"Chillax." Legitimate addition to the language, or horrifically twee bastardisation for which you should be shot?

[UnquietDad]

Discuss.

At length if you wish.

[wrinklytum]

Nevr heard the expression- s it a bastardisation of "Chill"

[Metatron]

[wrinklytum]

Is.

[Jacksmama]

WTF does it mean??

[PortAndLemon]

Have never heard it, but suspect my trigger finger would be itching...

[EugeneHCrabs]

I was told to chillax in pre2001
i thought it was rather witty

[UnquietDad]

I'd never heard it until... I saw it on here. And then after that, one of my writing students said it.

I can only assume it is a conflation of "chill" and "relax".

[differentID]

discuss?

[UnquietDad]

Pedants are my kind of people.

[GodzillasBumcheek]

I hate it.

I even tried using it once.

Had to wash my mouth out with vinegar to relieve the bad taste.

[Jacksmama]

What, are they rationing letters now so we have to have two words for the price of one?

[TheFallenMadonna]

However one feels about neologisms (is that what I mean? I'm scared of This Place), it's a word that surely must send blood pressure through the roof. I see it topped off with a passive aggressive smiley...

[GentleOtter]

Chillax.

Sounds like an enema brand.

[DollyPardonme]

I don't understand. What does this mean?

Er, whatever, chillax, guys.

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[EugeneHCrabs]

yes a kid told me in my old job
i left there on 2001
very drole
i like it
where have you lot BEEN

[ingles2]

you weren't actually considering using it were you UQD????
t'is only for emotionally repressed, 13yr -17yr old boys... I'm sure you don't fit in that category.

[UnquietDad]

Not at all! I saw it, hated it, and wanted the pleasure of seeing my fellow pedants shoot it down in flames.

[ingles2]

go on... admit it... you were tempted

[Jacksmama]

Ahhh. All becomes clear.

[EugeneHCrabs]

god oyu is an old fucker UQ

get with it

[UnquietDad]

On in dialogue for an emotionally repressed, 13-to-17-year-old boy.

[BruceSpringsteen]

I use it to wind up my 12 year old in a "isn't Mum dead cool?" kind of way

[hobbgoblin]

Scatillogical is similar (as in scatty/illogical). Has very dodgy alternative meaning but I like it. Chillax, on the other hand, is unnecessary.

[LovingtheSilverFox]

Chillax can only be said by those under 16, I know, my Guides told me, when I used it to be (cough, cough) down wiv de yoof.

Apparently the government is considering a tax on letters so you must contract as much as possible. Either that or text messaging is sending this country to the dogs.

[thumbwitch]

horrid bastardisation that should involve shooting in a slow and unpleasant fashion - extremities first. On anyone over 18, anyway - no accounting for the Yoof lingo.