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about 20 years ago, the guys at work and i started saying (barking)
"whatever" as a sarcastic response on a regular basis. this quickly
became part of our national lexicon. it's not the first word or
phrase started by me or my buddy's to become meshed in the
fabric of culture!
so, if vegas
runs odds on the word "epic" i'd buy. that's because i
have just recently been using it as a hyperbolic response to
people bragging about their life and times. sometimes i'm
sincere, sometimes not so much!
i promise, by the end of the year 2010, that word will be used on
a regular basis in current pop culture.
thefleur
Google Trends; epic vs. awesome
http://www.google.c...s?q=epic%2C+awesome
Anyone know what that epic peak in 2007 is about? [jutta, May 07 2010]
Maybe this, jutta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Movie
[calum, May 07 2010]
Ah, yes, calum, that's obviously it!
http://www.google.c...2C+%22epic+movie%22
[jutta, May 08 2010]
epic
http://cache.coverb...image/epic/17-1.jpg
[xenzag, May 08 2010]
[link]
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It's impossible, is it, that several people started using this
word independently? Or that you were unconsciously
influenced by someone else? Positive it must have been you
that changed the "fabric of culture"? |
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I was using the "whatever" response 22 years ago. [-] |
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Well quite - in fact we had a cartoon (a "Hagar the horrible"
strip) pinned to our kitchen noticeboard at home when I was
young, which used "Whatever" as a resigned, sarcastic
response. This would have been in the early 80's. |
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Equally and also, I seem to recall one Rodney Trotter envincing a lack of enthusiasm for one or more of Derek's harebrained schemes with a well placed and mightily sarcastic Peckham-inflected "epic" all the way back in the barely kent mists of 1980something. |
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'Whatever' is actually a corruption of a much earlier term originating in the so called far east, when it was at one time commonly accepted custom to throw a cooking pot in the air as an expression of frustration. |
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'Wok-heaver' was in fact the original Chinese Whisper, that was incorrectly transmitted as the now more familiar 'whatever'. |
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I've been saying "Fuck a crippled monkey!" as an exclamation
since junior high, but it has never caught on in popular
culture. |
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which national lexicon would that be, [lotus] ? |
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...if this is your first idea in three years, I'm not betting on anything!
over 50 years ago I started saying *whaaahhh* and babies have said this ever since! |
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Wait, didn't "epic" already precede "awesome"? Or do I have the order wrong? [Hum, looks like both are still on the rise. But awesome does seem to be going a little faster, if you squint real hard.] |
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So, how would the betting system actually work? |
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Does this idea turn on the use of "epic" or is it a system of wagering on word usage (as invited by jutta). I like the latter. It would be easier to bet on relative baby name popularity as a sort of horse race since these are tracked year by year but also hard to influence. I would bet against Emily, whose race is run, and would put a little money on Agatha for top 100 by 2021. |
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Re simple word use, it would be interesting how someone betting _against_ epic would go about influencing the contest - a more challenging prospect than someone betting in favor of epic, who could then singlehandedly litter the internet with the word "epic". |
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Epic fail-bone awarded. Or EFB for short. |
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I am going to short-sell the word epic - when the crash comes I'm going to be wealthy. |
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I give bread for the author straightfacedly claiming to have a hand on the wheel of the national lexicon. |
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I personally introduced the term "dude" to English (originally part of a longer phrase in Chippewa) and look where that went: everywhere. Also "daddy-o" (from Farsi) before that. I am not claiming to be lotus, but acknowledge that I am more or less the Daniel Webster of popular vernacular. |
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Who on earth would brag about introducing yet another
mindless verbal mannerism into the language? It's
dumbington dumb. |
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Actually "Dumbington" was another of my introductions. |
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It only countington counts if you follow it with "dumb". |
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There's an epic amount of condensed fail in this post. If the fail:wordcount density were any higher, I think the post would collapse inside its own non-event horizon, forming a fail singularity which would rapidly consume the HB and all life as we know it [-] |
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That's offensive to retardant morons everywhere. |
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I love this post and annos. I got tears. Thank you Jutta for
Halbakery. Who needs TV or books? |
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Hey, really. I said I was a 'lesbian trapped in a mans body' in
the 80's, dude. Epically awsome. Now I are one. |
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My bet is on 'blarmy' (blameworthy, bothersome, or
chutzpah (if used as a noun)), though I still rue the
demise of 'rad' |
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