0:25 I laughed way too hard at the idea of a grandma smiling at her phone while saying "my daughter is very mid"

@jj-if6it

Жыл бұрын

I must be old cause I've never heard it!

It’s so difficult for these KZread channels. They never know when people want a long video or a short one. Something like this, which has caught our interest should’ve definitely been longer at least have a part 2 coming soon.

@Melancthon7332

Жыл бұрын

I think Wired probably tests the waters for new potential series with short ones like this, if it gets lots of views guaranteed they'll be back with more (and probably in that 12-18 min sweet spot).

This needs to be a longer series. So many words they did not touch.

@tjn0110

Жыл бұрын

No cap brah.

@brookenjonas

Жыл бұрын

Knowing how other language-related videos have gone down on this channel, it’ll happen.

@Melancthon7332

Жыл бұрын

These two have a language podcast that talks about slang a lot

@notit7282

Жыл бұрын

And I wonder if Wired can make a 5 Levels episode on linguistics! Sociolinguistics is always fascinating without being too alienating because it's about language phenomena we can observe on a daily basis. It's also very much an interdisciplinary field, where discourse analysis can extend to AI chatbots (what makes a conversation a conversation), and code-switching multilingualism, accents, dialects, all of which also highly relevant to cultural and racial discussions. That is not to say other branches of linguistics are boring or irrelevant; sociolinguistics is, in my opinion, simply more approachable to a wide audience of different backgrounds and interests. Happy to be proven wrong though (imagine an episode on constructed languages!)

@joshuataylor3550

Жыл бұрын

They could do regions, at least in the UK.

why are they talking as if they are promo hosts for a corporate event?

@quirkyviper

Жыл бұрын

Now that you mention it... it kinda reminds me of those informercials for like 14 CDs for 7 cents plus shipping and handling, lol.

@crazymusicchick

Жыл бұрын

@@quirkyviper lol that reminds me of who's line is it anyway?

@miss1of2

Жыл бұрын

They probably aren't used to read of a teleprompter....

@onkelpappkov2666

Жыл бұрын

"Sometimes the meaning of words can change over time but one thing that's here to stay is our exceptionally strong partner, Alliance." "Yea, with Alliance, you know that even if things aren't 'rad' or 'lit' anymore, you'll always be 'safe'." "They've certainly got your back. Now let's find out what the street youths have to say about insurance and how it fits their 'credo', here's our speedy street reporter or 'rep', Gordon Williams." [Transition]

@catherinesmitko

Жыл бұрын

because they're linguists and probably not very often in front of cameras so they are a bit stiff

One thing I wished they talked about is slang terms being used ironically once they are no longer cool

@lolkayleen2757

Жыл бұрын

yess like *slay* at first it was cool and then it was weird and very millennial and now it’s cool again at first it was used ironically and now I think it’s mostly unironic and just playful

@OGKillercaptain

Жыл бұрын

💯

@Melancthon7332

Жыл бұрын

I hear people use YOLO all the goshdang time but always with a huge slab of irony

@sophcw

Жыл бұрын

yeah i never stopped using YOLO because even after it became mainstream i just found it a funny thing to say

@Neverender6

Жыл бұрын

Yes and also the opposite, where a word is first used ironically and then becomes normalized. I remember as a kid when my friend group first heard the word "sick" being used as a synonym for cool, we all thought it was stupid and would use it jokingly in a really exaggerated way, but then after a while we were using it completely seriously, like "yo that's actually sick". Haven't heard it much lately though.

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!

@EnigmaticLucas

Жыл бұрын

Use in registers higher than the extremely informal one

@lynnenewell2016

Жыл бұрын

Hasn't been around that long?! Puhleez! I've been using cool all my life and I'm old dude.

@lynnenewell2016

Жыл бұрын

@@EnigmaticLucas you have the grasp of words and their meanings, but remember, one should write at the 8th grade level so all may understand your meaning.

@donaldchasedgc4935

Жыл бұрын

Yep, I'm 71 and still use that word. Most people I know, understand the meaning.

@lynnenewell2016

Жыл бұрын

@@donaldchasedgc4935 we old folks used it. I think it came in with the Beatnik generation in the 50s. What say you?

"Stop trying to make fetch happen. It's _not_ going to happen."

@khalilahd.

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@lynnenewell2016

Жыл бұрын

You win! 😆

The "real thieves, not actors" at 1:45 gave me a double take 😂

@schnellfahren911

Жыл бұрын

Same! 😅

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!

