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How Hipsters May be Bringing Back Vintage Language

posted by cmn32480 on Friday October 30 2015, @06:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the thou-art-a-wanker dept.

Zinho writes:

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 aristarchus on Saturday October 31 2015, @08:57AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday October 31 2015, @08:57AM (#256832) Journal

    Perhaps, and forsooth, I did overstate the point. Mayhaps I intended to say that a "made-up" language is one for which we possess no extant text? More a Classicist approach than that of an archaeolinguist, but one I would stick to. Are you saying that the completely fantastic created languages do not follow rules of syntax, grammar, phonemes and semantics? Of course they do. They are freer in regard to those than someone trying to recreate a proto language, but the parameters (hey! I just used "parameters" in sentence! And I think is is correct usage! Do I get extra hipster points?) are the same. And, Sanskrit is far from a "primitive" language. Has cases no one has ever used, just in case the opportunity should come up. And Linear B? Much like Linear A, the bastardized accounting language of the Minoan civilization! All Cretans are liars! And it is true because one of them said so! So there! Minoan bull-riding Minotaur feeding bastards!

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