Potential.
- arcade
- breakdance
- sega
- various slurs
radical.
tubular.
bitchin.
hella.Those first were ones I was gonna mention. Those last two are I think a more local dialect…
Buckaroo
Sarsaparilla
Rootin-tootin
Tarnation
Varmit
Just play FNV
Were you a kid in 1820?
Can you say hi to Dutch Van Der Linde for me?
tubular
bodacious
ring-a-ding-dinging (phone call)
far out
phat
Cowabunga dude, totally radical!
Trickle down economics
They don’t have the guts to say it out loud anymore
Everybody used to use the word “clicks” to mean ‘kilometers’ but I don’t think I’ve heard it in years
hope
Quicksand.
Bermuda Triangle.I used to think these would have a greater impact on my adult life.
Ditto.
I’m probably around the same age as the guy who wrote that.
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Edit
The term is newer than I thought. It was created in 1964 and it first appeared in print in this magazine.
It took Vincent H. Gaddis to coin the catch-all phrase that would enter popular culture; his article in the February 1964 issue of “Argosy” [later incorporated into his book “Invisible Horizons”] was titled “The Deadly Bermuda Triangle.”
both those things used to be my childhood obsessions.
then i made quicksand in my yard with a hose and nothing sank in it but it was cool how it instantly hardened when the hose turned off. little green army men survived.
and i was dragged on my one and only cruise straight through the triangle and most that happened as a cool storm where i got to sit in the huge porthole as it repeatedly was lashed with waves. i survived.
most of the vocabulary of multicultural london dialect
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Who I am and what I’ll be, comes from inside me
Who I am comes from my inside out, my character matters
Who I am comes from my inside out, my character counts
Lateral circuit was my first buzzword. No clue what it was ever supposed to mean.
talking about my Wednesday gym routine
sargassum
booty
shiver-me-timbers
buccaneer
The barbary corsairs are less of a factor than i was led to believe in school
Slurs aside,
- blazed (meaning stoned, as in “420 blaze it”)
- pwn
- lamer
- lamesauce
- g2g
- rofl (I find it really interesting that lol and lmao stood the test of time but rofl fell into obscurity…too over-the-top, maybe?)
- brah (as in bro)
- rekt
- noice (as in nice)
- gangsta (as in “that’s so gangsta”)
- ghetto (specifically when meaning scuffed or jury-rigged)
- ratchet
- (a specific term equivalent to cross-faded that I cannot for the life of me remember)
- Macarena
- (A)IM ((AOL) instant message)
- Gchat
- Pogs (not as in PogChamp but as in these guys)
- Toonami
- Psych!/sike!
- Jinx (personal jinx ten! Nice try)
and probably a bunch more dated slang which I’ve memory-holed
slurs aside
Ugh. It can’t be overstated just how pervasive the f-word slur was when I grew up.
jury-rigged
Jerry-rigged actually, and apparently this phrase predates the term “Jerry” used for Germans by a century so no relation
Me and my partner still use “noice” all the time, we’re keeping the flame alive. Whether anyone wants us to or not
psych/sike!
And it’s cousin, not!
Oh shit, that reminded me of another one: talk to the hand!
I feel like brah has increased if anything. Or maybe Im combining it with bruh.
25% of my verbal communication is various forms of brah/bruh/bruv
lol and lmao are quicker to type for more people than rofl on qwerty keyboard. That’s always been my guess. rofl is a little awkward to type
It used to be a composite too, it was often typed out fully as roflmao. That’s what I think actually became lmao over time
Pinch and a punch for the last day of the month
