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24 Jun 2015, 2:59 pm

I just can't stop laughing :lol: :lmao:

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25 Jun 2015, 4:22 pm

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Sick means the same as "rad" did. I haven't heard anyone use it in years. Those type of words don't last very long. Same with "wicked". All have the same meaning - "cool" or "neat".

Actually, "wicked" has a longstanding use in the New England region of the United States. It's used as a superlative, roughly equivalent to "very" or "extremely." For example, someone might say "that maple syrup is wicked sweet," or "it's wicked hot out there today!". It's probably the only place on earth where someone might reverently say, without any sense of irony or blasphemous intent, "God is wicked awesome!"

I grew up in New Hampshire, and it's been in use there for as long as I can remember.

Guess there's regional variation, because where I'm from "wicked" was used on its own in a similar way "cool!" or "awesome!". This was around 10 years ago.

Edit: sorry about the format before, dunno what happened there

Yeah..we in the mid Atlantic states have used "wicked" that way for a long time. "that toy ray gun has a wicked sound". Such and such is "wicked cool".

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25 Jun 2015, 8:26 pm

A few times on YouTube I posted SOL, or SCROL meaning Scream Out Loud, for when something actually made me do that. Of course I had to post what it stood for.

My mom thought LOL means Lots Of Love until I explained it to her. Good thing too, because it would be pretty upsetting to get an E-mail from her saying something like, "Your grandmother died. LOL"

I heard once on TV that back in the 50's LOL stood for Little Old Lady.

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25 Jun 2015, 8:36 pm

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The very first time I got online and went into a chatroom people were saying LOL. I thought it meant "log off loser" and got offended and left. ROFL.

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26 Jun 2015, 10:59 am

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The very first time I got online and went into a chatroom people were saying LOL. I thought it meant "log off loser" and got offended and left. ROFL.

I remember watching something on the news where they were interviewing people on the street about 'text speak'. A lady (probably around 70 I think) had received a message with LOL in it and got all offended because she thought they were calling her a 'little old lady'. I didn't know that it actually was the acronym in the 50s!

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26 Jun 2015, 1:55 pm

That's interesting about LOL from the 50's! I know a few people who thought it meant Lots of Love (and I've seen multiple texts giving bad news with a LOL at the end...)

This all reminded me of a book I read from the 1800's that used "cool" the way we do today (as in not the temperature, but "neat" or "awesome."). I really wish I'd remembered the title of the book, but it made me wonder about other slang terms and how old they were.

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26 Jun 2015, 2:14 pm

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26 Jun 2015, 5:17 pm

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That's interesting about LOL from the 50's! I know a few people who thought it meant Lots of Love (and I've seen multiple texts giving bad news with a LOL at the end...)

This all reminded me of a book I read from the 1800's that used "cool" the way we do today (as in not the temperature, but "neat" or "awesome."). I really wish I'd remembered the title of the book, but it made me wonder about other slang terms and how old they were.

Agreed. While this doesn't refer to slang specifically, you might find it interesting:

TV TROPES - "Older Than They Think"

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26 Jun 2015, 5:26 pm

conundrum wrote:

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That's interesting about LOL from the 50's! I know a few people who thought it meant Lots of Love (and I've seen multiple texts giving bad news with a LOL at the end...)

This all reminded me of a book I read from the 1800's that used "cool" the way we do today (as in not the temperature, but "neat" or "awesome."). I really wish I'd remembered the title of the book, but it made me wonder about other slang terms and how old they were.

That's interesting that you read "cool" used that way in a 19th Century book.

In the forties the latest big band music was called "hot", and then the next wave of jazz was called "cool" (because it was more cerebral, or down tempo). So I always had the impression that it was in that post war bebop era that "cool" came to mean anything "cutting edge" or "hip". But you're saying that a victorian era book was using the expression long before the mid 20th Century.

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26 Jun 2015, 5:31 pm

From the 1800s, I've seen "cool" used as a synonym for "calm" or "lackluster."

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26 Jun 2015, 10:18 pm

I adopt to it & start using the new slang so I don't think it's jank.

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27 Jun 2015, 6:25 am

Totes, bro. Slang on the internets is just so tryhard.

Yes, I actually hate it too. Btw they were using 'totes' when I was a teenager.

One word I would like to destroy in hellfire is 'hipster.' Hipster's a pretty old word but these days it's the most f***ed up subculture. It's meant to be ironic but why are so many young guys dressing that way? It's emo meets indie kid meets homeless bum on the street who has a beard like Ned Kelly.

I'm suprised 'tryhard' has come back. That was the elementary school word for poser. Then once you enter highschool it's poser and fake. Now gamers like to throw 'tryhard' around.

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27 Jun 2015, 6:28 am

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One word I would like to destroy in hellfire is 'hipster.' Hipster's a pretty old word but these days it's the most f***ed up subculture. It's meant to be ironic but why are so many young guys dressing that way? It's emo meets indie kid meets homeless bum on the street who has a beard like Ned Kelly.

Just like misuse of the word "literally," "hipster" no longer makes sense. If these people were truly hipsters, they wouldn't so easily be alike. They'd be doing things to appear to be different for the sake of feeling superior.

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27 Jun 2015, 6:29 am

kraftiekortie wrote:

From the 1800s, I've seen "cool" used as a synonym for "calm" or "lackluster."

You've been around since the 1800s???

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27 Jun 2015, 3:16 pm

HighLlama wrote:

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Just like misuse of the word "literally," "hipster" no longer makes sense. If these people were truly hipsters, they wouldn't so easily be alike. They'd be doing things to appear to be different for the sake of feeling superior.

Don't things like this keep "coming around" every few years? A few people start "being" a certain way (dress, attitude, etc.) and it's "cool" because it's "new and different." For a while, it is distinct, then others jump on the bandwagon. Next thing you know, it's the latest "trend" for everyone to follow...and the distinctiveness is gone and it's just another fad.

One can only speculate why some seem to stick around longer than others....

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