• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    I had this conversation with one of my kids recently:

    Her: “This thing is gas!”

    Me: “Gas? Why are you talking like your grandpa in 1965?”

    Her: " What are you yapping about? They don’t know what ‘gas’ means!"

    Me: "You wanna bet? Ain’t you ever heard that Rolling Stones song? Jumpin’ Jack Flash, it’s a gas…?’

    Her: “Bruh…”

    Me: “Don’t shoot the messenger.”

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      In the 90s, when everyone started using the word fat/phat, I found out from an article that it’s usage that way could be traced back to 1920s jazz musicians. Everything old is new again.

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        10 months ago

        I always thought the word “ginormous” (a portmanteau of gigantic and enormous) was totally modern, but then I read a book published in 1943 by a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot which had “ginormous” in its glossary section.

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      10 months ago

      Me looking at this meme nearing 40…“pretty sure we used sus and fire as teenagers”.

      Then again I didn’t grow up in USA and we had different “hip” words.