Linguists Explain Slang Trends Through History | WIRED
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Linguists Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer go through the history of some of the most popular slang words ever and talk about not only their origins, but why some of them have gone out of style while others have persevered.
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why are they talking as if they are promo hosts for a corporate event?
Now that you mention it... it kinda reminds me of those informercials for like 14 CDs for 7 cents plus shipping and handling, lol.
@@quirkyviper lol that reminds me of who's line is it anyway?
They probably aren't used to read of a teleprompter....
"Sometimes the meaning of words can change over time but one thing that's here to stay is our exceptionally strong partner, Alliance."
"Yea, with Alliance, you know that even if things aren't 'rad' or 'lit' anymore, you'll always be 'safe'."
"They've certainly got your back. Now let's find out what the street youths have to say about insurance and how it fits their 'credo', here's our speedy street reporter or 'rep', Gordon Williams."
[Transition]
because they're linguists and probably
not very often in front of cameras so they are a bit stiff
It’s so difficult for these RUclips channels. They never know when people want a long video or a short one. Something like this, which has caught our interest should’ve definitely been longer at least have a part 2 coming soon.
I think Wired probably tests the waters for new potential series with short ones like this, if it gets lots of views guaranteed they'll be back with more (and probably in that 12-18 min sweet spot).
This needs to be a longer series. So many words they did not touch.
No cap brah.
Knowing how other language-related videos have gone down on this channel, it’ll happen.
These two have a language podcast that talks about slang a lot
And I wonder if Wired can make a 5 Levels episode on linguistics! Sociolinguistics is always fascinating without being too alienating because it's about language phenomena we can observe on a daily basis. It's also very much an interdisciplinary field, where discourse analysis can extend to AI chatbots (what makes a conversation a conversation), and code-switching multilingualism, accents, dialects, all of which also highly relevant to cultural and racial discussions.
That is not to say other branches of linguistics are boring or irrelevant; sociolinguistics is, in my opinion, simply more approachable to a wide audience of different backgrounds and interests. Happy to be proven wrong though (imagine an episode on constructed languages!)
They could do regions, at least in the UK.
0:25 I laughed way too hard at the idea of a grandma smiling at her phone while saying "my daughter is very mid"
I must be old cause I've never heard it!
One thing I wished they talked about is slang terms being used ironically once they are no longer cool
yess like *slay* at first it was cool and then it was weird and very millennial and now it’s cool again at first it was used ironically and now I think it’s mostly unironic and just playful
💯
I hear people use YOLO all the goshdang time but always with a huge slab of irony
yeah i never stopped using YOLO because even after it became mainstream i just found it a funny thing to say
Yes and also the opposite, where a word is first used ironically and then becomes normalized. I remember as a kid when my friend group first heard the word "sick" being used as a synonym for cool, we all thought it was stupid and would use it jokingly in a really exaggerated way, but then after a while we were using it completely seriously, like "yo that's actually sick". Haven't heard it much lately though.
My question is what does it take for a slang word to qualify as a “normal word”? I’ve always thought of “cool” as a pretty standard word. Didn’t know it hasn’t really been around for that long!
Use in registers higher than the extremely informal one
Hasn't been around that long?! Puhleez! I've been using cool all my life and I'm old dude.
@@EnigmaticLucas you have the grasp of words and their meanings, but remember, one should write at the 8th grade level so all may understand your meaning.
Yep, I'm 71 and still use that word. Most people I know, understand the meaning.
@@donaldchasedgc4935 we old folks used it. I think it came in with the Beatnik generation in the 50s. What say you?
The "real thieves, not actors" at 1:45 gave me a double take 😂
Same! 😅
I was born in the 60's and grew up hearing my dad say "lets blow this joint" when he wanted to leave. To this day i still occasionally say it and the other day my teenager's friend thought i was talking about smoking a joint when i said "let's blow this joint" because i was tired of being at the mall 😂🤣 When we got in the car he said to my son, is your mom literally going to light up a joint?? I heard my kid say, "naw, blow this joint is old people for let's leave this place"
I love the "lets blow this ___" haha
ahahah that's great
my parents and family say a lot of old stuff, i gather, looking at these comments! im surprised to find that out... it makes me think maybe california uses older slang? or at least the part im in? cause slang that a bunch of comments is calling old is just stuff people say around me lol
"Let's blow this pop stand."
Let's blow this hobo, guys.
What, come on, it'll be fun. Y'all are some scaredy cats. Sheesh, man.
"Stop trying to make fetch happen. It's _not_ going to happen."
😂😂
You win! 😆
I really feel like this didn't touch on enough trend words. Yeet, rad, wicked, tubular, tea, etc are more examples I half expected to be touched on but weren't mentioned. Would love to see more on them and other terms though!
