Linguists Explain Slang Trends Through History
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Date: 2022-07-13
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Comments and reviews: 10
rodyen
It is interesting to see the cool word linked to white culture, after the jazz moment. There is an important art historian, Robert Farris Thompson, who claims, with a respectable amount of linguistic and artistic evidence, that the semantics of cool constitutes an aesthetic and spiritual concept intern to some parts of black Africa, and, by extension, to some America's disporical regions. Maybe, the word persists because it has also some substantial cultural meaning inside black culture.
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It is interesting to see the cool word linked to white culture, after the jazz moment. There is an important art historian, Robert Farris Thompson, who claims, with a respectable amount of linguistic and artistic evidence, that the semantics of cool constitutes an aesthetic and spiritual concept intern to some parts of black Africa, and, by extension, to some America's disporical regions. Maybe, the word persists because it has also some substantial cultural meaning inside black culture.
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Sunny
This was such a boring video. The simulated talkshow conversation format adds absolutely no value to the production or content. The cheesy, horrible jokes are annoying. The _irst three chosen words are basically just it was popular and then it wasnt. This whole thing felt unstudied, uninspired and unoriginal. This felt like a wannabe Vox video.
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This was such a boring video. The simulated talkshow conversation format adds absolutely no value to the production or content. The cheesy, horrible jokes are annoying. The _irst three chosen words are basically just it was popular and then it wasnt. This whole thing felt unstudied, uninspired and unoriginal. This felt like a wannabe Vox video.
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Jansen
I am so sick of the linguistic drift crowd. The only reason that had to happen back in the day was lack of literacy and a fundamental controlling body. NEWSFLASH: EVERYONE CAN CHECK THEIR GRAMMAR AND USAGE NOW. Now that I know shamefaced was just idiots mis-saying shamefast, the word is and will always be shamefast.
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I am so sick of the linguistic drift crowd. The only reason that had to happen back in the day was lack of literacy and a fundamental controlling body. NEWSFLASH: EVERYONE CAN CHECK THEIR GRAMMAR AND USAGE NOW. Now that I know shamefaced was just idiots mis-saying shamefast, the word is and will always be shamefast.
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Brandon
I really feel like this didn't touch on enough trend words. Yeet, rad, wicked, tubular, tea, etc are more examples I half expected to be touched on but weren't mentioned. Would love to see more on them and other terms though!
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I really feel like this didn't touch on enough trend words. Yeet, rad, wicked, tubular, tea, etc are more examples I half expected to be touched on but weren't mentioned. Would love to see more on them and other terms though!
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11
Very out of touch perspective and research on the more modern terms.
On fleek was around for much longer before that.
This sounds like listening to suburban couples discuss things they have no idea about with authority
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Very out of touch perspective and research on the more modern terms.
On fleek was around for much longer before that.
This sounds like listening to suburban couples discuss things they have no idea about with authority
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Zena222
I was watching West Side Story with my niece when one character said copacetic. She asked me what it meant and my GenX brain said: everything's good, agreeable, kosher, cool. She then asked what I meant by kosher
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I was watching West Side Story with my niece when one character said copacetic. She asked me what it meant and my GenX brain said: everything's good, agreeable, kosher, cool. She then asked what I meant by kosher
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Ulvens
Nothing like two boomers telling us what is, and is not IN linguistically. Saying stuff like: Brands, why do they have to ruin everything. I have never even heard the word cheugy. This episode is excess cringe.
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Nothing like two boomers telling us what is, and is not IN linguistically. Saying stuff like: Brands, why do they have to ruin everything. I have never even heard the word cheugy. This episode is excess cringe.
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Fred
a language related video with how many times like. being used inappropriately? It seems that far too many members of the population now have a meaningless filler word. How long before it finally dies off?
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a language related video with how many times like. being used inappropriately? It seems that far too many members of the population now have a meaningless filler word. How long before it finally dies off?
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Dr. ZachMan
Mane, dis so buddy. Dis englich teacher tol me to watch dis video. Im on tictok wit 45M followers NO CAP! Bruh, who deez old people talkin about. Wat dez red linz mean under my words? Fr fr
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Mane, dis so buddy. Dis englich teacher tol me to watch dis video. Im on tictok wit 45M followers NO CAP! Bruh, who deez old people talkin about. Wat dez red linz mean under my words? Fr fr
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CScottyW
My question is what does it take for a slang word to qualify as a normal word? I ve always thought of cool as a pretty standard word. Didn t know it hasn t really been around for that long!
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My question is what does it take for a slang word to qualify as a normal word? I ve always thought of cool as a pretty standard word. Didn t know it hasn t really been around for that long!
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