Stoked ?

[mikey4444]

One of my nieces said that she was "stoked" about her forthcoming rock concert date.

Everybody, not just me, asked her what on earth she was talking about !

Its American slang apparently, for being awfully excited about something.

Why can't people speak Betty's English, instead of this infantile copying of everything American ?

[mikey4444]

I can honestly say that I have never heard the word "stoked" used in this context before !

[pastafreak]

Mikey...when my brit ex was first in the US doing a graduate degree, he had to teach undergrads. Hilarity greeted his use of "rubber" instead of erasure. :-0

[gness]

That's two of us then, Mikey.....☺....doesn't create the right image for me....x

[AB Editor]

I have, seems fine - as Talbot says, it's not like it doesn't have obvious and direct meaning?

[mikey4444]

ED....well it wasn't obvious to the other 10 family members, gathered together to watch the Wales-Scotland match, and they were all ages, not just old farts like me !

[mikey4444]

Rock and Roll would appear to have started with black churches in America, and was picked up by the emerging pop industry, not least by Chuck Berry !

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-etymology-behind-the-term-rock-and-roll

[hereIam]

As totally infantile as you saying 'Betty's English' ???