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So where did "sweet" or "cool" come from?
Morning guys,
On Australia Day 2007 I started a linguistic experiment. I have been thinking that at some time, someone said "cool" for the first time...and it caught on. Those of us lucky, or unlucky, enough to have teenagers will have heard "sweet". The list of these words is probably infinite if you had the time to research it.
I have therefore started a little experiment. I am going to try to say "smooth" every time someone says something where you could normally reply with "cool" or "sweet". I will be interested to see how long before a total stranger replies with MY PHRASE. I will have left my mark on our language.
Please feel free to try to propagate "the word" and take part in my little experiment. Our teenage daughter thinks it is pretty dumb, maybe even embarassing...but so is everything we do anyway, and more so many of the things she does!
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