Hi Everybody!
One of the things that amazes me as time goes on is how much modern language and slang changes... Now I am most certainly NOT talking about anything we should not be saying as Christians, but what I mean is, for example, the way that the words for something considered to be "socially acceptable to the max" changes.
"Back in my day", my friends and I used to say, "Cool!!!" and not much else, to tell you the truth (but what can I say, I wasn't one of the "cool" kids to begin with!)
Nowadays, I hear things like, "Sweet!" "True dat!" "Somebody's trippin'!" and "You're golden!"
A few months ago I was talking with a co-worker who is 25 and he was showing me his in-the-works forearm tattoo. "Just wait, Kim, this thing is going to look SICK when it's done!"
In my head, I was literally translating: "Sick?! The tattoo is going to make him ILL? No, no, Kim, THINK! 'Sick' is the new 'cool'! Word!"
My co-workers LOVE to tease me about the fact that I am totally slang-illiterate... and they say I shouldn't even try to learn. I am pretty much a very plain, generic, suburban-type kid at heart, but one day when I went to visit a good friend of mine (at a correctional facility) who had a very different background from myself, he noticed that I was sitting there looking at everyone else around the room.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Nothing," I replied, trying to put on my toughest-street-wise-sounding voice, and then explained, "I was just making sure no one was mean muggin'".
Well, my poor friend laughed so hard he nearly fell off his chair. And, he sternly told me that I should NEVER, under ANY circumstance... use popular slang to try to sound cool, EVER again, because I'm obviously not very good at it.
Sigh. So much for sounding "hip", right???
How about all of you? What do you think of modern-day phrases, words, and expressions? Any favorites or ones that you consider passe? (In case I'm not expressing myself in modern-enough wording, "passe" would mean the ones you don't like, can't stand, or hope to never hear again.)
Here's to sounding "cool".
One of the things that amazes me as time goes on is how much modern language and slang changes... Now I am most certainly NOT talking about anything we should not be saying as Christians, but what I mean is, for example, the way that the words for something considered to be "socially acceptable to the max" changes.
"Back in my day", my friends and I used to say, "Cool!!!" and not much else, to tell you the truth (but what can I say, I wasn't one of the "cool" kids to begin with!)
Nowadays, I hear things like, "Sweet!" "True dat!" "Somebody's trippin'!" and "You're golden!"
A few months ago I was talking with a co-worker who is 25 and he was showing me his in-the-works forearm tattoo. "Just wait, Kim, this thing is going to look SICK when it's done!"
In my head, I was literally translating: "Sick?! The tattoo is going to make him ILL? No, no, Kim, THINK! 'Sick' is the new 'cool'! Word!"
My co-workers LOVE to tease me about the fact that I am totally slang-illiterate... and they say I shouldn't even try to learn. I am pretty much a very plain, generic, suburban-type kid at heart, but one day when I went to visit a good friend of mine (at a correctional facility) who had a very different background from myself, he noticed that I was sitting there looking at everyone else around the room.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Nothing," I replied, trying to put on my toughest-street-wise-sounding voice, and then explained, "I was just making sure no one was mean muggin'".
Well, my poor friend laughed so hard he nearly fell off his chair. And, he sternly told me that I should NEVER, under ANY circumstance... use popular slang to try to sound cool, EVER again, because I'm obviously not very good at it.
Sigh. So much for sounding "hip", right???
How about all of you? What do you think of modern-day phrases, words, and expressions? Any favorites or ones that you consider passe? (In case I'm not expressing myself in modern-enough wording, "passe" would mean the ones you don't like, can't stand, or hope to never hear again.)
Here's to sounding "cool".
