Rawdogging - From Taboo to Trend: How Words Change Meaning

​We recently heard a term that seemed strange to us, but your generation may hear that word very differently.   Some of Jim’s students admitted to rawdogging most of their life experiences . This left the dynamic duo to muse, “If we’re ‘rawdogging life’—without reflection, without tools—what does that do to our well-being?” What would Victor Frankel say? Or Shakespeare or George Orwell? We tend to think of slang as something new—or even a decline in language. But Shakespeare was doing the same thing. The difference is, his slang became literature… and ours is still working its way through TikTok.   We laugh at modern slang like ‘rawdogging,’ but Shakespeare’s audiences were enjoying jokes with just as much edge. The difference? Time has sanitized them. What was once a wink… now feels like literature.   LEARN MORE   Ted Talk on how language shapes of thoghts: https://youtu.be/RKK7wGAYP6k?si=toDu888WvqYVF-Xc   The neuroscience of words: https://youtu.be/5-QQDTqLMWA?si=Eq8kmT64DYJcwjXV   How languages evolved: https://youtu.be/iWDKsHm6gTA?si=pAuPvnSlB1Om7e7g