It’s like cool has unofficially been accepted by multiple generations to be the template by which all other trendy words are cut from.

  • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Is it odd that I associate both separately, ‘slayed’ to either a queer icon being a boss (I still haven’t warmed up to the alternative of “serving cunt”) or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I associate ‘slew’ with death by sword and, slightly related, Lily Allen’s Fuck You

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      Eeeyup.

      Slew is propa english of slay. If you slew, you killed.

      Slayed is nova anglice of slayyyyyy. If you slayed, yer were deemed cool