@rof8412

Жыл бұрын

Yes and add in words such as 'awesome', 'totally', 'hella', 'gnarly', 'sweet', 'sick'.

@onlyarham

Жыл бұрын

Ratio bussin etc

@lynnenewell2016

Жыл бұрын

There are so many, it would take years to get through just the 20th century!

@abmindprof

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure they had a time limit they wanted to stay under. In any case, the idea is to show some ways slang works, like rises and falls, and how some can persist, not list the words. They could have come up with plenty of other examples but they'd only be repetitive in terms of the points they're making.

@FionaEm

Жыл бұрын

"OMG, that's, like, totally tubularrrrrr" 😂 I'm Australian but loved the Valley Girl vernacular ☺️

I was born in the 60's and grew up hearing my dad say "lets blow this joint" when he wanted to leave. To this day i still occasionally say it and the other day my teenager's friend thought i was talking about smoking a joint when i said "let's blow this joint" because i was tired of being at the mall 😂🤣 When we got in the car he said to my son, is your mom literally going to light up a joint?? I heard my kid say, "naw, blow this joint is old people for let's leave this place"

@itskindofemily

Жыл бұрын

I love the "lets blow this ___" haha

@chairwood

Жыл бұрын

ahahah that's great

@cloudbrooks

Жыл бұрын

my parents and family say a lot of old stuff, i gather, looking at these comments! im surprised to find that out... it makes me think maybe california uses older slang? or at least the part im in? cause slang that a bunch of comments is calling old is just stuff people say around me lol

@RogerSteinbrinkh2oBrother

Жыл бұрын

"Let's blow this pop stand."

@onkelpappkov2666

Жыл бұрын

Let's blow this hobo, guys. What, come on, it'll be fun. Y'all are some scaredy cats. Sheesh, man.

This felt like a video the substitute would have made us watch in middle school.

@lonesucculentradio6225

Жыл бұрын

I lol’d thank you

Kids here in Brazil started using cringy, like the actual English word, same meaning and all. I thought that was really cool, cause I could use that word in both languages. But then old people found out about this, and for a week on daytime TV and Buzzfeed like sites there was "what is cringy?" , " The new word young people are using to describe us", "are you cringy?" tests. The situation was indeed, very cringy. And the word instantly died

Fun fact about the word "booze", George Washington had a dog named Boozer, as well as other dogs Tipsy and Drunkard.

@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Thomas Jefferson had a dog named Stoner, and Abe Lincoln had a dog named Crackhead.

@creativekloud9223

Жыл бұрын

@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 😂😂

We need more academics studying gen-z culture unironically, its really funny to me

@missheniki

Жыл бұрын

As an academic, I can tell you that there’s a lot of stigma around contemporary or ultra contemporary fields (in literature, which is my field, for example). If it hasn’t yet stood the test of time, it’s not considered scholarly. How can you determine the hallmarks of a generation (lit, film, linguistics, culture) when they are still being defined?

@cereyza

Жыл бұрын

most gen-z culture is just black culture but bastardized

This would have been more fun if it was less scripted.

@itskindofemily

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts too 🗿🗿

@saxrendell

Жыл бұрын

totally agree, i was expecting a more podcast-style discussion

@luciakobza

Жыл бұрын

Yessss it was very awkward

It seems like slang terms that came along before the social media era, are the ones that stay popular. Social media is a place people try to amplify themselves. What better way than to use the newest words and phrases. Before social media, it took words longer to be picked up by the mainstream. They didn’t get played out as quickly and eventually became standard words.

This is my first time hearing about "cheugy", be then again I am a millennial

@sketchur

Жыл бұрын

Same... Never heard of it, and I don't anticipate hearing it again after this video. 😆

@joshuataylor3550

Жыл бұрын

Just glad I have friends my age.

@imageignition23

Жыл бұрын

@@sketchur fuxk yeah, fuxk chewy, fuxk words

This is kind of uncanny valley between scripted and banter. Not really working for me

Yeah I love this; hopefully it becomes a series

great video. would love to see more linguistics

bruh that bit of a son and his grandma dissing on his mom calling her mid made me laugh way more than it should

Why do I feel like I just took a corporate learning module on my first day as a parent? 😂

"How do you do, fellow kids?" vibes

Love these kind of videos very interesting

Liked the video and topic but you guys gotta drop the morning talkshow vibe and set

I was hoping for Eric Singer

@sam_ram

Жыл бұрын

Same here

Linguistics is fascinating & there’s so much information that one short video couldn’t come close covering a fraction of it. I feel like this video fell short though; & it didn’t help it was evident it was scripted. I was bored but I pushed through the video in hopes of more knowledge. I think this video should’ve been longer like some of the other videos on the channel. Then again, maybe other linguists would be nice to feature on the channel with more slang.

