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HeadBangaa
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States6512 Posts
December 07 2008 01:42 GMT
#21
"bad"
"sick"
"cool"
"dope"

you're such a square, micronesia. irony is hep.
People who fail to distinguish Socratic Method from malicious trolling are sadly stupid and not worth a response.
PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
December 07 2008 02:46 GMT
#22
Denotations don't change, sure, but in practical usage, connotation/circumstance/culture(colloquialism) reign far supreme than what a dictionary will tell you, I think, no?
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24799 Posts
December 07 2008 02:47 GMT
#23
On December 07 2008 10:42 HeadBangaa wrote:
"bad"
"sick"
"cool"
"dope"

you're such a square, micronesia. irony is hep.

You're implying that this blog somehow implied that colloquial speak is bad. I was merely talking about the amazing speed to which this word evolved, and how it happened so recently.

And for anyone else thinking I was trying to say that you shouldn't 'misuse' words... you are wrong... well mostly anyway.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
blue_arrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
1971 Posts
December 07 2008 02:47 GMT
#24
If you think hard enough, look close enough, and remember far enough, you'll find where it all originated from
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meegrean
Profile Joined May 2008
Thailand7699 Posts
December 07 2008 04:01 GMT
#25
It's also one of Harry Potter's spells.
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DamageControL
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States4222 Posts
December 07 2008 04:36 GMT
#26
On December 07 2008 13:01 meegrean wrote:
It's also one of Harry Potter's spells.
That has a K
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b3tty
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Canada216 Posts
December 07 2008 14:13 GMT
#27
On December 07 2008 13:36 DamageControL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 07 2008 13:01 meegrean wrote:
It's also one of Harry Potter's spells.
That has a K


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Fzero
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1503 Posts
December 07 2008 16:03 GMT
#28
Most of my friends have a thing against "phrases" and common language etc. So I tend to get a lot of abuse when I use phrases that don't mean what I'm referring to.. ie: That's ridiculous! So yeah, I noticed that too, OP.
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Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9110 Posts
December 07 2008 20:12 GMT
#29
Micro do you ever play sc anymore? Come backkkk. I guess you'll have time over winter break, right?!
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24799 Posts
December 07 2008 20:13 GMT
#30
On December 08 2008 05:12 Jonoman92 wrote:
Micro do you ever play sc anymore? Come backkkk. I guess you'll have time over winter break, right?!

I play a bit with scc. Not a ton obviously.
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MamiyaOtaru
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States1687 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-07 23:14:01
December 07 2008 23:03 GMT
#31
Language shifts, but it really irks me when people move away from perfectly usable words and phrases and make up new ones, for example when people say "in actuality" instead of "in reality".

One change I've noticed (or maybe the change is only that I started noticing it) is everyone using as to as a preposition instead of about or regarding. See this paper for oodles of examples: lol yale. It seems to me that I see this more and more lately, but maybe it's always been that way

Oh yeah, another change is people saying "it begs the question" when that has a completely different meaning (that next to no one, including me, understands which is why we simply shouldn't use the phrase), when "it raises the question" would do just fine.

And of course, noone will eventually be recognized as a word, alongside (ironically) retarted and genious. And loose will stop being the opposite of tight and will be recognized as the opposite of win.

I'm afraid I've moved away from talking about semantic drift and into dangerous crotchety old man territory. Maybe I can get it back on track with some historical examples. Next post.
jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6642 Posts
December 08 2008 12:57 GMT
#32
I usually use it in a negative context, such as "dark swarm is fucking ridiculous" or "the Hajj pilgrimage is a ridiculous event"
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