Getting "Clocked" What is with this pathetic new "word" meaning...

As it is with all of these dumb words, "based", "cap" or whatever new English word is suddenly perverted to mean something else, initially I begin thinking that it might somehow be used somewhat in its original form or meaning.

In the past few months, I had kept hearing this new word going around, or more specifically about "Getting Clocked" by someone.

Initially, this reminded more or less about Clocking in and out of your job, such as what used to be the decades old method where you would literally use a punchcard in the slot of a Payroll Clock, where you clock in and out of jobs.

Back in the day, we used to have the really old-school ones which had the small analog clocks on the punch machines which were usually mounted on walls at the entrance of many workplaces.

For those of you today who never experienced using these, they used to be a real thing before computers began replacing them!

But the more I've been hearing the term, I realized that the usage did not signify clocking into their job, but I had thought it meant maybe that somebody was watching or "timing" them for some reason, maybe like at the gym or some other nonsense.

I just learned today, this term is now being used to suggest someone "catches" you like seeing you somewhere, is now referred to as being "clocked".

Honestly, this is just so ridiculous.

It almost sounds like an aggressive action, like being hit. Kind of pathetic to use the word in the sense of just being spotted or seen by someone.

In a weird way I somewhat understand how they would apply this word, but it's ridiculous and more like a way of using codespeak. Just plain stupid.

Just like the "cap" word. What's wrong with just calling someone a liar?

Ebonics or Cyber Language or whatever the hell these new forms being used, will never officially "catch on" as real definitions or semantics, not even as an official slang term.

We would sooner use the word "fag" to describe cigarette butts like the English do, or the word "pissing" for drinking alcohol and getting wasted, as the English use these words, because I would ever considered this nonsense "nu-speak".