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I was raised in south jersey, about 30m from Philly, and I remember exactly when jawn hit our little town, right around Y2K. I was in 9th grade at the time, and
by googlryas 4y ago
I was raised in south jersey, about 30m from Philly, and I remember exactly when jawn hit our little town, right around Y2K. I was in 9th grade at the time, and I remember it being like an arms race where people were throwing jawns out at every little thing, regardless of necessity. I also remember it pissed off a couple of the "cool kids" who were actively trying to coin "gwat" with the other students. It had some legs at first, but jawn came along and everyone forgot gwat.
- merolish 4y agoHuh, I grew up in Cherry Hill and graduated HS in 2000, guess we missed it because I didn't learn about the term until years later.
- ry4nolson 4y agothat's so fetch!
- djbusby 4y agoStop trying to make fetch happen.
- tomcam 4y agothat's so moosh of you
- TheMightyLlama 4y agoNah, safe.
- smcl 4y agoI was visiting Birmingham when "safe" was taking off in England (2006?) but hadn't reached Scotland yet. Was talking to a random guy in a bar, and I couldn't understand why he was so insistent that Birmingham was "safe"
- quickthrower2 4y agoSafe predates 2006 in the UK by a long distance. “Laters” was a fun one. A shibboleth to pretend you are from London if you live just outside.
- smcl 4y agoMaybe among younger people in the South East of England, but it certainly hadn't spread all the way north at that point
- tomcam 4y agoSomeone here's going to need to explain "safe" and "laters" to this Yank
- smcl 4y ago"safe" is just some slang meaning like "cool" "laters" would just be a short way of saying "see you later" - but it sounds really a bit lame and try-hard to me, or the kind of thing a middle-aged, middle-class person would write as dialogue for a working class urban teenage character in a TV show. I think quickthrower2 is saying the same thing but maybe they can correct me (sounds like they're England, so they'll know better than me). Don't worry about either, you won't hear them particularly often :)
- tomcam 4y agoThanks for scratching that itch. Laters definitely sounds contrive. Totally moosh.
- smcl 4y agoSafe, mate! (or less inauthentic, "nae bother")
- quickthrower2 4y agoYeah it was definitely try hard IMO. I said some of the old crap sayings but only said “laters” only in pure irony!
- jakzurr 4y agoOMG that's funny! Thanks for sharing.