R. Richard
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Interesting. Dude is another one that's been around a long time that we think of as being more recent. People were using it in the old days to refer to a city slicker I believe."Cool" has been around a lot longer than that! Its current slang meaning is at least a century old, but it was morphing into that form well back in the mid-19th century.
Abraham Lincoln, in his Cooper Union speech of 1860, said (emphasis mine):
But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, You say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!"
I've never heard that in my 49 years on this planet in the midwest. Maybe it's one of those regional sayings? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It would be difficult to care less?Interesting. I've never seen that extension before, and I doubt many Americans would have, either
It does make sense in a way, but as noted up above by @Kumquatqueen, I suspect it's an attempt to explain an American foolishness, post facto. But then, KQQ ain't American, either, so it might be a trans-Atlantic generosity .I've never heard that in my 49 years on this planet in the midwest. Maybe it's one of those regional sayings? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It would be difficult to care less?
I am American, actually. Just never lived there for more than a few months at a time.It does make sense in a way, but as noted up above by @Kumquatqueen, I suspect it's an attempt to explain an American foolishness, post facto. But then, KQQ ain't American, either, so it might be a trans-Atlantic generosity .
That's useful to know. Mockery from a distance, huh?I am American, actually. Just never lived there for more than a few months at a time.
Means I'm allowed to take the piss out of the septics...