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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