Are curtain bangs getting a bit dated now ?

[Bluetitnest]

Do you think they look a bit mulletty or dated

FRINGE

See also mac n cheese instead of macaroni cheese.

Ugh. Hate the word bangs to describe a fringe.

Curtain bangs, for anyone wondering

So language doesn't evolve unless it's in a defined way that doesn't involve social media (the main way that people of different cultures communicate) or if people are being all try hard by using Americanisms.

It is evolving UK English if we adapt usage and words from another country, even if it is the dreaded America.

Ok then.

Struggling to believe people have this much difficulty with the term. The good news is that people are able to use whatever US/UK wording they like and it really isn't going to affect anyone else.

I don't think they're dated yet OP and can't see a resemblance to a mullet given, they're everywhere and I'm yet to see them referred to as anything other than 'curtain bangs' in UK magazines or online articles etc.

There's nothing wrong with rolling our eyes at the Americanisation of our language. It's a sad homogenisation rather than an evolving of our language.

That's a deliberate style? I'd have thought that was just people growing out their fringe...

It's snobbery. Nobody rolls their eyes at...hygge, for example, becoming a fairly common term in this country. On the other hand the sneering at Americanisms on here happens with monotonous regularity.

This really - it will be a sad day when there is no longer any regional or international variation.

Crucial difference being there is no direct equivalent of hygge, or schadenfreude or similar. So those are loan words that enrich English and our vocabularies. Bangs has a direct equivalent. It is a fringe. So saying bangs or diaper or ass removes a word that is perfectly functional and homogenises English across the world.

Urgh bangs indeed 🙄
I had to correct my DS the other day for calling a car park a bloody parking lot, wth?!!!!

My Danish neighbour does. As she says, what a lot of nonsense about a few candles and a blanket

I can't stand people wanging on about hygge I have to say*. Always sounds so smug in a curated weekend supplements kinda way. It seems to have died down recently thankfully. 2015-2020 was peak hygge.

*exception of course for Hygge Tygge from Motherland!

This is what I'm
Asking my hairdresser for next week the bangs! Shame I don't have her face or body to with 😂

Bangs and a fringe are not entirely the same thing; the side bangs can't be called a fringe.

OK, firstly language is not a living thing! It doesn't contain cells, it doesn't respire, it is just a selection of sounds.
And secondly, adopting American words because you've heard them on Netflix is not language evolving. It's people trying to be cool.

Eye rolling wouldn't need to happen if people used the correct words.
If you're English, use English words. Stop trying to be cool by using American words. Most of the people on this site cant blame extreme youth. They're women in their 20s-60s who've happily used words like "nappy" and "fringe" all their lives. Why do they suddenly think "I know, I'll start using a different word"?

Stop trying to be cool by using American words.

but you're cool with 'cool'

It's a grown out fringe. That's what I've always asked for.

(await being told 'well aaaactually 'cool' is Shakespearean' even though as the commonly used slang word we all now and use today, it's undoubtedly American)

I use the word cool because it's fitting with the way in which people are trying to be "cool" ie American. Also cool is a kind of slang anyway. It's not a basic noun like fringe and nappy.

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When did people in the UK start calling fringes 'bangs'? It's such an American term. No judgement, genuinely curious as never heard anyone here talk about bangs.
Bang where I'm from means a shag... which now I think about it is also another haircut isn't it? 😂

Maybe the same time "gotten" "season" rather than "series", and "off of" became popular here.