• newbeni
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      12 months ago

      How do you say that out loud? I wonder if I’ve heard it, just never knew how it was spelt.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        I am not sure how to write the -ent sound with english pronunciation, but here is my best attempt

        “kôm-mâ sâ vâ” with the ^ signifying the soft vowel

  • @[email protected]
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    42 months ago

    ‘Like watching a monkey try to fuck a football’

    ‘About as useful as a wooden dick on a sawhorse’

    Etc.

  • The Real King GordonOP
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    52 months ago

    My dad called rootbeer floats “boston coolers” and called BigBoy’s restaurants “Manners”

    Im trying to keep boston coolers alive.

  • @[email protected]
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    I couldn’t remember the song title Pink Pony Club and called it Hoke Pokey Unicorn the other day… so that

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    “Knee high to a grasshopper” (short)

    “Beyond the pale” (outside social norms, I think. Maybe just strange)

    “Dance maven”

    “I’ll just do that in my copious free time…” (sarcastically, because you are too busy)

    “Copacetic” (it’s all good)

    “Heavy” (meaning important, grave)

    I learned all of these thirty years ago from a man in his fifties. He was full of interesting expressions.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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      The only time I have ever heard the word copacetic and only reason I know it exists is because of a song that probably only dinosaurs and hipsters listen to anymore: Bound For The Floor.

      Other than that, I’ve never heard it used in any context. So I’mma agree that it’s definitely an old person word ( or a pretentious “I’m BeTtEr ThAn YoU” kinda word ).

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      If the question is things “only” old people say, you have to exclude phrases old people say that were repopularized through media.

      “Heavy” (meaning important, grave)

      For example this is a really quotable line from Back to the Future, so kids would pick it up.

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          The strange thing here is that Marty McFly is using the slang “heavy” and Doc Brown doesn’t understand it. Yet the use of heavy to mean “profound, serious” started in Jazz in 1937. So Doc would have grown up with the word, and by the 80’s I wonder if it was really all that popular anymore. McFly is using 50’s slang in the '50s but the guy from the '50s doesn’t get the slang. Maybe because he’s not hip.

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    62 months ago

    “Nobody wants to work any more” or “kids aren’t disciplined anymore”, and “millenials…something something something” to refer to any generation younger than them.