With English evolving this rapidly, by the time we hit the Star Trek era for real (23rd/24th century), people won't be speaking in a way that any of us alive today would ever recognize.
Of course, some of the above parlance isn't so much organically evolved slang as it is clever evasions of YouTube algorithms. If you were to say "killed," for example, the algorithm might censor your video (for the kids!). Hence "unalived." Or if you were to say "raped," that might have to be changed to "assaulted" or "graped" to avoid the algorithm. But three hundred years of this rapid evolution will make future English utterly incomprehensible.
Good thing I'll be dead by then.
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