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)

My wife and I were trying to come up with other slang that has held up like this for basically 100 years. Couldn't come up with any.

O.K. started off as weird-ass trendy slang thing in the 1800s but now is just a straight up regular word. But cool is just...cool.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Non-native speaker here, most phrasal verbs sound like slang to me, because they just pick a verb that kinda resembles the action but isn't quite it, and you use your imagination to give meaning to it... like "hang out".

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