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Jimmy Snyder
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You left out keen and kiewl (mispronounciation of cool).
zoobyshoe said:Yeah, "hella". I didn't start hearing that till about 4 months ago. How far has it gone?
epenguin said:A word that irritated me when first here was 'awesome!' Vivid and witty first time, then becomes a tiresome cliché that devalues a word. However I think it has worn off now and seems not to be heard so often.
Dembadon said:Four months ago!?
People started saying that when I was in middle school1 (late '90s).
1 Northern California
Ben Niehoff said:Nobody in SoCal says "hella", by the way, unless they're recent transplants.
Dembadon said:"Hella tight," or even "tight" by itself, made me doubt our species' ability to survive for much longer. It sounds absolutely ridiculous.
This makes sense. Someone pegged me as an East Coaster last year when I blurted it out.Chi Meson said:I was going to say, "Wicked," properly used is a New England, or more specifically, a Boston thing. It's a set part of the vernacular in the way Zooby describes it, not passing, but multigenerational.
I never heard this one. "Own", I was aware of.Moving to another idiom, during the 80s, did anyone else experience the term "FACE!" of "FACIAL!" which was then the equivalent of today's "OWNED!" or even "PWNED!"
Dembadon said:Four months ago!?
People started saying that when I was in middle school1 (late '90s).
1 Northern California
Seriously, I just started hearing some of the younger people I know start using "hella" about four months ago (in San Diego). They're not transplants and I'd never heard the expression before. It could be they picked it up from transplants, or that it was brought back from a trip North.Ben Niehoff said:Nobody in SoCal says "hella", by the way, unless they're recent transplants.
Maybe they just watched the episode of South Park where Eric Cartman uses it a lot (and his friends find it annoying).zoobyshoe said:Seriously, I just started hearing some of the younger people I know start using "hella" about four months ago (in San Diego). They're not transplants and I'd never heard the expression before. It could be they picked it up from transplants, or that it was brought back from a trip North.
That would explain it. I think the people I'm speaking of are no strangers to South Park.Fredrik said:Maybe they just watched the episode of South Park where Eric Cartman uses it a lot (and his friends find it annoying).
epenguin said:There is another recent one struggling to get out of the back of my mind, I will let you know when it escapes.
Unfortunately it sometimes evolves through mere mangling. I've been told that it's now considered acceptable to pronounce nuclear "nucular". I blame George W. Bush and Jack Bauer.DaveC426913 said:Evolution of the language (as opposed to mere mangling of it) is an inevitable and noble principle.
Fredrik said:I've been told that it's now considered acceptable to pronounce nuclear "nucular".
Agreed. Which is why I was making a distinction between evolution for the efficacy of the language (to express a new idea), and mere sloppiness.Fredrik said:Unfortunately it sometimes evolves through mere mangling. I've been told that it's now considered acceptable to pronounce nuclear "nucular". I blame George W. Bush and Jack Bauer.
This reminds me of an episode of I Love Lucy where she is pregnant and decides that she and Ricky should learn proper English, so she hires a tutor.DaveC426913 said:Agreed. Which is why I was making a distinction between evolution for the efficacy of the language (to express a new idea), and mere sloppiness.
KingNothing said:Among the people I hang out with, "fail" is really, really commonly used as a noun. It's probably a generational thing. I notice a lot of people around 18-25 use it that way.
FtlIsAwesome said:One thing I dislike is when people pronounce "coupon" as "koo-pon" instead of "Q-pon".
FtlIsAwesome said:One thing I dislike is when people pronounce "coupon" as "koo-pon" instead of "Q-pon".
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