Crunked Up
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BA_Baracus replied on Tue Oct 11, 2005 @ 3:03pm |
 Coolness: 121240 | Language trends in 2005 are 'crunked-up' and 'bigged-out'
LONDON (AP) - Crunk is good? Among the hot new words, it's ova-wicked, even uberbuff. They're just some of the entries in a book published Thursday that lists newly coined words, as well as jargon used in technology, politics and the media. Crunk - the U.S. hybrid for crazy and drunk - is an example of how words evolve from popular culture, said Susie Dent, author of Fanboys and Overdogs: The Language Report. "Crunk is generating all sorts of offshoot terms in the U.S. - crunk 'n' b, crunk rock, crunkster - and looks set to catch on in Britain, too," Dent said. "New words travel from one variety of English to another and at a rapidly increasing rate, thanks to the way language is exchanged today over e-mail, chat-rooms, TV, etc." Dent's new book also discusses the tendency "big up" our language. Nothing is ever good or even great anymore - instead, we opt for "ova-wicked" and "uberbuff." Government appointees are tsars and experts are meisters. Job titles also reflect this kind of inflation. The head of verbal communications is really just a receptionist, while stockboys have been promoted to stock-replenishment executives, she said. As for the fanboys in the book's title, Dent said they're guys who are absorbed by a passion for comic books or computer games. The book also looks at vocabulary shifts from the past century. The year 1905 saw the introduction of peace economy. With the next year came tyrannosaurus. Many words on the list are related to events - 1940 introduced Jim Crow and 1980 brought Reaganomics. Podcasting was last year's word. The frontrunner for the 2005 word of the year is sudoku, the logic puzzle that has replaced crosswords as a favourite way to kill time over lunch break. Fanboys is Dent's third annual language review book, publicist Sarah Kidd said. Dent is a resident word expert on London's Channel 4's Countdown program. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PonChalice replied on Tue Oct 11, 2005 @ 4:36pm |
 Coolness: 76460 | ... anyone who uses the word "uber", in the english language, is a thurough douchebag ... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Tue Oct 11, 2005 @ 4:56pm |
 Coolness: 48660 | hahahahaha ^^^^ |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» trashandsuicide replied on Tue Oct 11, 2005 @ 5:14pm |
 Coolness: 75475 | Uber was cool in.. umm.. when was first ed DnD out? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Wed Oct 12, 2005 @ 6:42pm |
 Coolness: 472010 | lets get crunked up in the club biatch !
word !! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» trashandsuicide replied on Wed Oct 12, 2005 @ 7:47pm |
| Coolness: 75475 | I like how "crunk" is also like a type of music to some people. Crunk Rock or something.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Wed Oct 12, 2005 @ 7:52pm |
| Coolness: 48660 | lil jon is a talentless fool...okaaaaaaaaye! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» trashandsuicide replied on Wed Oct 12, 2005 @ 7:53pm |
| Coolness: 75475 | But he can still charge like 70 bucks to get into circus... ugh. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Wed Oct 12, 2005 @ 7:54pm |
| Coolness: 48660 | funny...in orlando the cover to see him and afroman was 10bucks....that was still too much. afroman was kinda cool though |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» trashandsuicide replied on Wed Oct 12, 2005 @ 7:56pm |
| Coolness: 75475 | Hey man.. he has a pimp goblet... PIMP GOBLET! That's cool.. I'm sorry.. I like the goblet. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Wed Oct 12, 2005 @ 8:53pm |
| Coolness: 472010 | crunk music isnt only Lil' JOn
it goes back to years ago, some sorta beatz in between bass music, booty bass and stuff, hiphop and electro |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» trashandsuicide replied on Wed Oct 12, 2005 @ 9:20pm |
| Coolness: 75475 | Yeah, he's just the figurehead of the whole thing... even though he's not the original. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Wed Oct 12, 2005 @ 9:26pm |
| Coolness: 48660 | now pastor troy i can dig...i saw him in jville and it was off the hook...urban tunes have been dying on me lately...i used to be all about the urban beats...when big and pac left evrything started going downhill for me.VISA VERSA BYOTCH! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» daFTWin replied on Wed Oct 12, 2005 @ 10:43pm |
 Coolness: 276640 | One time I was riding the bus and a group of kids were discussin how 'super-bawlin' was the the new hot word. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» trashandsuicide replied on Wed Oct 12, 2005 @ 10:54pm |
| Coolness: 75475 | Heh... my friends and I often start up slang and try to get it to rub off on other people, we usually steal it from other places though.
Notable examples: Tits = Awesome (ie: That is SO tits!) Tactits = Not Awesome (Fuck dude... TACTITS!) Business! = Snap! (someone gets dissed: "Oh business!") Bitches = A word for everything, your friends, your food, somebody you don't know the name of, a cuss word, etc. On or Not On = Good or Bad. (That is so ON! or That is fucking NOT ON!... I think that's from Vice) The list goes on... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Thu Oct 13, 2005 @ 12:24am |
| Coolness: 48660 | whats with the young french kids that say "C'est live" drives me up a wall |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BA_Baracus replied on Fri Oct 14, 2005 @ 1:13pm |
| Coolness: 121240 | full on yo
i wonder if outkast was the first to use the crunk term on 1 of their first albums |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Fri Oct 14, 2005 @ 1:46pm |
| Coolness: 472010 | as i said the term *crunk* comes from bass music from the 80's ....
i like *bawlin'* |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» SebastianPrelar replied on Fri Oct 14, 2005 @ 2:20pm |
 Coolness: 64995 | Here Seb, have a fresh crink so you can get fuckin crunk |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PonChalice replied on Fri Oct 14, 2005 @ 3:10pm |
| Coolness: 76460 | that pic is makin me feel sick |
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