IsaacHock 2:09 Sun Oct 28
Modern Life is 5hit - Semantic Progression
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I didn't know that I was traversing the footbridge between youth and middle age until I had arrived on the other side - now that I am here I find my jealousy of the youth manifesting itself in a hatred of everything they do/say/wear.
With that in mind, I would like to talk about Semantic Progression - the evolution of words. I propose a thread in the following format:-
Tell me about a word which has evolved in usage during your lifetime giving explanations of how it was used when you learned it, and how dem yout have butchered it since. In order to avoid the inevitable Splatt, I will make the first post my first effort...
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IsaacHock
2:09 Sun Oct 28
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Embarrassing - Originally used to describe a demeaning circumstance which caused shame and anxiousness to someone personally involved in the circumstance. It would appear that now it has evolved to mean 'Something that I disagree with'.
Original usage "My wife just posted a photo on Facebook without realising that in the background I was staring at the ambassador's wife's décolletage. How embarrassing"
Modern Usage "Did you see the shoes Kim Kardashian wore to Tyga's baby mother shower? Embarrassing."
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gank
2:11 Sun Oct 28
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Blatant
Sick
Gay
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IsaacHock
2:11 Sun Oct 28
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Is that a contribution or a thread critique?
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Westham67
2:58 Sun Oct 28
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Not the development of a word
But the frequency of swearing has increased for sure, the shit, piss, fuck words are used far more frequently than when I was a kid
I can't recall my Mum and Dad ever using those words, my Dad was from Canning Town and my Mum from Hackney. The odd bleeding or sod , or bloody and that was it
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HairyHammer
5:07 Sun Oct 28
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The word 'like' is now very popular and I think has evolved into a thoughtless noise that young people choose to make several times in every sentence when it is obviously not required.
The word 'Literally' is used incorrectly, the young do not seem to care that it means 'it did' even though they mean 'it could have' or 'almost did happen'.
The word 'sick' is also used by the young to describe how great they think something is and not about someone being or being unwell, which was it's original purpose.
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hammerintheorient
5:27 Sun Oct 28
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'My bad,' sorry if a bit predictable. Like many of these examples, the USA/social media is at least partly to blame. I assume this one 'softens' the fact that the subject has made a mistake or been careless
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Sven Roeder
7:06 Sun Oct 28
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Shame
Was : Regret about your actions causing embarrassment to you and an attempt to put things right
Now : Condemnation of other people. Blaming others for your faults (see Radicalisation)
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Pee Wee
8:35 Sun Oct 28
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Well being anti-semantic I refuse to get involved with this thread
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geoffpikey
8:42 Sun Oct 28
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This thread could become very boring and grumpy-old-man very quickly. After all, I suspect there was semantic progression even within a few brief years of your own youth. It is constant.
Here, to coin a phrase, is my tuppence (see?)
Celebrity (past) - someone famous
Celebrity (now) - someone I have never heard of! Ridiculous!
I think that makes the point.
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Darlo Debs
9:58 Sun Oct 28
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All generations do this......my dad was a big fan of jazz and swing......would raise an eyebrow or two now and possibly a giggle..but i do actually mean the music genres.
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joe royal
10:06 Sun Oct 28
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Racist seems to be the most overused word today.
The real meaning seems to have been forgotten . It’s now just banded around randomly .
“You’re racist towards gingers”
As a side , why do so many idiots end a sentence with lol and not a full stop?
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WHU(Exeter)
10:11 Sun Oct 28
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Not a shift in how they were used and how they are now, but...
"So, you guys" or "you guys" or somebody trying to squeeze the word "so" into their sentences so much that it looks like it's starting to make their head hurt.
Maybe it's just me getting older, but I get a lot angrier than I probably should hearing it.
Walk past meetings on balconies at work and hear those things so often along with 'lessons learnt" thrown in and sometimes think that I could stand there for a good couple hours before one of the fuckwits will say anything of substance.
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angryprumphs
10:12 Sun Oct 28
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Love these old git moaning posts, which totally disregard the fact that every generation has changed the language. Otherwise we would all be taking old English.
Bunch of 'in my day' wankers.
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neilalex
10:18 Sun Oct 28
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Awesome has been utterly corrupted. We do actually need a new word to replace it.
My youth;
'in the cold of the autumn morning the Panzers started their engines, and the bleak air was rent by an ominous and threatening roar. The ground reverberated to the sound of marching men and the pitiless clanking of the tracks.
In their trenches the Russians exchanged glances;gripped their weapons a little more tightly and stared into the low indifferent sunrise, whose thin light heralded the approach of this awesome German machine of war.
Dem yout;
'Went to Five Guys last night and the burger was totally awesome, pissed on Macdonalds'.
Yes, all generations do it, just a pity they picked on such a great word on this occasion.
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Nurse Ratched
10:19 Sun Oct 28
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WHU(Ex)
Yeah that meme's a pain.
However, it will soon be Christmas. Prepare yourself for 'perfect' from advertisers and features writers.
The perfect roast potato.
The perfect gift wrap.
The perfect turkey.
The perfect pigs in blankets.
Nothing is allowed to be merely nice or pleasant.
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Darlo Debs
10:19 Sun Oct 28
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WHU along those lines, "going forward " is annoying. Unless they have cracked time travel, what other option do they have.
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joe royal
10:23 Sun Oct 28
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And just how often do we need to be told to sit back and relax?
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Nurse Ratched
10:24 Sun Oct 28
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"Be careful when walking. Or living. It's been raining "
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JLAP
10:28 Sun Oct 28
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SAVAGE
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Mad Dog
10:35 Sun Oct 28
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Hey you guys. Greeting by the film character sloth from cookies
Hey guys. The intro to the vast majority of YouTube celebrity "its as if someone actually gives a fuck about your opinion" videos
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