Creating the vernacular of the future.
Once in a while my tongue, along with assistance from my brain, turns a phrase worth keeping. It has happened a fair few times in my life. Some of those additions to my lexicon have gone on to wider use, always leaving me to wonder if I really started that or if I heard it somewhere, forgot about it, and the regurgitated it later as if it were my own idea.
NO MORE!
With this new recurring feature I will be posting words or phrases that I create as soon as I've been through the initial vetting process and decided they are part of my permanent vocabulary.
Creating the vernacular of the future: Episode I
-The word "campers" used in place of the word "intense" used in place of words like "awesome."
Example: Dude! Did you see that fall? That was freakin' campers, man! (No. I don't talk like that.)
NO MORE!
With this new recurring feature I will be posting words or phrases that I create as soon as I've been through the initial vetting process and decided they are part of my permanent vocabulary.
Creating the vernacular of the future: Episode I
-The word "campers" used in place of the word "intense" used in place of words like "awesome."
Example: Dude! Did you see that fall? That was freakin' campers, man! (No. I don't talk like that.)
3 Comments:
Good Idea - You do come up with some doozies
What is the etymology here? Philologists worldwide want to know!
camping... it's in-tents
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