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Archaic words are making a comeback, thanks to hipsters' love of all things old. The Washington Post's wonkblog has an article examining how hipsters may be bringing back vintage language, and the effects it is having on modern culture. This may be a passing fad, as hipsters themselves are now making jokes about bespoke water; if they're not careful the charming anachronism may go mainstream and become unfit for hipster irony.
BTW, this submission was inspired by a comment thread here about craft/artisanal beers. Apparently, the old words are not just re-entering the hipsters' language but getting co-opted by marketers hoping to woo the hipster pocketbook. Some linguistic shift may result.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 30 2015, @01:31PM
'bespoke', 'smitten' and 'dapper' are anglicisms some throw into their speech to convey sophistication. It's not really different from earlier times like post-WWI America when people laced their expressions with French, or 19th century society (and, really, much longer than that) when people did the same with Latin and/or Greek phrases.
This current spate of terms does feel like the result of a drinking bet between hipsters over craft ales, in which they bet they could use social media to get other people to start using obscure, effete terms in everyday conversation.
Ah, but we got in our daily quotient of hipster mocking, and, really, isn't that what it's all about in the end?
Washington DC delenda est.