Yes and add in words such as 'awesome', 'totally', 'hella', 'gnarly', 'sweet', 'sick'.
Ratio bussin etc
There are so many, it would take years to get through just the 20th century!
I'm sure they had a time limit they wanted to stay under. In any case, the idea is to show some ways slang works, like rises and falls, and how some can persist, not list the words. They could have come up with plenty of other examples but they'd only be repetitive in terms of the points they're making.
"OMG, that's, like, totally tubularrrrrr" 😂 I'm Australian but loved the Valley Girl vernacular ☺️
This is kind of uncanny valley between scripted and banter. Not really working for me
This felt like a video the substitute would have made us watch in middle school.
I lol’d thank you
Fun fact about the word "booze", George Washington had a dog named Boozer, as well as other dogs Tipsy and Drunkard.
Yeah. Thomas Jefferson had a dog named Stoner, and Abe Lincoln had a dog named Crackhead.
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 😂😂
Kids here in Brazil started using cringy, like the actual English word, same meaning and all. I thought that was really cool, cause I could use that word in both languages.
But then old people found out about this, and for a week on daytime TV and Buzzfeed like sites there was "what is cringy?" , " The new word young people are using to describe us", "are you cringy?" tests. The situation was indeed, very cringy. And the word instantly died
We need more academics studying gen-z culture unironically, its really funny to me
As an academic, I can tell you that there’s a lot of stigma around contemporary or ultra contemporary fields (in literature, which is my field, for example). If it hasn’t yet stood the test of time, it’s not considered scholarly. How can you determine the hallmarks of a generation (lit, film, linguistics, culture) when they are still being defined?
most gen-z culture is just black culture but bastardized
This would have been more fun if it was less scripted.
My thoughts too 🗿🗿
totally agree, i was expecting a more podcast-style discussion
Yessss it was very awkward
bruh that bit of a son and his grandma dissing on his mom calling her mid made me laugh way more than it should
It seems like slang terms that came along before the social media era, are the ones that stay popular. Social media is a place people try to amplify themselves. What better way than to use the newest words and phrases. Before social media, it took words longer to be picked up by the mainstream. They didn’t get played out as quickly and eventually became standard words.
This is my first time hearing about "cheugy", be then again I am a millennial
Same... Never heard of it, and I don't anticipate hearing it again after this video. 😆
Just glad I have friends my age.
@@sketchur fuxk yeah, fuxk chewy, fuxk words
Yeah I love this; hopefully it becomes a series
Why do I feel like I just took a corporate learning module on my first day as a parent? 😂
great video. would love to see more linguistics
Liked the video and topic but you guys gotta drop the morning talkshow vibe and set
I was hoping for Eric Singer
Same here
"How do you do, fellow kids?" vibes
Love these kind of videos very interesting
I was hoping this video would be longer. 🥺
Linguistics is fascinating & there’s so much information that one short video couldn’t come close covering a fraction of it. I feel like this video fell short though; & it didn’t help it was evident it was scripted. I was bored but I pushed through the video in hopes of more knowledge. I think this video should’ve been longer like some of the other videos on the channel. Then again, maybe other linguists would be nice to feature on the channel with more slang.
Yesssss this!!! I was bored half-way through. It felt like a uni presentation because of all the script reading
@@itskindofemily Agreed, & some of it felt so forced! Hoping for another video on linguistics & with different hosts
This was super, hah, cool. More please!
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"Tsugi/Chugi" is a Filipino slang term initially mostly used by the female and LGBT population that means "dead/deceased" and was used long before 2013. "Cheugy" really sounds and means similar to that.
"See you next time" this means there'll be more parts? Yes please!
Yaaaass
Would love to see a breakdown of thieves’ flash patter
These two folks are really wonderful and kind. Both are on twitter and love to have folks say hello. Cool stuff here
more, please!
I was watching West Side Story with my niece when one character said "copacetic". She asked me what it meant and my GenX brain said: everything's good, agreeable, kosher, cool". She then asked what I meant by "kosher" 😆
That one's been around since the beatnik era (at the very least). Always love hearing it in the wild!
I use kosher and I'm 22 🥹🥹 probs the shows I watch lol
Well, at least you're teaching her a thing or two.
What does kosher mean?
@@itskindofemily Us 20-somethings arent young anymore 😭
I would like to see them covering some of the computer user Language phenomena. Languages like L33t, LOLcat, the Tumbler punctuation free rhetorical type... Things like that that are mostly text based but are sometimes used verbally.
I don't know why, but this part gave me major, "How do you do, fellow kids", vibes!?!?(0:22-0:28)
Love this
Great video, loving the Queen's English IPA transcriptions
Ooh, I like hearing "we'll see you next time." I love this kinda thing.
