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

29 replies

UnquietDad · 25/06/2009 22:09

Discuss.

At length if you wish.

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wrinklytum · 25/06/2009 22:11

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

Metatron · 25/06/2009 22:11
wrinklytum · 25/06/2009 22:11

Is.

Jacksmama · 25/06/2009 22:11

WTF does it mean??

PortAndLemon · 25/06/2009 22:12

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

EugeneHCrabs · 25/06/2009 22:13

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

UnquietDad · 25/06/2009 22:13

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".

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differentID · 25/06/2009 22:15

discuss?

UnquietDad · 25/06/2009 22:17

Pedants are my kind of people.

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GodzillasBumcheek · 25/06/2009 22:17

I hate it.

I even tried using it once.

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

Jacksmama · 25/06/2009 22:18

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

TheFallenMadonna · 25/06/2009 22:19

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 · 25/06/2009 22:20

Chillax.

Sounds like an enema brand.

DollyPardonme · 25/06/2009 22:21

I don't understand. What does this mean?

Er, whatever, chillax, guys.

AAARRRRNGG++++JJJHH

EugeneHCrabs · 25/06/2009 22:22

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 · 25/06/2009 22:23

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 · 25/06/2009 22:24

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

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ingles2 · 25/06/2009 22:25

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

Jacksmama · 25/06/2009 22:26

Ahhh. All becomes clear.

EugeneHCrabs · 25/06/2009 22:26

god oyu is an old fucker UQ

get with it

UnquietDad · 25/06/2009 22:26

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

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BruceSpringsteen · 29/06/2009 00:03

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

hobbgoblin · 29/06/2009 00:06

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

LovingtheSilverFox · 29/06/2009 00:17

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 · 29/06/2009 00:19

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.