community culture center where babies take classes 첫찌 / 두찌 = first kid / second kid (from 첫째 / 둘째) 윰차 = 유모차, stroller 셤니 = 시어머니, mother-in-law 즤 = 저희, our there's also the "mom cafe tone", ending sentences with ~했네요 instead of a plain ~했어요, which apparently bugs people even more. the post's question was basically: why do only the words moms use get called 촌스럽다 (tacky), when every group makes up slang? and the comments split hard: "it gets called tacky because it is tacky lol" "shortening is fine, it's the baby-talk pronunciation that's weird. 첫찌 isn't even shorter than 첫째" "the ~했네요 tone is weirdly addictive. i'm not even married and i use it now" "why mock it at all? from their side 느좋 probably looks just as dumb"
my take: the moms aren't the problem, it's who has status online. 느좋 (느낌 좋다, good vibes) is gen z slang and mostly gets a pass, 얼집 gets roasted. is there a "mom language" like this where you live? thoughts?
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