I’ll never feel the usage of “salty” = “upset”
To me it feels like it should mean something like edgy wit, as in the older usage of “salty sense of humor”
Urban dictionary suggests a curmudgeonly old-guy kind of upset but Zoomers seem to use it to mean upset-upset
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Vibe shift in “salty” that I’m not feeling
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I’ve lost some of my ear for language in the last few years in part because I actually dislike the general drift of language to a kind of messiness that trades conceptual precision for emotional precision or something
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