Spend a day on the hill or just 10 minutes in a lift line and you’re going to learn some lingo. It works much like using international travel to learn a foreign language; spend enough time with indigenous people and you will slowly but surely absorb their language.
Now, can you remember the “Sh*t ____ s say” viral trend from the earlier part of this decade? Of course you do. Who could forget? Suddenly, if you were a surfer, a yogi, a skier, anything at all circa 2011, the hilarity of your peoples’ vernacular was exposed to the rest of the world. The things that seemed like second nature, ho-hum, run-of-the-mill icebreakers for insiders looked ridiculous once put under the microscope of an internet audience. And let’s be real, outdoor athletes abuse the English language, each in their own respective way unique to each sport.
Australian Olympian Scotty James has been called on to revive it all. Kind of. James admits he’s not fully in on the shit snowboarders say these days. But at least one thing is very clear if we want to compare Scotty’s modern take on our vocabulary and the shit snowboarders were saying when this was trending almost a decade ago: “dude” must still be our favorite word.
