Talk:Fake It 'Til You Make It/@comment-27578467-20180409181033/@comment-27578467-20180413071959

@Jonny Manz with the speed at which internet language and culture is developing, these sorts of arbitrary language trends are supplanted every few years; I'd wager by the time I have an interested child there will have been lots of slang terms come and gone, few if any having any actual communicative significance - just something that was cool for a few years in a song or on twitch and then forgotten. Even in the case of 'rad', the style it was popularized in has long since been comically quaint (think 90s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies - I don't hear that word very often nowadays, but when I do it's certainly not in the same way it was used then), and since most other children likely won't be saying those words, they'll probably only have esoteric usage. Also, though admittedly I only read the transcript of this episode, it seems like the writers wanted it understood in the way a teenager would understand it - as a fashionable word - and not as a 6-year-old might understand it for the arbitrary descriptor it is. Honestly, that to me is perhaps the most annoying thing about it. I can see the hand of the writer clear as day behind those lines.