The Death of 'Bae'

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/the-lamentable-death-of-bae/384086/?single_page=true

by jonah • 12 years ago

22 26 12 years ago

typea• 12 years ago

Wonder what the next hyped word is going to be after bae died out. Funny how a new saying pops out of no where every other month.

mathattack• 12 years ago

That's what kids do. And it's also why fogies should never try to "talk hip" with the kids. We're always out of date. (We should also never talk about the music or movies of our childhood. Risky Business and REM are Bogart and Sinatra to them.)

theorique3• 12 years ago

('cool' dad walks downstairs to rec room): "Hey there teens, are you twerkin' wit yo bae? How bout dat Iggy Azalea doe?"

gaius2• 12 years ago

Well yes and no. Most slang is about being more expressive; these are about being less.

bglazer• 12 years ago

Very interesting article.

I bet there's a small, yet fun, opportunity to create a service that will predict new slang words based on analysis of twitter and urban dictionary. I wonder if anyone would pay for that?

sprucely• 12 years ago

That's so jar. No really, I had a friend who tried to make "jar" the new "cool". It didn't catch on. But you're probably right. I could see a market for the notoriety, or at least self-satisfaction, of being the one who coined a popular term or phrase.

theorique3• 12 years ago

also see: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stop-trying-to-make-fetch-happ...

DiabloD32• 12 years ago

I'm sorry, but I've never heard anyone use the word bae unless it was some forced "black American culture" thing in a TV show (ie, played for laughs).

To claim its dead implies it was once alive.

goldmouth• 12 years ago

I'm in my mid 20's and I can't go a day without seeing a fb/snapchat/instagram post with the word 'bae'.

DiabloD32• 12 years ago

I'm in my early 30s, and I use none of those. Maybe its a generational thing?

rubiquity• 12 years ago

Get new friends.

joezydeco• 12 years ago

My parents have been using it as a term of endearment for each other since the late 60s. I always assumed it was a common shortening of "babe".

siegecraft• 12 years ago

dat bae doe

gaius2• 12 years ago

I thought this was about British Aerospace, I have never heard this word. Or "normcore".

ajryan• 12 years ago

He said, stroking his Unix beard.

theorique3• 12 years ago

"ain't u ev'r caught bae slippin?"

nsxwolf• 12 years ago

I only became aware of this word just now. I'm glad I wasn't aware of it before. I am also hopeful that the headline is accurate and that it is, in fact, dead.

bane2• 12 years ago

This must be an impossibly narrowly used slang word. I've never heard nor read it before today and my (much) younger co-workers haven't either.

This may as well be an article on "plokithorpf"

dllthomas2• 12 years ago

I kinda wanted plokithorpf to be something.

bane2• 12 years ago

Please tell me you googled for it...or asked the nearest hip young person.

cheshire137• 12 years ago

I've mainly seen it come up on Tumblr, Reddit, and Twitter.

chestnut-tree• 12 years ago

"This must be an impossibly narrowly used slang word"

Apparently, it's been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Some other up-and-coming phrases according to this Guardian opinion piece are:

  "I can't even"

  "all the feels"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/28/young-p...

schnevets• 12 years ago

The intro to this article reminds me of the GrubHub/Seamless ads that have been on New York Subways for the last 6 months. The meme-filled slogans were bad when they went up (Especially the doge saying "Very takeout! Such convenience!"), but they got more obnoxious and out of touch with each passing month.

droidist2• 12 years ago

I'm just thankful they're not talking about Doona Bae, she's pretty cool.

rsofaer• 12 years ago

I've never heard this, but it sounds like it comes from Mandarin, since baobae means the same/similar thing there.

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