@itskindofemily

Жыл бұрын

Yesssss this!!! I was bored half-way through. It felt like a uni presentation because of all the script reading

@Sumaiko

Жыл бұрын

@@itskindofemily Agreed, & some of it felt so forced! Hoping for another video on linguistics & with different hosts

I will forever acknowledge this channel with the help of your lessons and ideas explanations, Now It's quite helpful while you'll just sit at your comfort and monitor your account Growth

@rachaelanderson7044

Жыл бұрын

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@rachaelanderson7044

Жыл бұрын

1.Crypto 2. Stocks 3.Shares

@oscarwalsh6495

Жыл бұрын

Am interested in learning a new strategy

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Жыл бұрын

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@rebeccagameraja7707

Жыл бұрын

He is a crypto guru and has handled my trade for over three months now, I made over $47k in my first two weeks of investment with him.

This was super, hah, cool. More please!

I was hoping this video would be longer. 🥺

"See you next time" this means there'll be more parts? Yes please!

@Lincolnator721

Жыл бұрын

Yaaaass

i have never seen two people have less chemistry

@Dazt4r

Жыл бұрын

I feel like what’s you’re seeing is two linguists interact with each other, ironically an inherently awkward situation given both of them are absolute dorks.

@realtalk6195

Жыл бұрын

The lady was way too exaggerated in her mannerisms. Seemed like she should be teaching preschoolers, but too the rest of us it's kinda cringe.

@coconutty030

8 ай бұрын

actually they cohost a podcast and it’s great!! it’s probably just because academics aren’t used to being on camera :/ also, as a linguistics major: yes we’re all nerds, no we aren’t all inherently awkward

"Tsugi/Chugi" is a Filipino slang term initially mostly used by the female and LGBT population that means "dead/deceased" and was used long before 2013. "Cheugy" really sounds and means similar to that.

These two folks are really wonderful and kind. Both are on twitter and love to have folks say hello. Cool stuff here

more, please!

Great video, loving the Queen's English IPA transcriptions

Would love to see a breakdown of thieves’ flash patter

Ooh, I like hearing "we'll see you next time." I love this kinda thing.

My favourite modern slag word is *YEET.* Like the "on fleek" example, it also started on Vine. It can be used to add some manic gen-z-esque energy to any situation.

@nicoleisom2920

Жыл бұрын

Yeet is my favorite too. It just works so well in context and puts the right emphasis on everything that follows and it's really fun to say. I feel like it'll stick around for awhile.

I would like to see them covering some of the computer user Language phenomena. Languages like L33t, LOLcat, the Tumbler punctuation free rhetorical type... Things like that that are mostly text based but are sometimes used verbally.

Funny, when she talked about cringe is where I stopped the video realizing this is too cringe

@rainespells1273

Жыл бұрын

Same when ‘brands why do they have to ruin everything’ and the most liked comment is about how this feels too corporate lol

I feel like a lot of this stuff is just AAVE that gets popularized and then overused/misused when ppl don't actually understand what context the word should be used it (ex. Bussin)

@sam08g16

Жыл бұрын

So uh what does crypto have to do with it?

Cool topic

I don't know why, but this part gave me major, "How do you do, fellow kids", vibes!?!?(0:22-0:28)

YOLO? You Obviously Love Owls

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" 😆

@Melancthon7332

Жыл бұрын

That one's been around since the beatnik era (at the very least). Always love hearing it in the wild!

@itskindofemily

Жыл бұрын

I use kosher and I'm 22 🥹🥹 probs the shows I watch lol

@AttnDefDis_

Жыл бұрын

Well, at least you're teaching her a thing or two.

@char6081

Жыл бұрын

What does kosher mean?

@Beaneabean

Жыл бұрын

@@itskindofemily Us 20-somethings arent young anymore 😭

Never heard cheugy

I like “gauche” (bruh, not bringing an adi to the potluck is too gauche) and “quaff” (that hamster is my hero after he quaffed 21 equivalent hamster sized bottles of vermouth before breaking in to the cage next door full of hamster babes and for fornicating with all of them multiple times. Have you ever danced with the devil under the full moonlight?).

Gotta love a Donna Jo reference!

