You're a LEG-END. Legend pronounced leg end.
Bread. Yes, the word bread. It was quite popular in northern India. We use to call stupid people bread. Like, "Tu bread hai kya?" (Are you bread?)
This was alternative to the word "chutiya", which is a curse word, that we could use in front of teachers and elders.
Going back to real young, no one calls their ass a “heinie” anymore.
Don't hear "house" meaning to destroy something anymore.
Ima house you.
I'm about to house this burrito.
ITT is a bunch of slang words that are still in use.
Nobody says "cool' anymore. It feels weird when I say it unless I'm trying to be tubular or bodacious.
Or I'm hanging with my boys Fido Dido and Cool Spot drinking a nice glass of Sprite.
oooooh, I played a lot of Cool Spot on the megadrive back then. It was fresh
"That's pretty beast" or "Going beast mode"
Some guy decided to make it their identity and ruined it for the rest of us
I once got made fun of at work for using "hella" about something. People are stupid.
Yeah, hella has always been cringe.
The only person I've ever heard say it is Eric Cartman
Calling others gay or disabled as a slur.
Jew got used a lot in my area in a similar way. It's horrible looking back and it got used in a lot of ways, one of the weirder uses was in football/soccer, where doing a sideways pass to a teammate for an easy goal was called 'jew-ing it'.
Also using it for situations of inconvenience. Eg, "The next train is cancelled." "That's fuckin gay!"
I grew up in the 90s, theses were used by everyone all the time. I still use these, even though I don't like to. Though, if any of an excuse, I don't use them to denigrate those disabled or homosexual.
"Retard" is used for any person or thing that is hard to work with, complex to use. Anything complex that takes up a lot time, not simple to use. My oven clock is "retarded" as it isn't intuitive when trying to set the time. I am "retarded" for not taking the time to pull out the manual and learn how to set it after the power goes out.
"Gay" is for anything or anyone that is dramatic, causing a situation or problem when there isn't one. For people who are overly sensitive, who take offense at "sub conscious facial micro aggression" of others.
I grew up beating up the bullies of disabled kids. When I got older, I became a lgtbq advocate and donated time\money to charity that supports them. Am I trying to excuse my behavior by still using these ....?....
Syke. Or psych. Early 90's kid slang, had a definition akin to just kidding or fooled you but more mean spirited. Said to mark the previous statement as intended purely to mess with the listener's mind or psych them out. Similar in spirit to ending a sarcastically spoken sentence with "NOT!" though distinct.
"Yeah man, you can drive my car. Psych! You're not touching my ride."
The more I type about it, the less "psych" looks like a valid English word.
Of course it is. Go rewatch a few episodes of "Psych!" to cure yourself of doubt.
You know I know that you're not telling the truth.
We spelled it "sike". No clue why.
Because it started in grade school, and grade school kids were not aware of the word "psych." So they spelt it how it sounded. Sike or syke, they're both equally incorrect, but the point is the kids who used them were using them correctly.
The only thing remotely weird about it was when they learned the word "psych" and thought they meant two different things (like they don't believe "psyching someone out" is a thing, like it does not click for them).
I had always assumed it was humorously mis-spelling the word. Like people who would spell it "kool".
To add to the confusion: For 2 weeks/year I help out the local ballet studio with stage crew. We have this big white backdrop curtain, and colorful lights are pointed directly at the curtain to make dramatic and moody changes to the background during certain dances. When I heard the name of these, I assumed it was the "psyche curtain" and "psyche lights" because that's how it is pronounced.
Turns out the box is marked "Cyc." I have to assume that the people that sold the curtain are way less amateur than I am, so I would like to add this third potential spelling.
Cyc is short for cyclorama. A way of lighting a backdrop which kind of wraps around a stage, that wrap around effect which lead to the name.
Radical. Tubular. Bodacious. Gnarly. Basically anything a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle would have said.
18 year old daughter just uttered "gnarly" tonight during a horror movie.
We were shocked!
"gnarly" still exists as a word for convoluted or fouled.
Back in the 70s we used to say "fuckin-A" as a kind of agreement
Are you surprised at my tears, sir...?
I still use it....
Me too
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