Do you know all the different ways you can use the word bet, when responding to someone?

[Msputiton]

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Here's a few ways we use it.

Says something you like?
Me: Bet. (Okay, sure or approval) (most common usage

Says something fake
Me: Bet. (Doubt it)

Someone says something ignorant
Bet (I'm not the one and you bout to find out)

I love this word because when we respond (especially through text) ya don't know if we agree, don't agree, like what you said, or if you bout to catch that 1, 2. 🥴
Some of these ways of using it is from the older generation but it's still out there circulating

[DesiUwU]

there's too many white folk answering this question lmfao

[Curiosity2006]

lol Don't non-whites use it too?

[CoolCatMar1]

🤣😂🤣

[DesiUwU]

yes, but the person asking the question meant how to use it as a slang term. It's commonly used by black people as a way of saying "yes" or "ok" or "alright", etc. But i noticed many people answering this question are old or white, and it's not meant to be offensive, but it's just not used commonly among y'all.

[Msputiton]

@Curiosity2006 they do but we use it differently 🤣 that's why i asked this.

[Curiosity2006]

Ohhh okay okay. Me no English so me so sorry!

[CoolCatMar1]

@Curiosity2006 hahahah lol

[DesiUwU]

it wasn't meant to be offensive. you really gotta hang around black americans to get it

[Curiosity2006]

Sure sure I'm sorry, like I said я не американская так извините! лол XD

[DesiUwU]

@Curiosity2006 i speak a little bit of russian lmfao i can read that

[CoolCatMar1]

Tbh the whole phrase looks weird to me Curiosity are u really Russian?

[CoolCatMar1]

Я не Американка извините

[DesiUwU]

@CoolCatMar1 it says she's from the Russian federation. little does she know, i'm a polyglot

[CoolCatMar1]

I know 4 languages

[DesiUwU]

@CoolCatMar1 what are all of them? i speak Japanese, English, a little bit of Chinese, and a little bit of Russian

[CoolCatMar1]

I speak Greek, English, German and Russian because i am half Russian

[Curiosity2006]

Хахах ты это можешь сказать но я сейчас живу в Египте XPP

[CoolCatMar1]

@Curiosity2006 правда?

[Curiosity2006]

Genuinely congrats on your intellectualism you both! X))

[DesiUwU]

@Curiosity2006 tysm! I like meeting native speakers, it's my favorite part of GAG

[Curiosity2006]

@CoolCatMar1 лол Да как я говорила XP

[CoolCatMar1]

@Curiosity2006 ясно

[Curiosity2006]

Same here! But how on earth could you learn japanese? lol XD I heard duolingo is great for it?

[DesiUwU]

@Curiosity2006 i read a lot and watched anime. Used duolingo for vocabulary. It was pretty easy actually, i became conversational in 6 months

[Curiosity2006]

@DesiUwU My god! 👍 👍 👍

[loveslongnails]

You bet

[SnowedIn]

I bet I don't.

That said, I do know that if I talk about something at home and my kids say "bet" -- that's an achievement. If they say "cool", that's code for "you're a boring old man".

[humanearth]

That's just how many ways you can use the word FUCK

[Msputiton]

That word isn't even a word, it's a law.
Did you know that?

[exitseven]

It can be a verb and a exclamation.

[Msputiton]

@exitseven i mean the origins of the word.
It was the king of England.
Black plague ravaged the population.
So he decreed the law
Fornucate
Under the
Command of
King
Eventually people used it as a vulgar meaning of sex.

[exitseven]

@Msputiton Is it like the law of gravity? What goes up must come down?

[Pink2000]

Yes.
I use it to confirm something.
Example : I’ll see you later

Me : Bet

[loveslongnails]

I rarely use "bet". It's not as versatile as "fuck":

Fuck in it's purest form works as both a noun and a verb, but can also be an adjective or adverb. Fuck me is a great term of surprise, fuck you is a straightforward rebuttal of anyone's argument. Fuck off means shut up and go away.

What the fuck? Fuck my life. Fuck if I know. Go fuck yourself. Let's fuck around. 'What the fuck are you doing?' I just don't give a fuck. I'm fucking doing something. I'm not fucking doing anything.

Holy fuck works, damned fuck does not. You can fuck something up you cannot fuck something down. You can fuck with something/someone but you can't fuck against them. You can give a fuck but you cannot take a fuck.

[Sixgunsound]

When one of my students says their dog ate their homework I look them in the eye and say bet

[Curiosity2006]

Ohhh you're a teacher? What subject? (please don't say math, please don't say math)

[Sixgunsound]

Middle school library

[Curiosity2006]

Sounds amusing! Library is always an intellectual sophisticated place to be.

[Wish4UrB00ty]

I’m definitely not that smart… 😂😂🥰

[Wish4UrB00ty]

I love this!!!

[Msputiton]

Bet.

[Wish4UrB00ty]

Lmao!!

[dustybiker]

Too early for me on this. So, no. 🥱

[Msputiton]

Lmao.
Yeah, ngl we use it differently than yall🤣

[dustybiker]

One of those ways is complete opposite from GenX usage. lol Kids today… 😁

[Msputiton]

🤣🤣🤣

[Paul_in_Indy]

You may place a substantial wager that I do!

[LordOfThePines]

I know the normal use, as well as one used as an affirmation.

[Lliam]

You betcha. You can bet on it.

[Curiosity2006]

I bet I know... not!

[CAPTAIN-OBVIOUS]

Aight bet
Do you want to make a bet

[FinalFantasyBro]

I bet you can't think of another way

[TheSpaceGnome]

Just one, a wager (I bet).

[Jennz6]

You “Bet” I do lol

[linka_pat307]

Nope, don't wanna use it either

[BJP21]

You bet I can.

[Fuentes]

Lol nah it's a Gen z word

[Fleet7635]

Lol there is a ton

[exitseven]

I bet I do

[bigpauly]

Bet I do