It’s like cool has unofficially been accepted by multiple generations to be the template by which all other trendy words are cut from.
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- 25 days
My parents were square, I was lame, my non-kids are cringe… and I still don’t know what cheugy means
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My wife and I were trying to come up with other slang that has held up like this for basically 100 years. Couldn’t come up with any.
O.K. started off as weird-ass trendy slang thing in the 1800s but now is just a straight up regular word. But cool is just…cool.
24 daysNon-native speaker here, most phrasal verbs sound like slang to me, because they just pick a verb that kinda resembles the action but isn’t quite it, and you use your imagination to give meaning to it… like “hang out”.
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Am I the only person who gets mildly miffed at ‘slayed’ when it was previously ‘slew’? I guess it’s the slow march toward removing rarely-used irregulars which isn’t a bad thing.
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Is it odd that I associate both separately, ‘slayed’ to either a queer icon being a boss (I still haven’t warmed up to the alternative of “serving cunt”) or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I associate ‘slew’ with death by sword and, slightly related, Lily Allen’s Fuck You
- 25 days
Eeeyup.
Slew is propa english of slay. If you slew, you killed.
Slayed is nova anglice of slayyyyyy. If you slayed, yer were deemed cool
and what ever happened to slaw? are we going to do that as cool one of these generations or am i just unbearably old.
- 25 days
Capital -> Dandy -> Swell -> Keen -> Groovy -> Rad -> Slayed (although I’d have picked Bussin’).
I wish I knew more going back even into the nineteenth century. I recently read the Arsene Lupin books (1905), and although that’s French translated to British English, I found the slang charming. Although I think cool was only used in regards to someone being calm and controlled…
have you read much P. G. Wodehouse? It took me a chapter or two for my brain to adjust to the nineteenth century literature but that guy turns a phrase like nobody else. uses the same plot a lot, but it doesn’t matter because you always like the way he says it.
- 25 days
Because cool isn’t slang, you have arrived in your jalopy, wheels or ride but you always drove your car.
Cool is a temperature, the words that aren’t slang but also mean hip, funky, dope, sick, sweet, lit, fire, based, peak, are good, trendy and fashionable
- 25 days
That list is sick, to the point that people in Boston call it “wicked”
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It’s grouse indeed, to the point where Aussie Aboriginals would call it “deadly”.
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Ironically, you’re wrong - but also the fact that you don’t realize that it is slang, is one of the things that transitions a word from being slang.
