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TIME gives you a primer
on slang that Pharrell likes enough to put in the titles of his songs
On Wednesday, Pharrell dropped a video for his new single, “Come
Get It Bae,” which may immediately raise some questions, such as “Come get
what?” and “What in the world does bae mean, anyway?”
The short answer: Though this word was used in
the 1500s to refer to sheep sounds, today bae is used as a
term of endearment, often referring to your boyfriend or girlfriend. Or perhaps
a prospect who might one day hold such a lofty position.
Others argue that bae is simply a shortened version of babe. Slangsters do love to
embrace the “dropped letter” versions of slang words. When cool gets old, there is coo. When crazy gets tiresome, there is cray.
The term’s usage took off in 2013 and continues to rise. And
as more people say bae,
it’s likely that the meaning will shift in any case. When words get popular,
one of two things tends to happen, as computational linguist Tyler Schnoebelen
explains: “As it gets picked up by more people, its meaning will either calcify
or bleach.” That is, harden into meaning only one very specific thing, or
expand to embrace a range of meanings.
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