Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Uncool word revival

People are always saying they're going to revive words like coolth and then fail to do so. I'm one of them. Regardless, I've been itching to revive certain uncool words.

In case you're unaware, uncool words are extremely disarming. A young musician once told me he was "jazzed" and after I nearly fell over laughing, I bought two of his CDs. In the world today, the more disarming our prose, the better. Just think of the dire diatribes you could bestow upon an unwitting audience using words like "jazzed". Jazzed like it's freaking 1998. Jazzed.

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, disarmingly uncool words I think I'm going to try to revive. Ready?
  • skite
  • snazzy
  • zippy
  • ace
  • rippa
  • radical
  • snag
  • flip (all forms)
  • rapt (already making good inroads here)
  • shonk
  • scheister
  • wack
  • hinky (yeah, hinky)
Yes, the coolth is extremely low in these linguistic realms. That's why I love it here.

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