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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 69 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Like the difference between "it's shit" and "it's the shit". Let Ismo explain

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Or fucking (good), and getting fucked (bad).

[–] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I thought this was new slang by the presentation, but is this the same shit we had when i grew up?

"Now we're cooking!" - good - things are going well

"Oh shit, youre cooked." - bad - youre done for

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Modern slang often seems to be recycled slang with a new cadence that makes it feel more Gen Z. There is some truly unique stuff too, but it's kind of funny how just changing how you use a word in a sentence or with a specific inflection can make it feel fresher.

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah you still got it oldie 🎉🎉🎉

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For me as a 39yo I feel like this one never really explaining. I'm pretty sure both cooked and cooking have been used in this way before. And I actually like it, I feel like they both express the thing pretty well.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ya, I'm sure both of these are at least decades old.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

One's goose being cooked is an idiom from at least 200 years ago. The transfer of that meaning to generally being a single adjective rather than a full phrase is probably at least 100 years old.

And as more evidence, here's an issue of Boys Life magazine, from August 1938, that uses the phrase "he's cooked" to describe someone who is going to lose a sporting event. So it's at least 87 years old, maybe older.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

100% cooked has been around forever, and cooking has been a jazz term since... well jazz days

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

I intentionally misuse these around kids and they get so riled up about it.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Meanwhile being "the bomb" is good, but "bombing" is bad.

But if you're "shit" that's bad but "the shit" is good.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also if you're fucking, good for you, but if you're fucked... Good for you as well.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

She's on to something, let her cook.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

As an Australian, "cooked" has been in my vernacular for over a decade atp.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I am thirteen and this is deep.