lauralyrics ([info]lauralyrics) wrote,
@ 2009-03-06 21:05:00
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My boss comes up to me. "Laura, what do people say nowadays when something is cool?"

"Wait, what?" (Which is totally my new favorite phrase.)

"I mean, when I was young, things were 'rad' or 'hip.'"

"Okay..."

"So what's 'cool' now?"

"Well," I said, "obviously not me, because I've always just said something's 'cool.' Observe as I demonstrate the power of blogs by asking all my friends about it."

One of my coworkers has suggested that "money" is the correct adjective. This is based solely upon the title of a young adult novel, and I suspect it's incorrect. (She's so money, what does that even mean?)

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[info]eccentric_hat
2009-03-07 02:55 am UTC (link)
"Cool" is like jeans, it may be a twentieth-century innovation but now it's here to stay. I think "she's so money" means something closer to "she's so rich and fancy" than "she's so cool."

"Hip" still gets used a lot. "Awesome" is, I think, used more frequently and casually than it used to be, though that's not a terribly new development either. How long has "sweet" been used to mean cool? I know it had been in use for a while by the time I entered high school.

I don't know, there's street slang, but in general I feel like this kind of usage doesn't change as rapidly as people imagine it doing.

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[info]gone_shaughraun
2009-03-07 03:30 am UTC (link)
"Bangin" is always one way to go about that...

Always remember, children: better bangin' than busted.

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[info]grimms_creed
2009-03-07 03:41 am UTC (link)
Wait, when did "cool" go out of style? I'm so behind the times....

(in other words, I'm with you on this one)

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[info]the1butterfly
2009-03-08 10:24 am UTC (link)
"Made of win" is my favorite. I also use "awesometastic, but I'm fairly certain I made that one up.

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[info]startrails
2009-03-09 03:46 pm UTC (link)
I've heard "sweet", "sick", the abovementioned "made of win" (though only on the internet), and various phrases that include the word "wicked" ("wicked good", "wicked awesome"...though that may be a regional thing). My favorite has got to be "sick"--way to totally turn the use of a word inside out.

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[info]darkest_light
2009-03-09 07:31 pm UTC (link)
"Wicked" is an adverb on the east coast. The west coast equivalent is "hella."

In England, though, "wicked" means cool.

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[info]darkest_light
2009-03-09 07:30 pm UTC (link)
No matter what it is among teenagers these days, it is vital that adults do not use those terms. It will do nothing but make the teenagers giggle.

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[info]brideofbeowulf
2009-03-11 09:20 pm UTC (link)
"Sick" and "Tight" were popular among the Utah therapy kids and my California trail crew. But cool hasn't lost it's cool yet!

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[info]brideofbeowulf
2009-03-11 09:21 pm UTC (link)
Oh yeah, and "chill" as in "That song is so chill, man..."

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