Back in the day, 1980 or so, the kids in my town started using the word "decent" wherever you'd use the word "cool" (in its slang form). ex: "that's decent!" instead of "that's cool"; "deeecent!" instead of "coool!". It stopped sometime around 83 or so, IIRC.
Anyone else do that?
Where did it come from?
I don’t recall. We did use “wicked.”
Absolutely. “Radical” started, I believe, in the same go-around. “Hectic” was stillborn.
Imagine what it was like in, say, 1083 when kids started saying “great”. Th’ elders would have chuckled.
Absolutely
really?
wow. that’s good to know. i was worried our little chunk of upstate NY was all retarded.
on the other hand, we used “weak” in that way, too – completely opposite the way people normally use it. so… maybe we were a little slow.
Decent was probably pretty gear some time ago.
Keen, even.
When I was about 18 (’89 or so) my friends and I started to use ‘savage’.
‘That tune is SAVAGE man!’
ha ha. Sounds daft now. It was about that time that we described anyones house as their ‘yard’. ‘So, can we come round your yard later and get caned?’.