The word under consideration in this report is “wavy”. Wavy is defined as being cool and
chill with respect to reasonable situations. To a degree this word is indeed versatile in the sense
that it could be used colloquially when addressing peers and comrades. For example, my
response to roommate not having done the dishes from last night’s party would be “that not wavy
of you bro”. In this context, it would mean that it was not cool for him to not have done the
dishes after last night’s party. I intentionally used the term in passing with a friend a few days
ago to gauge his reaction. We were discussing whether he was prepared for his upcoming
midterm exams to which he replied “no”. I asked him if it was because he had not alotted enough
time to do the necessary studying to which he agreed. My response was “that not wavy bro, you
have to study ahead of time to have a chance at your exams”. His reaction was that of laughter as
he stopped me repeating what I had just said as if he must have incorrectly heard it. His laughter
did not bring me disappointment in the sense that he did not catch on immediately; it instead
made me realize that slang or metaphors used abundantly overtime, tend to inscribe themselves
in individual’s vernacular. I will say that it common that people fail to catch onto things instantly.
That is not to say that eventually novel terms become household names. Consequently, my
friends and I have consistently been using the term to describe essentially everything we talk
about. Notably, there is another aspect to the word that I think many new words also contain, and
that is the idea of expressiveness. Word and terms convey certain meaning that express certain
feelings or emotions, but wavy is multifaceted in nature. Wavy can be used as denoting
something as cool or awesome or denoting something as reasonable and correct. The
multifaceted nature of the word is what in my opinion attracts others to use it so frivolously.
When a friend of mine asked how I came up with the word, I earnestly told him that I was not
sure of I was the words originator but nevertheless I sought to connect my feelings of waves in
the ocean to that of expressive emotions or through metaphors. When you think of a wave do you
not think of calm and serenity?