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I often find myself confronted with words or phrases that are used differently than they were a couple decades ago. But they appear to be presented in such a way as if they have always been used the same.

For example, today somebody wrote "saddened". As in I'm saddened by your loss etc. This may have existed 20 years ago but it was hardly used. I started hearing it from politicians/pr types and now it's everywhere. Like it's classy. No it's not it's bullshit.

Another word I keep hearing: "mullet" referencing long hair such as mine. Again a word that was invented recently. But the implication is that people in the 80's said: "Hey I want to grow a mullet"

I know this sounds convoluted and may even be regional. I'm curious if others feel this kind of thing. And I want to post more when I remember/ run into them, maybe you can help.
 
What gets me isn't so much the new words, as much as people using already existing words and/or terms and using it or them in the complete opposite sense of their definitions.

Steve, for example, often says when watching a game and someone makes a great shot/goal or whatever pending the sport,
he will say "that was nasty".
Nasty-gross, repulsive.
However when he says it (and I hear other people do it too) he means it was awesome.
 
Reno, since you represent or once represented (not sure if you have recently changed hairstyles) the mullet hairstyle, is it fact or myth that when aroused or angered the mullet would rise in spike-like fashion like a porcupine?
 
I read that the Beastie Boys helped popularize the use of the word thanks to their album "Mullet Head"

that might have been the first use of it, in reference to the hair style which has came and went for all of time....

Reno, when was the last year you didn't have, what we would refer to as a mullet (business up front, party in the back) hair style?
 
Meanings shift and shit. Language is not an exact science. That's why they put out new dictionaries every year.

And, stating the somewhat obvious, popular language is heavily influenced by the media/entertainment/advertising industries.

Kim Basinger is fokken MILF.
 
I just can't ever wrap my mind around the idea, that GAY use to mean "happy"

or that RE: the cultural differences the whole Brit "FAG" meaning cigerette.....

its the HOMOS that are really trying to fok with the inexact science of language

and I ain't talkin HOMOSAPIENS
 
But all those things are easily identifiable and attributed to the tool generation.

I remember when I was on a bus about 17 years ago and a couple 10 year olds were riding. One of them kept calling the other fool.
I thought they were gonna fight :dunno:

but that's not really the kind of thing I'm trying to get at. Maybe it's just subjective.
 
This seems like a viable premise but the examples given aren't holding water for me. "Mullet" has been in common use for a long time and "saddened" even longer.

Maybe, as suggested, it is a regional thing.

I feel like I should have some words of my own to contribute but I'm not thinking of anything right now. Maybe later.
 
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