Meanings
- uncountableLanguage that is trendy and cool, or aims to be.
These messages are written in a creative blend of coolspeak and text message language.
2008, David Buckingham, editor, Youth, Identity, and Digital Media, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 292 more examples
The counterculture has become the lunch-counter culture. You can see this in ads that exhibit what one journalist has called "group coolspeak." Consumers are bombarded with countercultural commandments: Just do it! Be yourself! Be bold! Think different! Never blend in! Do exactly as we tell you!
2004, Paul McFedries, Word Spy: The Word Lover's Guide to Modern Culture, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 102Novelist Chuck Palahniuk's fans have crowned him a prince of edge for a style that is, according to one reviewer, “equal parts potent imagery, nihilistic coolspeak, and doped-out craziness.”
2007, Arthur Plotnik, Sound & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style, Random House, →ISBN
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