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Who decides what new words mean?
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Batshit - why is that crazy?
Badass - why is that daring and rebellious?
Sick - why is that good?
And who decides?!
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By *iver78Man 7 days ago
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"One which was brought up on here yesterday: ‘Bare’ denoting a (large?) quantity of something.
What on earth was the inception for this?
Answers please….? 😵💫😵💫"
Bare has been used by the afro Carabian community for yrs , a lot of slang words come from them , they invent words to hide what there talking about ( kinda a secret language)
The fact it's spilled over into our language is down to is picking up there slang
When I worked over Nasau it was a completely different English language lol , but I still find in funny when Caucasian males try to do it lol |
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"One which was brought up on here yesterday: ‘Bare’ denoting a (large?) quantity of something.
What on earth was the inception for this?
Answers please….? 😵💫😵💫
Bare has been used by the afro Carabian community for yrs , a lot of slang words come from them , they invent words to hide what there talking about ( kinda a secret language)
The fact it's spilled over into our language is down to is picking up there slang
When I worked over Nasau it was a completely different English language lol , but I still find in funny when Caucasian males try to do it lol "
So I guess that’s a little bit like jive or cockney rhyming slang |
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"One which was brought up on here yesterday: ‘Bare’ denoting a (large?) quantity of something.
What on earth was the inception for this?
Answers please….? 😵💫😵💫
Bare has been used by the afro Carabian community for yrs , a lot of slang words come from them , they invent words to hide what there talking about ( kinda a secret language)
The fact it's spilled over into our language is down to is picking up there slang
When I worked over Nasau it was a completely different English language lol , but I still find in funny when Caucasian males try to do it lol "
Ahhh thank you 😃😃😃👍🏻
I find the etymology and origins of words and phrases to be a highly fascinating subject.
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I think it’s the Oxford dictionary people who decide whether a word gets in there. I applied years ago with the word ‘remail’ meaning the email that answers an email but they told me (by remail) that a word has to be in ‘common usage’ before it can be considered. |
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