I'm getting better at understanding them
But damn sometimes I spend more time searching for definitions to understand it than it actually takes to read it
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I was listening to H.G. Wells on audiobook today and it's both cool and sometimes difficult to listen to the old timey English. Like it's close enough to be familiar and mostly understood, but also different enough to sound like a whole other language.
Language evolves and I think that's cool. The more people we have and the more ways of communicating, the more it will evolve.
This modern slang is damn gibberish. Back in my day, at least our slang made some gramatical sense, it was simply noun replacement, and some adverbs/verbs. Now get off my lawn.
Cool beans man, cool beans
Pretty hip if I say so myself.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!
Copacetic, one might even say
Indubitably
Whatup dawg, I am fly as well!
It do be like that
Jive was the same way.
But do you speak jive?
I don't speak it, but considering this scene from Airplane (1980) ( on YouTube ) I understood the whole conversation.
Of course this is Hollywood jive, and like other languages, it's subject to regional vernacular variance which might be beyond me.
Lol that's exactly what I was referencing, hell yeah
It isn't gibberish and it makes grammatical sense. You just don't understand the unspoken rules around the slang.
But sure grandma let's get you to bed :P
The evolution of language is beautiful IMO
I've read books from over a hundred years ago and their modern translations and the differences are sometimes pretty drastic
Listening to those radio plays from back in the day is pretty awesome as well