Millennials overuse the word "awesome". It's like the one thing they/we say.
This pizza is awesome. That song is awesome, etc. It totally devalues the word and renders it meaningless.
Gen Z has retarded ebonics slang, like "no cap", "bussin" fr fr", etc.
It should be obvious why that's bad.
Do your part and start incorporating words like rad and groovy into your speech. Tubular is too of it's time and people wouldn't take it seriously. But casually using rad and groovy would become accepted I believe.
We've lost the latitude of language we had in the 90s and earlier to describe things.
Instead, black slang started dominating in the 2000s and has only gotten worse.
Now the only word that isn't ghetto slang that people use is "awesome" or "cool".
Also don't use it in a hipster or ironic way. Just use it like you would normally and people will get used to it.
The only words you may use are the names of Special Zone courses in Super Mario World. https://www.mariowiki.com/Special_Zone#Levels
(Gnarly, Tubular, Way Cool, Awesome, Groovy, Mondo, Outrageous, Funky)
A man of culture
And may I say: fuck most of those levels
Don't have a cow OP.
If you're under 30. Someone like me using the words will have the opposite effect.
Guys our age need to lean the other way and tap into the spirit of grandeur, with words like 'splendid', 'magnificent' and 'remarkable', but also while trying not to seem too gay.
I've been using rad in my daily life for years.
Tubular is one of my favorites
Nice!
I haven't, but it's something I thought about this past year and am deciding to start incorporating that word and others.
If it’s good enough for Bruce Campbell and Earthworm Jim then it’s good enough for me.
"Groovy" and "rad" were outdated even when I was a child. I respect the intent, OP, but disagree that using literal Boomer slang is a solution.
Hey, what's old is new again. Lol
"Rad" will make a comeback if the Invincible cartoon makes it to the end of the comic.
What does Groovy even mean? I only know it from Austin Powers.
It comes out of music. The "groove" of a song, particular jazz, is kind of the rhythm, the feel, the overall impact. You can say "Wow, that drummer is really grooving!" If he's really into the song, really driving, really fitting in. Colloquially, if you're "in the groove" you're doing great, really nailing whatever task you're on, etc.
"I'm in the groove! I just coded a new hit box algorithm I've been stuck on for days!"
"Groovy" really just means "Cool." Often used in a kind of arts or music of visual context. Today mostly used ironically. It's old slang. If I saw a kid wearing some really funky tyedyed shirt or something I might say "Hey, that's a pretty groovy shirt!"
Does Duke Nukem or Doom Guy say "Groovy" at some point??
Ash from Evil Dead does.
Yes, that's who got me started saying it. Also BITCHIN. Later I learned that all his lines were lifted from other pop culture references, but he's still my number one male role model.
Now there is a word we should bring back. Rad is seen as too lame, but 'bitchin'' will annoy all the right people, then try to be reclaimed.
It could do real numbers.
There are 2 ways you can use it, campy like Austin Powers, and then the cool way.
Expected Bruce Campbell. Was not disappointed.
Hail to the
kingchin, baby!It's just a way to express that you like something or think something's cool.
"This song is groovy"
Someone hands you a soda "groovy my dude". It's just like saying "sick" or "sweet"
If you've ever seen evil dead 2 or Army of Darkness, see how Ash (Bruce Campbell) uses it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtyU2PJCk7Y
The radiation zone is at 15 Rads
So you can sound like a stoner hippy? No thanks.
Cowabunga, dude.
I still use slang from decades past but generally try to speak the King’s English
Wicked sick. This is a tubular idea.
("Sick" is also a good one to bring back, especially after the coof, as an F-U to the public health-industrial complex.)
The 90s had plenty of invasion of the language, at least in California and New York.
Yeah, when I looked up 90s slang, I saw that to be the case after I made this post.
I grew up in the midwest and even by midwest standards I had a more traditional childhood, so most of what I watched and heard was from the 80s and earlier despite being raised in the 90s.
I tend to forget that the 90s I experienced was not the 90s a lot of America experienced, that I had more of an 80s childhood in a way.
People think that white kids discovered black music in the 90s, but there was jazz, and a lot of white acts copying black ones. While the black ones were popular, too.
I would say the difference though was people didn't think acting like a ghetto thug was cool until the 90s and 2000s.
I still can't wrap my head around why white people think that black culture is cool.
It's what a middle schooler would say is cool. Brag about yourself, talk like a moron, freak out and try to act tough at any perceived slight, think ignorance is a virtue. It really blows my mind when I see people trying to emulate ghetto stuff and not knowing what cool really looks like. It's like people have a retarded child's idea of what cool is. It's something that truly baffles me.
White people liked things in black culture in the past, like Jazz or the black owned clubs. But it didn't seem like white people were ashamed to be white or wanted to become black. It was like in the 1970s how everyone got into Kung Fu really hardcore. But there was no sense that they wanted to become Chinese. It was just a cool thing that they wanted to do.
How cringy would it be if all the white people in the 70s who were into the kung fu craze started unironically bowing all the time and talking in Engrish, etc.
That's what we have now, more or less.
I think music has always been a vector. The people pushing gangsta shit in the 90s and 2000s were, I imagine, pushing jazz and rock and roll in previous decades. I really only like music that has more of a white people sound: folk, country, orchestral stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juHgQBB2tLU
That is all.
Sweet.
I use “righteous” on occasion. It’s a little bit slangy, but in a way that hasn’t had its meaning flipped like with “sick”.
Holy fuck, I wish I had as much free time as you to come up with retarded shit like this.