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Dave Kopperman
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I'd heard the Ohio one from a studio intern last year, and it really took me a while to unpack.
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Edward Aycock
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I would be happy to never hear "bruh" again.
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John Byrne
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I am less than fond of “meh”.
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Joseph Vecchio
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Kids today wit da hair and da clothes and da hippin' and da hoppin'
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It was not lost on me that Stan called The Silver Surfer
Norrin Radd when "Rad" was a surfer dude term.
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Woah. Bill, you just blew my mind
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>> ...the famous Z-Boys of Dogtown appear to have invented rad in the second half of the seventies. [...] In early skateboarding vernacular, radical usually referenced tricks or someone’s bravura (killer) performance — “a radical air,” “a radical session” — or meant crazy, wild, edgy, unplanned, a precursor to modern skateboarding’s “sick.”<<
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I heard "deadass" from a twenty something person recently.
It took a minute for me to realize it was a substitute for "seriously".
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Peter Martin
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Wild seems to have crept into an almost ubiquitous usage among a younger generation than mine.

And fire is another one I've noticed. It's wild...
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