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My parents were Groovy, I was rad, and my daughter slayed, but the word cool is always cool. (lemmy.world)
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It's like cool has unofficially been accepted by multiple generations to be the template by which all other trendy words are cut from.

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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Capital -> Dandy -> Swell -> Keen -> Groovy -> Rad -> Slayed (although I'd have picked Bussin').

I wish I knew more going back even into the nineteenth century. I recently read the Arsene Lupin books (1905), and although that's French translated to British English, I found the slang charming. Although I think cool was only used in regards to someone being calm and controlled...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    have you read much P. G. Wodehouse? It took me a chapter or two for my brain to adjust to the nineteenth century literature but that guy turns a phrase like nobody else. uses the same plot a lot, but it doesn't matter because you always like the way he says it.

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