I said in my last post that language is constantly changing. So this week here's a couple words that have changed meaning or come into being in my whole 24 years of living. (Note: formal definitions listed definitions are found on google.)
1. Yeet - verb/ adj. (probably)
Lets start with one of my favorites. Yeet, is a word that came from a video on an app called Vine around 2015. It features a girl being handed an empty soda can and throwing it into a crowded staircase while exclaiming 'yeet.' Yeet is usually shouted when throwing something, but it has also evolved/ devolved into an excited word for 'yes' or 'let's go.' I've heard it used in casual cases such as:
"Hey, I'm going to yeet over to walmart, want to come?"
"Yeet! Let me grab my shoes."
2. Canon- noun
a collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine.
Honestly, I had to google the actual definition when I heard this in college because I learned the internet definition first. I genuinely thought it already had a meaning. When you say that someone is canon, it is usually referring to a couple in a story falling in love, and when they finally get together they are considered canon. I've also heard canon as referred to what is accepted to have happened in a story. Whether perhaps it did actually happen or someone came up a very plausible fan theory. It goes in hand with the image of 'ships.' Likely derived from 'relationships.' Again going back to a couples in a story, any possible dating relationships are considered ships, so when they finally end up together they become canon. It sounds a bit like pirate talk if you don't know the meanings.
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