Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
stevegis_ssg@mas.to ("Steve Gisselbrecht") wrote:
When they made the movie "Heathers," they knew that any youth slang they used in the film would make it sound dated within a few years, so they made up completely new (but entirely, even *weirdly* plausible) youth slang just for the movie. But they did such a good job that we all started saying those things, and then in a few years it sounded dated.