YOLO: Slang as Human Migration
Created by,Shawn heck, Sherlyn Tomas,Alvaro Molina,brianna Puchta
FAR Out: Cool,radical
What is "far out?"
Far-out has found it's way into music.
Far out starts to decline
Far out stopped seeing widespread usage in 1970, right when the hippie culture and thus dialect began to wane, due to several cultural shocks and the idea of being a hippie began to be attacked by other sub-groups.
Far Out today.
Far out is used by two groups: the adult generation from the mid 1950s through the early 1970s and the latest generation who use it predominately in an ironic way or in an effort to sound cool. These former group is largely limited to Vermont, Iowa, Idaho, Colorado, Kentucky and London (or the UK). Its limited use in these regions is most likely due to the facts that the meaning of ¨far out¨ has had a change of meaning from its original meaning to fit a broader spectrum of usage and slang shifts have not been quite as influence the large areas of Idaho, Colorado, and Kentucky.
Why Far Out matters:
Far out shows us how our culture tries to organize ourselves into defined groups through the medium of words and how a commonly used word seeps throughout culture until it has soaked itself in the offhand language of everyone within that demographic. For instance, the counter cultural movement of the hippies was the group to use far out. The hippies differed from other general groups in their word choice as in the same time period, ¨cool¨ and ¨awesome¨ were also used, just by others not within the hippie movement. Additionally, far out also proves how language evolves and replaces itself with newer synonymous of already used words. These new words are then used to group ourselves into different categories; yet, once that category becomes too large and no longer well defined, that language barrier is torn down only to be renewed once again.
Far out shows us how our culture tries to organize ourselves into defined groups through the medium of words and how a commonly used word seeps throughout culture until it has soaked itself in the offhand language of everyone within that demographic. For instance, the counter cultural movement of the hippies was the group to use far out. The hippies differed from other general groups in their word choice as in the same time period, ¨cool¨ and ¨awesome¨ were also used, just by others not within the hippie movement. Additionally, far out also proves how language evolves and replaces itself with newer synonymous of already used words. These new words are then used to group ourselves into different categories; yet, once that category becomes too large and no longer well defined, that language barrier is torn down only to be renewed once again.