How has your vocab changed?
9 months ago
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Anyways
I was recently telling someone what it meant to spaghetti (the meaning being, doing something awkward or fumbling someone) and got to thinking... what words have permanently altered your vocab? Doesnt have to be memes, but words that just stick with you. I mean like, you started saying this word 5 years ago and still say it...
I will accept phrases that have also lodged in your lexicon. Im just curious :'D
Anyways
I was recently telling someone what it meant to spaghetti (the meaning being, doing something awkward or fumbling someone) and got to thinking... what words have permanently altered your vocab? Doesnt have to be memes, but words that just stick with you. I mean like, you started saying this word 5 years ago and still say it...
I will accept phrases that have also lodged in your lexicon. Im just curious :'D
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"Agita" as slang for stress or anxiety entered my vocabulary due to watching youtubers who are from the east coast, since that isn't slang where I'm from, and I picked up a few southernisms from my boyfriend like calling people "hon" or "darling"
I've almost never used slang of any kind because a lot of it I just don't find necessary or don't know what it means. I do find that I tend to adjust the types of words I use when talking to different people. Using five-dollar words like "eschew" around ordinary people who may not know what that means just made me sound like Sheldon Cooper.
-Sonder: a profound sense of even strangers having permanence outside of your perception
-Grok: to more than completely understand something
I also say "winning" a lot, in the Charlie Sheen voice way.
"Bub" entered my vocabulary at some point as well. Usually in a "sorry, bub" kind of way.
When speaking Norwegian I love to translate titles of media or names of characters into Norwegian.
And finally "slop" has truly entered into my daily vocab as a constant descriptor.
Messing up on things I always say "Damn me."
I know it impresses nobody but me but I do like using bigger words.
Speaking of sunsets, the word for sunrises and sunsets that splay light across mountains (and I suppose skyscrapers) that I found I liked was "Alpenglow".
I initially came across it in Nightwish's "Endless Forms Most Beautiful", a few years after it's release in 2015. One of the songs (not my favorite but still) is titled "Alpenglow" and ever since then, having the name for that visual phenomenon up my sleeve has been helpful here and there.
Another overall phrase that helped me with ocassional depression or anxiety is:
"Everything that that has happened, has already happened". When recalled at rest, this phrase helps one understand that where one is in life is the total sum of everything that has already happened. It does not reference to what will happen, or what could happen, just that your history exists.
For memes I like the old fashioned "People die when they are killed" and "is this a pidgeon?"
Hope this answers your inquiry xD
but language changes over time - and with internet and social media, new slang and terms can enter into popular circulation very quickly.
Whenever someone wants to know who did [anything that winds up being wrong or not what they want] and I know it was me, I always have to say that whoever did it is probably really beautiful and talented and handsome