Facebook Status update:
I had an awesome drive with my awesome hubby followed by an awesome movie. What an awesome day it was.
Awesome is the most loved adjective of this generation. Awesome movie, Awesome book, Awesome climate, Awesome ride, even awesome husband! I wondered what was going on in her mind. Was there a hint of commodification of the poor husband! Well masculinists will kill me for this. Don’t raise your eyebrows. Definitely masculinist is a word if feminist is one. We believe in equality. And if Kewl and Supah can be a welcome introduction in English dictionary then why not masculinist? Coming back to the topic, I scrolled down to take a glance at the comments to the above status. ‘Awwwwww’ with differing number of ws being the most common one. I was so awed at the awwwws and the awesome-nesses that I thought of making an exhaustive list of the most happening words of today’s lingo.
Awesome: Awesome is omnipresent. This is used to describe superlative degree of everything. Even spouses these days! The FB status is not a work of fiction at all. Best thing about awesome is, it can replace any adjective in English language. Beautiful evening → Awesome evening, Loving husband → Awesome hubby,Exciting trek → Awesome trek, Incredible experience → Awesome experience and so on. I have coined a term for this – ‘universal adjective’.
Awwww: Add more ws if you want to emphasize. It’s used to describe something cute. The number of ws increases with the extent to which one wishes to nag. Can be classified as a feminine lingo. Used mostly as comments to status messages describing awesomeness of something. If you like to behave like a nagging female go for it , else refrain .
Sweety pie/ munchkin/ sugar cup/honey bun :. 4 different words but they mean the same. It’s like, you find something very adorable; so adorable that you get a giddy feeling from within. As if you are drooling over a blueberry cheese cake; the sight makes your heart melt and you have no better way to express your feeling than comparing it with a mouthwatering desert. Such cheesy endearments are often followed by an awwww. Like ‘Awwwww.. Such a sweety pie.’.
Kewl: Substitute of the word cool but has nothing to do with temperature. Depicts how trendy someone or something or some incident is. Like ‘Holiday in Las Vegas! How Kewl is that!’ . Also used as a gesture of approval. Like, someone tells you ‘I will send you all the documents within an hour’ and you reply ‘Ok.Kewl’.This word has the highest wannabe quotient. Extensively used by spiked haired dudes who love to shake their legs to honey sing’s numbers.
Duh : Annoyed? Irritated?somebody said something obvious? It is so duh. This word is used often, but not by many and not as liberally as awesome and awww . Hence, using this word would still make you sound trendy in an un clichéd way.
LOL/LMAO/ROFL : Lol = Laugh out loud. . LOL is modified further to LOLzzzzz , extra z for increased loudness of laughter .LMAO =Laughing my arse off(I would love to see arses falling off due to laughter), ROFL – Rolling on the floor laughing ,TGIF-Thank God it’s Friday, TTYL-Talk to you later, TY-Thank you. Inspired by this, the other day I told my friend Hey HAND! , and he gave me a bizarre look. “Arey dumb fella! Have a Nice day. Itna bhi nahi jante. Duh ! “
Ma : if you thought I was talking about my mother you definitely need to upgrade yourself to the state of the art linguistics. Ma means my. Replace the y in my with an a (Poor y ), and there you go. Similar words in this category like Supah for Super, Dahling for darling , gal for girl are used sparingly. I don’t think I need to elaborate much on their meaning and usage.
My bad : Used (Read over used) by IT geeks who along with their acumen on cutting edge technology have a very ‘Kewl’ vocabulary .This word is equivalent to ‘It’s my mistake’. If you are in IT, this phrase is a must have in your vocabulary.
How’s you : Now, this is my favorite one. First time I had heard this I pitied the fella for having a poor grammar education at school. I never had a doubt on “you”’s plurality, so I blindly followed ‘how are you’ , ‘where are you’ , ‘what are you up to’ and so on like a norm. So the first instance of “how’s you” was ignored just like other grammatical disasters such as ‘I dint got’, ‘You didn’t told me’ etc. Then, one fine day I realized .No, it’s my bad (see how typically an IT geek I am) , ‘How are you’ is now obsolete and How’s you is the new school grammar.
This is not the end. This list could go on forever, but to speak the truth this is all I can think of right now. Do you think I have not done justice to the trend setting words and have missed out on few important ones? Please add on if you have more in mind.
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