Why do Americans keep describing shit as 'lit'?

gats · August 30, 2015, 06:59:04 PM

Yeah Dat ginger is totes lit bro
My snap chat is lit

Bunch of jesu' I tell ya

Ásgeirr · August 30, 2015, 07:00:17 PM

the sacrificial fires are lit in my backyard

Dopameme · August 30, 2015, 07:02:46 PM

i got so lit this weekend bro

nͫiͤcͫeͤ · August 30, 2015, 07:04:43 PM

it just means hot

x Foman123 x · August 30, 2015, 07:05:37 PM

Its fuckin' lit

BC · August 30, 2015, 07:28:34 PM

Its hella lit in my dorm rn, @Nasty slide

Septy · August 30, 2015, 07:34:14 PM

bloody yanks

Dopameme · August 30, 2015, 07:47:27 PM

Quote from: BC on August 30, 2015, 07:28:34 PM

Its hella lit in my dorm rn, @Nasty slide

omw

BC · August 30, 2015, 08:42:21 PM

Quote from: 🍄Tryptameme🍄 on August 30, 2015, 07:47:27 PM

Quote from: BC on August 30, 2015, 07:28:34 PM
Its hella lit in my dorm rn, @Nasty slide
omw

yeet

The Hån · August 30, 2015, 08:48:34 PM

I never heard that. ever.

big sponge · August 30, 2015, 09:05:40 PM

I've never heard anybody say that ever.

True Turquoise · August 30, 2015, 09:13:03 PM

lit lit lit lit

BC · August 30, 2015, 09:18:00 PM

Its Lit, can you feel the buzz, Its Lit

Kitsune 狐 · August 30, 2015, 09:23:09 PM

Let an Atlantian explain it to you:

"get lit" means going to get so fucked up that you're not gonna remember the crazy shit you're about to do.

if something is "lit"
or
if someone is "getting lit"

it usually means pissed off and enraged about to strike.

"this chat is lit" is not something that ghettos would say, but..
That would mean this chat is on FIIREEE!

> Ryles saying it's hot.

Saleem · August 30, 2015, 09:55:22 PM

Don't confuse ghetto slang with American dialect.

rC · August 30, 2015, 09:56:31 PM

Quote from: 🍄Tryptameme🍄 on August 30, 2015, 07:02:46 PM

i got so lit this weekend bro

same dude, those parties were lit af

Kitsune 狐 · August 30, 2015, 10:01:59 PM

Quote from: Saleem on August 30, 2015, 09:55:22 PM

Don't confuse ghetto slang with American dialect.

Would you please define the difference?

>.<

Saleem · August 30, 2015, 10:05:08 PM

Quote from: Kitsunekun on August 30, 2015, 10:01:59 PM

Quote from: Saleem on August 30, 2015, 09:55:22 PM
Don't confuse ghetto slang with American dialect.

Would you please define the difference?

>.<

One is a subcategory, it is not used universally. I'm from Montana, none of us say any of that city slicker horse shit.

Kitsune 狐 · August 30, 2015, 10:06:22 PM

Quote from: Saleem on August 30, 2015, 10:05:08 PM

Quote from: Kitsunekun on August 30, 2015, 10:01:59 PM
Quote from: Saleem on August 30, 2015, 09:55:22 PM
Don't confuse ghetto slang with American dialect.

Would you please define the difference?

>.<
One is a subcategory, it is not used universally. I'm from Montana, none of us say any of that city slicker horse shit.

Oh my roots are also backwoodsy, but even then the language gets a bit jumbled, ya hear?

mojo · August 30, 2015, 10:19:54 PM

never heard it man but ill take your word for it i guess

Solonoid · August 31, 2015, 12:14:17 AM

Quote from: Saleem on August 30, 2015, 10:05:08 PM

Quote from: Kitsunekun on August 30, 2015, 10:01:59 PM
Quote from: Saleem on August 30, 2015, 09:55:22 PM
Don't confuse ghetto slang with American dialect.

Would you please define the difference?

>.<
One is a subcategory, it is not used universally. I'm from Montana, none of us say any of that city slicker horse shit.

Whatever man, you're practically Canadian anyway.

CK97 · August 31, 2015, 12:32:11 AM

I think it's pretty annoying.

Pippen · August 31, 2015, 12:33:12 AM

As a full blooded American, I have never heard that before.

Jono · August 31, 2015, 12:33:54 AM

My nephew just started kindergarten and he brought home a paper with a bunch of words on it, to help him learn how to read.

One of the words was "lit."

Gotta start them young :^)

Elegiac · September 21, 2015, 05:47:40 AM

YouTube

Luis · September 21, 2015, 06:12:24 AM

I thinks it's a nigger thing

challengerX · September 21, 2015, 06:20:03 AM

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Zonda · September 21, 2015, 06:45:22 AM

tbh pretty lit term fam