But I hate that the word "literally" is now used as an intensifier, which means that when you want to indicate that something really did happen, you no longer have a word that means literally. Perhaps "literally-literally"?
i feel that recently i’ve seen people increasingly using “brainrot” in place of “meme”. do you think that maybe some day the latter might become replaced by the former?
I teach American History to high school students and we do an exercise about crazy slang in the 1920s (mostly related to the prohibition movement) and it's so fun to see how ubiquitous slang has been for the entirety of linguistic history, particularly in non-mainstream groups. It's also amazing to see how technology has increased the global tactility of slang? I feel like I share wayyy more linguistic ground with other people my age globally than they could have in the previous generations.
I was actually thinking about the origin of skibidi recently and i realized it started from the tv show The Boys and a Turkish creator "Yas Cengiz"
So Cengiz was making short videos shaking his belly and dancing using a Turkish song by Biser King, that Turkish song had a new remixed version, the video of the song featured a person looking similar to Karl Urban's character from the Boys, Billy Butcher. At the time the boys just released its third season and it was quite viral. I quite like show and it feels wild thinking about how all this went down 3 years ago.
I enjoy the new slang. Welcome it.
But I hate that the word "literally" is now used as an intensifier, which means that when you want to indicate that something really did happen, you no longer have a word that means literally. Perhaps "literally-literally"?
i feel that recently i’ve seen people increasingly using “brainrot” in place of “meme”. do you think that maybe some day the latter might become replaced by the former?
The podcast episode was very fascinating. Great job
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I watched the ted talk lol
I teach American History to high school students and we do an exercise about crazy slang in the 1920s (mostly related to the prohibition movement) and it's so fun to see how ubiquitous slang has been for the entirety of linguistic history, particularly in non-mainstream groups. It's also amazing to see how technology has increased the global tactility of slang? I feel like I share wayyy more linguistic ground with other people my age globally than they could have in the previous generations.
I was actually thinking about the origin of skibidi recently and i realized it started from the tv show The Boys and a Turkish creator "Yas Cengiz"
So Cengiz was making short videos shaking his belly and dancing using a Turkish song by Biser King, that Turkish song had a new remixed version, the video of the song featured a person looking similar to Karl Urban's character from the Boys, Billy Butcher. At the time the boys just released its third season and it was quite viral. I quite like show and it feels wild thinking about how all this went down 3 years ago.