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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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You Lit!

Hi! I follow a twitter account Damn Nature, You Lit!. They post animal photos.

What does "lit" mean here? Shine?

Thanks!

  

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"Lit" seems to be rather recent slang for "exceptional" or whatever—an empty term of approbation like the outmoded "cool" or "keen" or "groovy". S. urban ghetto talk: "You (are) lit.

  • "Lit" seems to be rather recent slang for "exceptional" or whatever—an empty term of approbation like the outmoded "cool" or "keen" or "groovy".
  • S.
  • urban ghetto talk: "You (are) lit.
  • The name is missing a required comma, by the way: ****, Nature, You Lit.
  • As it stands it is a command to execrate Nature, but that's Tweetish, not English.
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"Lit" seems to be rather recent slang for "exceptional" or whatever—an empty term of approbation like the outmoded "cool" or "keen" or "groovy". The syntax is also slangy, leaving the verb "are" unspoken in the manner of U.S. urban ghetto talk: "You (are) lit. The name is missing a required comma, by the way: ****, Nature, You Lit. As it stands it is a command to execrate Nature, but that's Tw

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