Stop saying "baller" - Page 7

On December 29 2008 06:57 Chef wrote:

Sometimes when I talk to people, I'll use the actual definitions of words, and then they'll misunderstand me and get completely retarded because they wanted to use their own personal definition of the word. The English language is evolving, but it isn't evolving randomly. It has structure, and everyone you intend to understand you should know what you mean by the word when you use it. You can't just randomly decide this word means this now... There has to be a social event or political reason for the word to have a new meaning. Calling everything baller is just the result of a lot of people not understanding what the word means to begin with. If it catches on that everyone uses it for everything, you'll see the word disappear from common English in ten years like every other meaningless overused word.

On December 29 2008 08:41 Dazed_Spy wrote:
Or you will see it cement itself as a commonly used word like "Cool" and other words similar to it. Of course you cant just randomly use one word to mean something totally different inconsistently, you can however form definitions of already existing words and give them a new meaning, on hopes that this definition will catch on as a popular slang phrase. Over time Slang either dies out or it becomes accepted vernacular of a language. Baller may become the new gay or the new cool, or it may not. Time will tell, not some ranting nerd on the internet.