Posted on 02/11/2006 6:14:22 AM PST by JusticeTalion
NEW YORK (AP) -- Groovy is over, hip is square, far out is long gone. Don't worry, though -- it's cool.
"Cool" remains the gold standard of slang in the 21st century, as reliable as a blue-chip stock, surviving like few expressions ever in our constantly evolving language. It has, despite the pressures of staying relevant and trendy, kept its cool through the centuries -- even as its meaning changed drastically.
How cool is that?
Way cool, say experts who interpret words and slang for their messages about society.
"Cool is certainly a charter member for the slang hall of fame," says Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University professor of popular culture. "Cool just sits back and keeps getting used generation after generation and lets the whole history of the language roll off its back."
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As a wordsmith, thought you might find this interesting.
"Hubba hubba, 23 skidoo,oh you kid, the cats pajamas" and the ever popular "she'a a real doozie"
Thanks for posting this. Justice Talion, you're a reet, voot, gone hepcat--a solid sender who is in the groove and hep to the jive.
OR, "Awesome, Dude!"
Re: 'They use to use "the business" on 'Leave it to Beaver' a lot. Like: "Gee, Beav! Don't wear that! You don't want the guys to give you the business"...'
Hate to give your biz the bum's rush, but as to your source, there was not too much 'Hardboiled Slang' on "Leave it to Bever." They didn't give much Chinese squeeze to the clubhouse. They just got their Mouthpiece to give their Mob the Skate! Duck soup, eh?
8^)
But 'Biz' should have been included...
Rticle says "chill" didn't pass the tect of time. I beg to differ. "Chill out, dude!" is still in common usage. I'm partail to "copacetic" myself but then again, I'm a square cat.
The new "My Bad" saying drives me crazy for some reason.
This article is the cat's pajamas.
I love the slang of the 1930's, back when a real man would fall for a swell-lookin' dame and go sappy.
Paris Hilton ruined "hot" for the rest of us.
Those expressions were popular around 1930, right?
Dude doesn't know what he's talkin about. Of course, maybe he's really a chick.
When I was in college in the early 70's, a gal might smack ya upside the head if you called her a chick.
;>)I think I just got the business...
My favorite Uncle, now deceased, used that term way back in the late 50's and he used it the same way people still do.
I don't recall anyone else using it until maybe the movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".
I had a guy from England on my crew back around 1993 who used the term "sweet". I had never heard it before but within a couple of years it was popular.
"Cool" has been in the language so long that it's no longer slang.
Bitchin'
You know, I went to elementary school in Queens NY, during the early 7O's, and you could certainly still hear those expressions being used. I always thought that perhaps because some of the kids had older parents, that type of slang carried over.
I remember one of my favorite expressions of disbelief was "Oh, baloney...", which did not go over well when I moved to the Wash DC area for junior high school.
I had two great uncles who were brothers and growing up in the 1930s, they both called each other 'Dude.'
My Father said they were called the 'Dude Brothers' by their family and friends!
Don't be a 'Bunny!'
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