is cnn pulling "the word" from stephen colbert?
actual story taken from cnn.com (well, just the first few paragraphs):
NEW YORK (AP) -- Groovy is over, hip is square, far out is long gone. Don't worry, though -- it's cool.
"Cool" remains the gold standard of slang in the 21st century, as reliable as a blue-chip stock, surviving like few expressions ever in our constantly evolving language. It has kept its cool through the centuries -- even as its meaning changed drastically.
How cool is that?
Way cool, say experts who interpret slang for their messages about society.
"Cool is certainly a charter member for the slang hall of fame," says Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University professor of popular culture. "Cool just sits back and keeps getting used generation after generation and lets the whole history of the language roll off its back."
no joke, the whole article is about use of the word "cool." i was a little shocked to see that this was a news story, but i do remember that one of my favorite stories on npr recently was about the words of 2005 that might stick around for a while. maintiaining the tablescape, by the way, is entirely cromulent, but popesquatting is not. that's the truthiness of it (by the way...truthiness was first coined on the colbert report--honestly, i don't really like that show all that much.)
also, check out this list of "cool" idioms (also from cnn.com):
groovy, neat or neato, hip, slick, keen, chill, excellent
heavy, NOT, outta sight, far out, top drawer, buttah, dynamite
phat, off the hook, sweet, radical, Gag me with a spoon
super, gnarly, the cat's pajamas, def, copasetic, trip
fab, da bomb, rad, beat, classy, wack, square, with it
burnout, right on, the fuzz, copper, nifty, out of this world
that list is so top drawer.
later.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Groovy is over, hip is square, far out is long gone. Don't worry, though -- it's cool.
"Cool" remains the gold standard of slang in the 21st century, as reliable as a blue-chip stock, surviving like few expressions ever in our constantly evolving language. It has kept its cool through the centuries -- even as its meaning changed drastically.
How cool is that?
Way cool, say experts who interpret slang for their messages about society.
"Cool is certainly a charter member for the slang hall of fame," says Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University professor of popular culture. "Cool just sits back and keeps getting used generation after generation and lets the whole history of the language roll off its back."
no joke, the whole article is about use of the word "cool." i was a little shocked to see that this was a news story, but i do remember that one of my favorite stories on npr recently was about the words of 2005 that might stick around for a while. maintiaining the tablescape, by the way, is entirely cromulent, but popesquatting is not. that's the truthiness of it (by the way...truthiness was first coined on the colbert report--honestly, i don't really like that show all that much.)
also, check out this list of "cool" idioms (also from cnn.com):
groovy, neat or neato, hip, slick, keen, chill, excellent
heavy, NOT, outta sight, far out, top drawer, buttah, dynamite
phat, off the hook, sweet, radical, Gag me with a spoon
super, gnarly, the cat's pajamas, def, copasetic, trip
fab, da bomb, rad, beat, classy, wack, square, with it
burnout, right on, the fuzz, copper, nifty, out of this world
that list is so top drawer.
later.