e Rise and Fall of e “Vibe”

e word vibe is an individual emotional atmosphere you get from a person, place or thing. “Such as this guy is good vibes”, “this place is giving me bad vibes” or “the music is giving me crazy vibes.” e word vibe is an apocope of the word vibraphone which is a percussion instrument used in the 1920s to present day. e word vibe is a New York slang. My dad and I are from Brooklyn, and if I were to do something wrong he would usually say, “yo the stuff you are doing is bad vibes”. Meaning that the stuff is going to get me into trouble, it’ s a bad look, or it’ s messing with everyone ’ s mood. e word vibe has multiple meanings; therefore, if someone were to ask “what’ s the vibes”, they are asking “what are you doing today” or they are asking “do want to make any plans today”. e word vibe mainly revolves around a person ’ s mood. When I used the word vibe I would usually say “ you ’ re bad vibes”. Vibes can also be used in a romantic way. If two people are talking and the boy says to you “I rock with your vibes”, he is saying that he likes your personality, or he likes the way you treat him. Vibes are just everywhere. A vibe is the energy people give off, and the energy you ’ re giving back. It’ s the way people treat each other. e word “energy” is also very similar to the word “Vibe”. “Energy” is a person ’ s attitude towards you. If a person is mistreating you they are giving “terrible energy” or “Bad vibes”. If a person is treating you well, they are feeding off “positive energy” or “great vibes”. Vibes represent a person ’ s mood, attitude, personality, and plans for the day. But vibes should never be bad, because bad vibes are not a vibe.

People also nowadays use the phrase “check your vibe”. For instance, if someone says, “vibe check this man”, they are going to conduct an intense inspection that analyzes your vibe and if you fail, then prepare for the consequences but if you pass, then you may conduct your own vibe check. Vibe checks are a very important part of today’ s society because vibe checks are used to help obtain peace in a certain area. Peace can be achieved from the vibe check because the people conducting the vibe check are concerned for your safety and if you fail, it might not even

be your fault. You could be having a stressful day due to stress from a girlfriend or family issues or even an aggravating class. Some teachers or classes can really mess up a kid’ s day causing him to fail that vibe check. e guys will help you achieve happiness though. is phrase has really developed throughout history turning a word that was supposed to mean vibraphone into the instrument into a controversial inspection from a person to another person.

Vibe has been a word that has existed throughout the past couple years of my life and the word has played a part in how my group and I speak to each other and other people. Although this word can only be practically used among friends and other teens it still has a great impact on how we speak. is word can make you seem less credible because most adults have no idea what the word means or how to use it. roughout time more people have started to use it as it becomes more relevant. Celebrities use the word vibes in a common phrase, “You Know e Vibes”. is phrase is also commonly abbreviated as “YKTV”, meaning, “you know what’ s good” or “you know what’ s going on.” Most rappers will use vibes to explain how someone is acting or how they feel on a certain topic. Finally, the key part of slang is its instability so no one can guarantee that the word “vibe” will survive in present day vocabulary but soon it will be replaced with a new word like “bad juju” and “negative wizard” which both mean bad vibes or “narek”, “posiluv” or “vitting” which means good vibes but only time will tell when it will or if it will even change over time or what it will change to.

Nincompoop: e Strange Case of A Con icted Word

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Nincompoop is not used commonly in the English language anymore, but only a few hundred years ago, it was a term frequently used to describe a “simpleton” or “foolish person”. We are studying this word because we like its pronunciation and spelling, and are fond of its research implications. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was introduced in 1668 and has been around ever since. e meaning of the word has stayed the same since them, but its spelling has changed over time. When the word was first introduced in 1668, the word was spelled “nickumpoop”. e word was used the same way back than as it’s used today. For example, the word was first introduced in a passage that stated, “ e ship of fools fully fraught and richly laden with asses, fools, jack-daws, ninnihammers, coxcombs, slender-wits, shallowbrains, paper-skuls, simpletons, nickumpoops, wiseakers, dunces, and blockheads.” is demonstrates how the definition of the word has stayed the same even since 1668. In this context, one can tell that the word still means a “simpleton” or silly/foolish person, as it is clumped together with many other insults. However, while here the spelling was