Hardly. Twitchin’ was early California surfer slang, circa 1964. That’s old.
Alonzo, you realize that you are tilting at windmills here, right?
If I were to meet you, should I expect you to speak like the Cro-Magnons at Alta Mira? Or perhaps like their great-granparents? You would sound much like the hairy guys in Clan of the Cave Bear, right?
I mean Original Speech is Right and Proper Speech, isn’t it? You scoff at those language-torturing Johnny-come-latelies like Geoffrey Chaucer, don’t you?
Dis thread put nuff mile on I and I’s sock. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!1
Booyakashah! Skill! Yo!
Coming next: Somebody pits Ali G. Which was old about 20 minutes after it first broadcast.
You do realize that awesome has been used in this improper way for at least 25 years, right?
What are you going to bitch about next? The way MTV plays that stupid montage with the guy on the moon to that instramental song because they don’t have enough videos to play?
Dunt Da-Dunt Da-Da-Da Dunt!
I think the improper usage is the shit.
Shiznit, not shit.
Daniel
Shizzle!
Peace out, P-Bizzle.
Peace, man! English is, like, all about the fluidity of meaning in words, man. Like, semantic weakening has been going on for centuries, man! Peace, yo!
Well, man, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
California surfer slang? I come from a place where we put toboggans on our heads.
[Jason Jesse] OH my GOSH, the Bowl. INSANE!![JJ]
Heinously, like Gnarly, man. Streets on Fire is a fucking AWESOME film.
I still say most of the trendy things I’ve picked up over the years. Things are still totally tubular (damn you, cricetus, I wanted to be the first to use that!), awesome and totally awesome, most excellent, rad and radical, cool, both far and pharm out, groovy, bitchin’ and twitchin’. Hell, things are still nifty, spiffy, neato and keen. I also will be somewhere directly, or reckon I can do that, or am fixin’ to do something. And, by the way, are you fuckin’ high? Slang, like the poor, will always be with us. Learn to embrace it–love the slang.
If you’re thinking of the movie I’m thinking of, that would be Streets of Fire.
52 posts into this thread and nobody has mentioned the man who made awesome AWESOME, Baby!
I use awesome.
What’s sadder? I use “fab.” “Ooh, that’d be fab.”
Also, “super.” “That’s super!”
It’s sad to be me.
The only word whose meaning I think is worth fighting for is “literally”.
I’m a well educated 31-year old, and I grew up using “awesome” as a synonym for “fantastic”, “good”, “great”, etc. That ship has long since sailed.
You guys swear like this thread is awesome…really though, it’s hella lame. Der OP ist eine lahme Ente. YEAH, lame duck!
I grimace when I hear the words “genius” and “brilliant” bandied about, but the latter isn’t quite as bad considering it appears to be the slang equivalent of “slightly above average” across the pond.
But awesome can peacefully get coopted, as the antediluvian meaning of awesome can easily be invoked with the much less corruptible version, “awe-inspiring”.
This thread is DOPE! (good). It’s completely SICK! (also good).
Just to resurrect this awesome thread, dead since noon,
Some people are easily awed.
I could care more.
RIP
Fair does. Been a while since I saw it. INSANE!