The world is screwed. It's Over. It's done!!! The Future is No More!

[UsuallyPresent]

The same way lexical drift has happened for literally all of recorded history? Words and their usage change constantly. Getting upset about it is pointless pearl clutching.

Or you could pull a France or China and set up an 'Authoritative Source' for a language, with properly stuffy bureaucratic rulesets and well-entitled functionaries... Personally would rather have a live language, but that's me.

 

[Britva415]

Or you could pull a France or China and set up an 'Authoritative Source' for a language, with properly stuffy bureaucratic rulesets and well-entitled functionaries... Personally would rather have a live language, but that's me.

It wouldn't work for idioms, though.

 

[Britva415]

Weird that it took me this long to realize that "lowkey" is totally just "totally."

With this weird added self-conscious ironic layer of "I just don't want to say totally because enthusiasm is for boomers"

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Weird that it took me this long to realize that "lowkey" is totally just "totally."

With this weird added self-conscious ironic layer of "I just don't want to say totally because enthusiasm is for boomers"

Have you picked up on the clanker thing yet?

 

[PennyThompson]

Weird that it took me this long to realize that "lowkey" is totally just "totally."

With this weird added self-conscious ironic layer of "I just don't want to say totally because enthusiasm is for boomers"

Sort of... it has the added nuance of meaning that you believe that you shouldn't be overly excited about the thing being discussed, but are anyway. You want to acknowledge the thing without making a big deal out of the thing.

"Is it weird that I lowkey could go for some frozen yogurt right now?"

Which doesn't just mean "I could totally eat some frozen yogurt," it means "I have a craving for frozen yogurt, even though I know it's kind of a cringe early-2000s thing and all of the froyo places closed five years ago."

 

[YmaOHyd]

Meanwhile, highkey wanting frozen yogurt is, like, I want frozen yogurt and am prepared to be extremely annoying about it.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

'going forward'


What happened to 'from now on' ?


If it was good enough for Supertramp, why change it?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

And I've also been seeing 'highkey' recently.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

'Am I cooked?'


How long have you been in the oven?