Thanks for the interesting video 🤍

@06:37 ... I see "Cool" was soooo cool in the late 1940s that it managed to travel backward in time and achieve triple coolness a few years. LOL

Parents: If you don't want your child saying swear words/other trends, just start saying them yourself! It won't be 'cool' anymore. Let me know if it works

please protect these two at all costs!!! Jesus, I love them so much and their personalities really stand out amongst KZread cut/copy personalities.

I love how the comments on this video are just pure slang and you can’t tell if people are being serious or not

Love this video already 😂💜

This video is the real “bees knees”.

I lived in an isolated mountain region of the southwestern United States since my birth in 1996. 6 years ago, I bought my 1st smart phone & I am still learning about many new slang terms used outside of where I grew up. Now, on my digital notebook, I keep an updated list of new terms that city people use every passing year 😅😅.

i loved this video! still miss erik singer though!

This video finna slap, no kizzy!

If this becomes a series, I'd love to see Kory Stamper. I miss Merriam-Webster's "Ask the Editor" days.

The on fleek vine was archived Partially Because of the audio

fleek was just a mutation of "flicky" which is old school chicago slang

"Man, watch out for Steve. He's always such a DULPICKLE!" :D I'm pretty sure there's a dulpickle/"dill pickle" joke here, but it's late and I'm tired and it didn't just out immediately.

I'd never thought of the word cool as cool

The origin of "cool" is pretty wizard!

Love this

The editor really came after dr Phil huh

More videos with Nicole, plz! She has awesome on-screen charisma.

@annaSHRRR

Жыл бұрын

She sounds like she’s promoting mlm 😭😭

What about the words WEED & GRASS which are still used today to refer to Marijuana.?

more of these please! fill my brain with the history of the ridiculous language that is English

@aclark903

Жыл бұрын

#Chaucer

Katie Curic out here catching strays

Cool will never go out of style. It's immortal.

Looking sharp or tight is one I remember

My high school English teacher put this on 💀

"Then cool lost its popularity" yeah thats when coral came in

I still use yolo my fav

Nicole (Dr. Holliday) killing it

I really like this, but the set needs to be made a bit more casual maybe. It looks like a business HR training video.

Cheugy sounds like "chunty" with kinda means the same thing, Latinos in LA have been using it for a long time

@NellieKAdaba

10 ай бұрын

Great to know.

Yolo has never left, really most of these are still used, just with a twinge of sarcasm

Nice vid with some good content, but to be honest, I feel the conversational nature of this video seemed forced and dragged it out a bit.

The Strokes said "You Only Live Once" way before Drake did in 2005 with their single.

When is next time?

Officially requesting "funk"!

Groovy needs to return.

This is the year of “fetch”

"Cool. Cool cool cool." Stop breaking the 4th wall Abed!

You gotta imagine "on fleek" was used in social circles before it slipped into Vine. For linguists, saying it was "coined" at that moment seems ... naive.

@mistermet214

Жыл бұрын

My students were using it around 2010 (in Chicago).

I have never in my life heard "cheugy"

This video was so radical!!! So fetch!

1:20 If I may: Smooth brain

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.

@sloth6480

Жыл бұрын

O.o huh?

@tadiospdo

Жыл бұрын

@@sloth6480 I see it can sound bizarre, since the word is pretty ordinary. But what I mean is that applying the ideia of coolness to a person or kind of behavior has, as much as Thompson can support it, a determined cultural significance, especifically an aesthetical one, which is expressed in some black African sculptures and textures and in jazz and rap, in the USA's context.

@sloth6480

Жыл бұрын

@@tadiospdo ahhh I think I get it. I was just confused because English isn't my native language and there were a lot of large words I don't usually see paired together.

@quirkyviper

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for my next rabbit hole!

@merrymachiavelli2041

Жыл бұрын

I mean, maybe, my experience is that the type of 'evidence' produced by art historians, literary critics, and more...er...philosophical social scientists is mostly case studies/ethnographies, as opposed to the type of research that might ever lead an author to come a conclusion other than the one they were broadly expecting. But I'm hopelessly jaded. I could be maligning him.

Why is this like an infomercial

"Played out" or "played" Is an NYC hip hop slang. "cool" refuse to die since the jazz age. I believe that it's still around because it's also used in place of "alright" or "acceptable".

The slang you guys are talking about are still used til this day.

Is that a real, functioning, overhead projector in the background? I haven’t seen one of those for some time.

Funny to see such squares making a video about this topic.

More please!

Wish 5hey would include a link to online versions or a place to purchase the books they allude to.

"Through history" and by history we of course mean the most recent 10 years