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In summary: dude originally meant "hipster."
by ewzimm 13y ago
In summary: dude originally meant "hipster."
- ChuckMcM 13y agoApparently. Which tells you that nothing new actually is. It also makes you wonder what a Roman hipster would have been like in Caesar's time.
- mmanfrin 13y agoCaesar was considered a 'hipster' in his time (prior to his conquest). He supported plebian donatives and programs, which created a populist support base but engendered distrust and hatred from the Optimates (conservatives). He was also said to have a different style of dress than was the norm.
- guscost 13y agoThen a hipster is a leftist with weird clothes?
- beachstartup 13y agoa greek.
- guscost 13y ago"I used to make burnt offerings to Athena before it was cool."
- DrewRWx 13y agoYou mean Minerva.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoGreek culture and language were a prestige thing in classical Rome; they were practiced by the very upper crust of society. There's a reason Julius Caesar's last words were said to have been in Greek. I don't think hipsters have achieved quite that level of glamour.
- devindotcom 13y agoWhich leads to another problem, that "hipster" has more or less lost all meaning. So perhaps another parallel should be drawn.
- barbs 13y agoNow I'm curious as to the origin of "hipster"...
- chocolate_ 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%281940s_subculture%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%281940s_subculture%29
- Sandman 13y agoIn 1940s the term "hipster", it seems, stood for a person who was cool, "hip": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%281940s_subculture%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%281940s_subculture%29 This might interest you as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie_%28etymology%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie_%28etymology%29