Semantic shift in progress?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 8 23:26:52 UTC 2011


Found on the Web,

"I’m _not hip on_ the fact that the company requires you to sign up."

Influenced by BrE _not keen on_, perhaps?

FWIW, if I were in a conversation in which it was hip to use _hip_,
I'd probably say,

"I _can't get ready for_ the fact that the company requires you to sign up."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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