Wow, gen Z lingo has come into HN faster than I expected. Can someone translate this to traditional English? The definition I find for 'yeet' ("an exclamation of excitement") isn't particularly enlightening...
Update: I see, thanks all!
My definition of "Yeet" is to fling/throw/hurl something, typically with great vigor. Urban Dictionary defines it as "To discard an item at a high velocity." Derives from the Latin Iacio, From Proto-Italic jakjō, from Proto-Indo-European (H)yeh₁- ("to throw, let go"). JK I just made that up, but it's actually plausible.
Never heard the "exclamation of excitement" definition.
"The first empty soda can was yote many moons ago"
According to Wiktionary:
"yeeted
1. simple past tense and past participle of yeet" [1]
Worth noting there is a fair amount of discussion on whether the past tense is "yeeted" or "yote", or even "yaught": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:yeet
See also: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/28300/what-i...
[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yeeted#English
(I do think it would be pretty funny if the past tense ended up as "yote", though.)
I think you're way overestimating the people who come up with new words :P