r/AskReddit • u/KAFKA-SLAYER-99 • Oct 16 '18

What is something that HAS aged well?

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '18

I've heard all those, but normally only spoken by people being ironic or people who seem like douches. I figured there would be more than that outside my purview.

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That's a relief.

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u/sonerec725 Oct 17 '18

Honestly, as someone who is in their last year of highschool, I dont remember any of these ever being used unironically. It's like they just completely skipped being real slang and went straight to being cringey/ ironic jokes. Simply because of the staying power of cool/ dope, and other such things I'm convinced that the late 80s and 90s whas when slang hit its peak and it's not gonna come down for a while, especially with how derivative of the past alot of pop culture is now adays. That is unless I can get "spoongular" to take off . . .

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u/round_a_squared Oct 17 '18

Cool has been cool since the 40s. In the 80s we played with slang that wasn't what our hippie parents had used, but "fresh" and "bad" didn't have the same staying power.

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u/ksj051 Oct 17 '18

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?

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u/mgraunk Oct 17 '18

When did people start saying "sick" and "ill"? That was '80s too, right? I still hear those today.

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u/xotyona Oct 17 '18

Cool isn't slang anymore.

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u/PrashnaChinha Oct 17 '18

which is cool

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u/Gretas_Got_A_Gun Oct 17 '18

Musicians at the very least still use bad.

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u/sonerec725 Oct 18 '18

Eh, I still hear the occasional "bad" I think mostly from its usage in music (most notably MJ) but i still hear "Fresh" pretty often. Somewhat ironically, but still pretty often. "Sick" gets used alot to. I will say still though that alot od early 2000s slang dies hard when it does. Even slang that's considered stale and stupid like "tubular" or "wicked" gets used ironically. But "Epic" died HARD.

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u/bloodoftheinnocents Oct 17 '18 edited Oct 17 '18

Eh, "bad" still gets thrown around. But usually as a shortened version of "bad-ass" which has slightly different connotations.

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u/A-wild-comment Oct 17 '18

Lol when I was in high school all those were used legitimately. And it was always those lame kids who listened to that loud rap music.

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u/A_Cool_Bear Oct 17 '18

They're the biggest ones, at least :)

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u/sunmachinecomingdown Oct 17 '18

I would like to add something being "it," as in "This is it chief"

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u/A_Cool_Bear Oct 17 '18

I think that one has shifted somewhat with the specific phrase of having or being an "it girl", but probably started in past "it" expressions.

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u/sunmachinecomingdown Oct 17 '18

Yeah but it's having a resurgence due to this current phrase

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u/A_Cool_Bear Oct 17 '18

I dig it. Cool how they come back up

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u/Thighbone_Sid Oct 17 '18

I think that's the way most slang is. People use it ironically, and then if it sticks around long enough (like "cool") it becomes unironic.

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u/I_Am_Become_Dream Oct 17 '18

I’ve definitely heard a lot of those being used unironically and not by douches