Cool

(Ebony) There is a cat sitting on my foot.
(IDK) You kids and your jive talk.


How do slang and idioms make their way into our language? There are the easy ones like "spill the beans" (Romans used to elect people by putting different colored beans into a jar. If somebody 'spilled the beans' the secret would be out). But then there are the hard ones like "cool" or "spank the monkey". How the hell do those invade our mouths without us knowing?

Better question: How do we make new slang? They had a zits about it. Jeremy wanted to start a new slang word, 'Plasmic' i think it was, and tried to kick it off. He asked his friend how her day was and when she asked him about his, he responded that it was "plasmic". She gave him a dirty look and he made a snide, defeated comment. It failed, you know.

It must be really hard to pull this shit off. First of all, you'd need to have relevence to yourself. After all, why start a cool word if it means nothing to you in the first place? Second of all, It's got to be a cool word. It must make people WANT to say it. Third of all, it must have a following; nobody's going to start saying your word if nobody...starts..saying.......your word. yea. Sounds easy, doesn't it?

Easy like the high school exit exam.