Are you a throwback?

[Coffee Bean]

I'm pretty old, 27.

I still say things like, "That's rad". When I'm hanging out with younger folks, they have no idea what the word "rad" means, they may know there was a movie made with that title but have probably never used the word seriously.

But on the other hand, I can say that I've never used the words "phat" or "the bomb". In fact I find them somewhat lame. "Rad" is just rad.

 

[Justintime]

don't that mean 'radical'?

 

[Coffee Bean]

Yeah, it do mean it.

 

[Justintime]

 

[unclehobart]

Ingrained linguistic slang will pretty much follow you until the day you die. Everyone is a combination of the local dialect as well as the broad social trend slang. One may still learn (or be tainted by) new words... but rarely forgets the old ones.

 

[Justintime]

see we be slangin, aight holmes?

 

[Squiggy]

Far out...

 

[Coffee Bean]

I also use the word "dang". But only lived in the south for about 2 years.

 

[Justintime]

innit?

 

[Coffee Bean]

I say "far out" too. I think I'm a product of the 80's.

 

[Shadowfax]

20 here and i got it....you're not old.

 

[Coffee Bean]

I'm old. You're young.

 

[Justintime]

you're only 3 yrs older, i consider 40 approachin old

 

[Coffee Bean]

30 might as well be a death sentence.

 

[Shadowfax]

if you worry too much about it, perhaps.

 

[Coffee Bean]

I do. 25 was hard, because I was, then, officially "almost 30".

I was just 18 years old wasn't I?? Where did it go?

 

[Squiggy]

far out belongs to the 60s

 

[Coffee Bean]

Perhaps it was born from the 60's. But it was widely used in the 80's.

 

[Squiggy]

Groovy

 

[Coffee Bean]

Don't use groovy.

How about "Hey bro". Or some people say , "Hey brah".