So THAT'S where the word "meh" came from. I picked it up off my sister a while back. She's never watched the Simpsons either, so I have no idea where she got it from.
A LOT of words and phrases have come from The Simpsons. The show's been running since 1989 and it's still going, making it the longest-running TV show in history. It's therefore not surprising that many folks (myself included) use phrases from The Simpsons without knowing that's where they came from, since they've become part of the general lexicon (same with Star Trek and Star Wars).
It is the longest running American sitcom, the longest running American animated show, and the longest running American scripted primetime show. But yeah, there are a bunch of other shows -- daytime soap operas, talk shows, and news shows especially -- that have been on longer. I believe Meet the Press is the current champion, having run continuously since 1947.
I mean... good for Coronation Street, As The World Turns, and Guiding Light, but I somehow doubt any of them introduced any words or phrases that have gone on to enter the common lexicon! :-)
I don't think it made the dictionary, but "malparkage," referring to parking one's car terribly or illegally, is my favorite Simpsonism, among many great ones.
@ cyclonus that wasn't the point though- the point was the utter disrespect to call the simpsons the longest running programme in history! Corrie is a national treasure and deserves better than to be snubbed like that
(please know I'm only teasing, but I am also deadly serious xD)
Got everything but wag, which I had never heard of. I looked it up, I get that it's an acronym for "wives and girlfriends", read about the origin on Wikipedia... and I still don't understand why it only applies to the wives and girlfriends of athletes. Why are all other wags not wags?
I'd never heard the word until I saw it on this site so I wondered if neologism was also a neologism, but according to Merriam-Webster the first known use of the word was in 1772.
I find it interesting that cavemen communicated by drawing pictures on their cave walls. Eons later we are again communicating with pictures, only we call them emojis. :)
This quiz sadly reminds me how stupid the world is getting. Mindless slang is taking over, terrible diction/grammar gets validated instead of corrected, since anyone who DARES offer any sort of correction whatsoever is immediately branded a grammar-Nazi or some such thing.....*sigh*
People could care less about what word they should of used, irregardless of whether or not it jives with what proper verbage would dictate. Their just so careless with there grammar, that when you hone in on the problem, its just heart-wrenching and leaves a pit in your stomach too see hear, they're and everywhere.
Now that you mention it, don't they teach you how to type in school? If it is all about saving time, shouldn't one be proficient it typing, considering how much technology rules our world today? If I were some teenager whose world is controlled by a smartphone, surely I would take time to actually learn how to use the keys.
That is the only one you spotted?? He tried to make as many errors in that paragraph as he could. There are atleast 8 of them. (Perhaps more, but english isnt my mother tongue, so maybe missed other stuff.)
I counted twelve, and I probably missed some, too. (Thirteen if you count the slang use of jive.) I almost missed verbage for verbiage. Well done, Don.
Nice! Particularly 'heart-wrenching' included in the penultimate paragraph. I had to forget you were being sarcastic at that point and screamed "It's heart-rending" at the screen!
@ Don: Couldn't care less, and should have, not should of. And your one "their" should be "they're." Also, irregardless is redundant. If you drop the "ir," it means the same thing. And it's "jibes," not "jives." Jive is a dance and/or an English dialect spoken mainly by black Americans. I get called a grammar Nazi all the time.
If I had to guess, I'd say you did that intentionally.
I hear num num all the time, but Cookie Monster says nom nom, and he's the expert. (I don't know what was wrong with plain old yum, but that's just me.)
Curious how the word creation tradition at the moment is very much in the realm of portmanteaux. My own habit is to create words out of Latin roots, French words, and things that sound like they should be English words but probably aren't.
Just a while ago read U of Michigan release on which age group of people are the most sensitive (and selfish/self centered, narcissistic, controlling and other negative traits). Turns out it's the people born between 1929 and early 60s. The study was US population only and based on psychological profiles collected by said university.
Personal observation in Europe says it's roughly the same around here. So called "boomers" (years vary depending on country) generation would seem the most sensitive of all. Coincidentally, the timing seems to be related to WW 1 & 2 fallout, e.g. childhood abandonment and war crazy ("shell shocked" = PTSD) parent(s).
Source? In my experience, the younger generation (of which I'm a part) is pretty high in all those traits. I think most people are more sensitive than they let on and try to hide that by calling other people sensitive instead.
Not us or uk. I have heard of fam, but I wouldnt have considered it a word. Plus I hate, I dont know why but it turns my guts and makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. (Dont think I have that with any other word though bae is rathrr creepy too..)
So I was rather well, shocked and appaled? haha to see it being used in dr who last week !! Not in a convo between 15 year olds hanging in the streets, but by the dr herself !! So no idea how prevalent it is in real life in the UK but you certainly could have heard about it.
Edit: there is even a wikia entry about it. https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Fam (had to check if I wasnt seeing/hearing things haha)
I actually think most of these are good additions...not the acts they represent, but the words themselves are fun. Vivid, playful, some good portmanteaus in there. Not crazy about "swole," "wag" is both stupid and a word we absolutely do not need, and I think "snowflake" is just about the dumbest, laziest appellation I've ever heard, but the other words are really good additions.
I don't think that "To dance in a provocative manner, with thrusting hips in a low stance" is a good clue for "twerk", even if it's in the dictionary. The dictionary being euphemistic, because they don't want to say "women shaking their buttocks as hard/fast as possible". There are a lot of other dance moves that do actually involve thrusting hips, like grinding, hip rolls, the sway, etc.
'Classless' as it may seem, it has rather interesting roots in African diaspora communities and New Orleans in the late 20th century, it's not like the zoomers invented it in 2009 to piss you off
"The show's been running since 1989 and it's still going, making it the longest-running TV show in history. "
Sorry Man, but Coronation Street has been on since 1960 and Guiding Light went from 1952-2009. Hell, As the World Turns was on for 54 years.
Sure they are soap operas, but they are still television shows.
(please know I'm only teasing, but I am also deadly serious xD)
People could care less about what word they should of used, irregardless of whether or not it jives with what proper verbage would dictate. Their just so careless with there grammar, that when you hone in on the problem, its just heart-wrenching and leaves a pit in your stomach too see hear, they're and everywhere.
Okay, that was cathartic.
If I had to guess, I'd say you did that intentionally.
Personal observation in Europe says it's roughly the same around here. So called "boomers" (years vary depending on country) generation would seem the most sensitive of all. Coincidentally, the timing seems to be related to WW 1 & 2 fallout, e.g. childhood abandonment and war crazy ("shell shocked" = PTSD) parent(s).
Just an interesting detail...
I am just auld and out of touch with the yooof of today.
So I was rather well, shocked and appaled? haha to see it being used in dr who last week !! Not in a convo between 15 year olds hanging in the streets, but by the dr herself !! So no idea how prevalent it is in real life in the UK but you certainly could have heard about it.
Edit: there is even a wikia entry about it. https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Fam (had to check if I wasnt seeing/hearing things haha)