What will be the cool word for "cool" in 2032?
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https://lingthusiasm.com/post/695506670854586369/episode-72-what-if-linguistics-absurd

English has had a lot of different words for "cool": "sick", "hot", "lit", "rad", "sweet", "tight", "nice", "neat", "keen", "nifty", "groovy", "based", "chill", "dank", etc.

What will the cool kids in 2032 say?

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Terminally online people in certain communities already say "based" to mean "thing I like" and have for years with no sign of stopping, by 2032 it will have fully diffused to the normies.

Really like this market (good luck on figuring out how to resolve it in 10 years :-P)

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