Ok...let's forget theology, philosophy, and politics for awhile here, and discuss something more down to earth.
What are the origins of some of the more popular past and present slang terms?
I've always wondered about that....maybe some of you more hip and knowledgable folks can enlighten me. After all, they had to start SOMEWHERE!
To name a few....
NOT!!!!!!
Fah-ken aye!!!
Cool
Radical
Groovy
Hip
Don't go there
Far-out
Ok
Just chillin'
Dat be grubbin' (reference to food that tastes good)
I'm sure some of you can add a lot to this list, but this is all that comes to mind at the moment.
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RE: Origins Of Slang
Here's some educated and some not so educated guesses.
NOT!!!!!!
This one could have been started by an anthrax album with the same title in the mid to late eighties.
Fah-ken aye!!!
Some guy named Vinny in MA. started this one in the 70's soon after his wrench slipped while fixing the timing belt on his Camero
Cool
Cool started in the 50's and came from Jazz Players.
Radical
This one is totally So. Cal. 70's. introduced by surfers the saying quickly spread through the Valley and onward like wildfire.
Groovy
Groovy was part of the hippie drug movement and is just an extension of groove. After smoking lots of pot or dropping LSD one might find themselves in a heavy groove, thus being or feeling groovy.
Paul Simon wrote a song about this feeling.
Hip
Hip also stems from Jazz "Hepcat" Hip cat
Don't go there
Madonna
Far-out
Hippie, Far out of the universe, again usually after ingesting heavy amounts of drugs.
Ok
?
Just chillin'
When one is chill, one is cool...cold, get it
Dat be grubbin' (reference to food that tastes good)
Grub=food
Grubbin is an adjective describing the action of eating food, usually used when the food tastes good.
This one was used briefly in the late 80's later replaced with "That's the bomb"
Matt, it sounds like you don't have many black friends.
Nice post though.
Adam
NOT!!!!!!
This one could have been started by an anthrax album with the same title in the mid to late eighties.
Fah-ken aye!!!
Some guy named Vinny in MA. started this one in the 70's soon after his wrench slipped while fixing the timing belt on his Camero
Cool
Cool started in the 50's and came from Jazz Players.
Radical
This one is totally So. Cal. 70's. introduced by surfers the saying quickly spread through the Valley and onward like wildfire.
Groovy
Groovy was part of the hippie drug movement and is just an extension of groove. After smoking lots of pot or dropping LSD one might find themselves in a heavy groove, thus being or feeling groovy.
Paul Simon wrote a song about this feeling.
Hip
Hip also stems from Jazz "Hepcat" Hip cat
Don't go there
Madonna
Far-out
Hippie, Far out of the universe, again usually after ingesting heavy amounts of drugs.
Ok
?
Just chillin'
When one is chill, one is cool...cold, get it
Dat be grubbin' (reference to food that tastes good)
Grub=food
Grubbin is an adjective describing the action of eating food, usually used when the food tastes good.
This one was used briefly in the late 80's later replaced with "That's the bomb"
Matt, it sounds like you don't have many black friends.
Nice post though.
Adam
RE: Origins Of Slang
A lot of slang is just real words slurred together that have "evolved" into their present forms:DD
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RE: Origins Of Slang
I have found that lots of slang is long complicated words that teens have picked up from someplace and continue to say them in front of their friends. Pretty soon they say it all the time, for instance, instead of saying various 4 letter words. radical and bodacious come to mind.
RE: Origins Of Slang
OK came from "All Correct"...A US President (forgot who) can't really spell properly so when checking through papers, he puts OK for All Correct because he thinks it's spelt Ol Korect
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RE: Origins Of Slang
The word "Posh" comes from last century when the well do to English would travel by ship to the colony in India, and the best cabins were "Port Out, Starboard Home" P.O.S.H. !
There you go, a little trivia for you!
There you go, a little trivia for you!
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