Posted on 10/30/2025 11:52:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Regardless, it has meaning both in the Lewis Carroll poem AND in modern conversational English.
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
If you have actually read Through the Looking Glass, you know that those seemingly nonsense words all have meaning; Carrol kindly defines them for you, the reader (indirectly, through the character of Alice).
Again, "6-7" conveys no meaning. As a middle-school kid what "6-7" means. You'll get either a blank stare, or self-referential babble.
‘Smog’ is another made-up word, combining smoke and fog...it was created in the early 1900s.
Look at the pictures in the OP. Those boys are babbling “Six Seven huh huh huh” repeatedly ... but their minds are empty. It doesn’t mean anything. It was never meant to mean anything. If you can get them to turn their brains back on for a moment, they’ll even TELL YOU it doesn’t mean anything. It’s nothing like Lewis Carrol’s seemingly silly poetry.
It’s meaningless babble. Gibberish. Blather. Drivel. Brain rot.
Snark was a pure invention. Eventually ‘67’ may become a word carrying a meaning.
Language is never static, especially one put together from and infiltrated by other languages as modern English is.
It is unlike the repeated utterance of "six-seven" which conveys no meaning and is not intended to convey meaning.
86 means to reject, discard, or cancel.
73s means “Best Regards” for ham radio and shortwave enthusiasts.
Eventually ‘67’ may become a word carrying a meaning.
Perhaps. Or perhaps not.
In any case, it was not invented to convey meaning (it does not convey the literal meaning of the numbers). It does not now convey any meaning.
I know what you're trying to do here, and it just doesn't work. Coining a word or phrase to convey a meaning (even fictional) is entirely different from uttering sounds that convey no meaning and are not intended to convey meaning.
I know about 73s; but how did 86 come to be chosen to carry that meaning?.
But what about three and nine?
You mean what the Gators record will be this year?
Teenagers have always had fads, and the fads have often been ridiculous and meaningless.
I think what I see you trying to do here is to suggest that the ‘67’ generation are brainless.
I just don’t think a word fad is the sign of cultural destruction and ‘brain rot’ that you seem to think it is.
There are things to worry about concerning young people, but this one just isn’t high on my list.
You're wrong on that count for the simple reason that I don't suggest ANYTHING of "generations". I think "generation whatever" rhetoric is absolute bullstuff.
I think a "word fad" that literally conveys no meaning is an unusual thing, to say the least ... all of the examples you have provided do, in fact, convey meaning. I expect utterly meaningless babble from babies, politicians, and corporate HR representatives. Children of "middle school age" are usually trying to say something ... which adults might not like. This mindless gibberish is a symptom of a larger problem: television (what's left of it), antisocial media, and government education have all combined to turn their brains off.
You’ve reiterated my point.
You think a silly teenage fad is a sign of brains turned-off.
I think it’s just another stupid adolescent fad which every generation has had. They’ve had nonsense fads forever, regardless of the status of the education system.
They play a game like this and think they’re ‘cool’. And then they grow out of it.
Language is the most mutable, inconstant of the systems we’ve created. It’s not math.
And it’s a perfect plaything for the teenage need to create something all their own - and the more it shocks and alienates the grownups the better it is.
X Æ A-Xii is apparently the legal name of Elon Musk’s son...
I doubt it will ever become ‘hot’, but it sure is unique.
Why is six afaid of seven?
Because seven ate nine.
So it’s either meaningless or they don’t know its meaning and it’s the “word of the year.” Morons.
The “67 kid” is still Carl Yastrzemski, whatever the little kids say.
So, what, Badgers vs. Gators for the Bottom Ten Bowl some Tuesday in December?
Three and Nine was a Roxy Music song and I could never figure what that phrase meant.
LaMelo Ball is 6'7.
Vibe.
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