@06:37 ... I see "Cool" was soooo cool in the late 1940s that it managed to travel backward in time and achieve triple coolness a few years. LOL
Funny, when she talked about cringe is where I stopped the video realizing this is too cringe
Same when ‘brands why do they have to ruin everything’ and the most liked comment is about how this feels too corporate lol
Cool topic
I like “gauche” (bruh, not bringing an adi to the potluck is too gauche) and “quaff” (that hamster is my hero after he quaffed 21 equivalent hamster sized bottles of vermouth before breaking in to the cage next door full of hamster babes and for fornicating with all of them multiple times. Have you ever danced with the devil under the full moonlight?).
Thanks for the interesting video 🤍
My favourite modern slag word is *YEET.* Like the "on fleek" example, it also started on Vine. It can be used to add some manic gen-z-esque energy to any situation.
Yeet is my favorite too. It just works so well in context and puts the right emphasis on everything that follows and it's really fun to say. I feel like it'll stick around for awhile.
This video is the real “bees knees”.
Parents: If you don't want your child saying swear words/other trends, just start saying them yourself! It won't be 'cool' anymore.
Let me know if it works
I feel like a lot of this stuff is just AAVE that gets popularized and then overused/misused when ppl don't actually understand what context the word should be used it (ex. Bussin)
So uh what does crypto have to do with it?
This video finna slap, no kizzy!
YOLO? You Obviously Love Owls
Love this video already 😂💜
Gotta love a Donna Jo reference!
fleek was just a mutation of "flicky" which is old school chicago slang
i have never seen two people have less chemistry
I feel like what’s you’re seeing is two linguists interact with each other, ironically an inherently awkward situation given both of them are absolute dorks.
The lady was way too exaggerated in her mannerisms. Seemed like she should be teaching preschoolers, but too the rest of us it's kinda cringe.
actually they cohost a podcast and it’s great!! it’s probably just because academics aren’t used to being on camera :/
also, as a linguistics major: yes we’re all nerds, no we aren’t all inherently awkward
more of these please! fill my brain with the history of the ridiculous language that is English
#Chaucer
i loved this video! still miss erik singer though!
Katie Curic out here catching strays
I'd never thought of the word cool as cool
"Man, watch out for Steve. He's always such a DULPICKLE!"
:D I'm pretty sure there's a dulpickle/"dill pickle" joke here, but it's late and I'm tired and it didn't just out immediately.
please protect these two at all costs!!! Jesus, I love them so much and their personalities really stand out amongst RUclips cut/copy personalities.
The origin of "cool" is pretty wizard!
Never heard cheugy
If this becomes a series, I'd love to see Kory Stamper. I miss Merriam-Webster's "Ask the Editor" days.
I love how the comments on this video are just pure slang and you can’t tell if people are being serious or not
What about the words WEED & GRASS which are still used today to refer to Marijuana.?
The editor really came after dr Phil huh
Wish 5hey would include a link to online versions or a place to purchase the books they allude to.
Cool will never go out of style. It's immortal.
The on fleek vine was archived
Partially
Because of the audio
My high school English teacher put this on 💀
When is next time?
The Strokes said "You Only Live Once" way before Drake did in 2005 with their single.
Looking sharp or tight is one I remember
Cheugy sounds like "chunty" with kinda means the same thing, Latinos in LA have been using it for a long time
Great to know.
This is the year of “fetch”
Funny to see such squares making a video about this topic.
Es como el hermano inglés de La Dichosa Palabra 😯
"Then cool lost its popularity" yeah thats when coral came in
Nice vid with some good content, but to be honest, I feel the conversational nature of this video seemed forced and dragged it out a bit.
I still use yolo my fav
I have never in my life heard "cheugy"
I lived in an isolated mountain region of the southwestern United States since my birth in 1996. 6 years ago, I bought my 1st smart phone & I am still learning about many new slang terms used outside of where I grew up. Now, on my digital notebook, I keep an updated list of new terms that city people use every passing year 😅😅.
Dope!
These nimnenogs are so choogey and totally off fleek. I could happily yolo if I never saw this uncool video. Now I feel like I need some booze.
Nicole (Dr. Holliday) killing it
Officially requesting "funk"!
"Cool. Cool cool cool."
Stop breaking the 4th wall Abed!
Why is this like an infomercial
This video was so radical!!! So fetch!
Groovy needs to return.
Is that a real, functioning, overhead projector in the background? I haven’t seen one of those for some time.
Yolo has never left, really most of these are still used, just with a twinge of sarcasm
1:20 If I may: Smooth brain
I was wearing a YOLO bracelet until the end of 2013.
Cool video
The slang you guys are talking about are still used til this day.
"Played out" or "played" Is an NYC hip hop slang. "cool" refuse to die since the jazz age. I believe that it's still around because it's also used in place of "alright" or "acceptable".
"Through history" and by history we of course mean the most recent 10 years