Categories: Lifestyle

Shit People Say: Slang From The 1990s Until Today [Infographic]

I think I have touched this subject briefly before in some of my articles, but I haven’t really penetrated the subject to the core. It seems that the community of geeks and fans of various franchises have a need to come up with words that become the slang for a whole generation. It’s been going on for decades now, and as we all know, it’s not going to stop anytime soon. They are words that usually mean something else, but they are put into another context to become a trendy way of saying things. I don’t know if that way of explaining it makes any sense at all, but it’s the only way I know to put it.

Words like baller, swag and OMG were trending words on pretty much every website when they were at their highest peak of usage, but there is a timeline to follow here. It’s a timeline that clearly outlines the trendy word of any given period, and it’s quite interesting to look at actually. Even though it was somewhat a word of the ’90s, I use “crunked” as a way of hinting that something is broken or bad. It’s a twist on the word “crunk” with a backwards meaning.

There are of course millions of these words out there that haven’t hit the masses just yet. The words you are familiar with also depend on where you live in the world. It has been said that the reason we do this is because we want to alter the boring use of the words in order to make our own perception of them or ourselves come across a little bit cooler or hipper. Whether this is true or not, I don’t know. One thing is for sure, and that is that we will see countless more of these kinds of words in the future. It’s one of the things that make something go viral on websites and social networking services after all. It’s just how we operate it seems. You dig? (Created by Skybox Creative)

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Via: [Visual.ly]

Richard Darell

Richard Darell is the founder and CEO of Bit Rebels, a multifaceted online news outlet that reports daily on the latest developments in technology, social media, design and everything geek. Today this media entity welcomes more than 3.5 million unique visitors per month and is considered the go-to place for people in constant motion. As an Internet entrepreneur, he is dedicated to constantly trying to develop new ways to bring content faster and closer to the end user in a more streamlined way. His excitement for statistics has allowed him to further develop systems that continuously produce accurate and fast-paced analytics to better optimize the approach by which Bit Rebels presents news and content. His graphic design background has proven to be an important tool when designing new systems and features for Bit Rebels since the development of solid and stable code depends entirely on their structure and implemented procedures. Richard currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden and directs the Bit Rebels offices in both Stockholm and Atlanta. You can reach Richard at richard@bitrebels.com

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