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Is the word “Yuppie” negative/ironic?
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"You are like a Yuppie". Is this an insult or is it neutral.
I have always thought that the word itself is neutral
but Oxford dictionaries categorize it as derogatory.
meaning word-usage
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"You are like a Yuppie". Is this an insult or is it neutral.
I have always thought that the word itself is neutral
but Oxford dictionaries categorize it as derogatory.
meaning word-usage
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I believe it to be somewhat worse than neutral. In that sense closer to nimby than to millennial for instance. Maybe it started neutral, but I suspect that over time it migrated slightly in the 'worse' direction. Millennial may suffer the same development.
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Well, from what I remember, it stood for "young, upwardly mobile professional" or something similar, so I don't think it started out derogatory; on the other hand, I knew people who used it that way to criticize the falling away from 60's think.
– Cascabel
6 hours ago
You are like Yuppie is primarily neither an insult nor "neutral". Mostly it's just a clear indication that the speaker isn't a native Anglophone. Ditto, for example, You are like hippy.
– FumbleFingers
6 hours ago
@FumbleFingers - Actually, it could be a Valleyism: "You are, like, yuppie." Likely a mild insult, if spoken by a hippyish person.
– Hot Licks
4 hours ago
@HotLicks, but yuppie is a noun (in my experience). You can be a yuppie. You can't "be yuppie".
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"You are like a Yuppie". Is this an insult or is it neutral.
I have always thought that the word itself is neutral
but Oxford dictionaries categorize it as derogatory.
meaning word-usage
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"You are like a Yuppie". Is this an insult or is it neutral.
I have always thought that the word itself is neutral
but Oxford dictionaries categorize it as derogatory.
meaning word-usage
meaning word-usage
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I believe it to be somewhat worse than neutral. In that sense closer to nimby than to millennial for instance. Maybe it started neutral, but I suspect that over time it migrated slightly in the 'worse' direction. Millennial may suffer the same development.
– Keep these mind
6 hours ago
2
Well, from what I remember, it stood for "young, upwardly mobile professional" or something similar, so I don't think it started out derogatory; on the other hand, I knew people who used it that way to criticize the falling away from 60's think.
– Cascabel
6 hours ago
You are like Yuppie is primarily neither an insult nor "neutral". Mostly it's just a clear indication that the speaker isn't a native Anglophone. Ditto, for example, You are like hippy.
– FumbleFingers
6 hours ago
@FumbleFingers - Actually, it could be a Valleyism: "You are, like, yuppie." Likely a mild insult, if spoken by a hippyish person.
– Hot Licks
4 hours ago
@HotLicks, but yuppie is a noun (in my experience). You can be a yuppie. You can't "be yuppie".
– The Photon
4 hours ago
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I believe it to be somewhat worse than neutral. In that sense closer to nimby than to millennial for instance. Maybe it started neutral, but I suspect that over time it migrated slightly in the 'worse' direction. Millennial may suffer the same development.
– Keep these mind
6 hours ago
2
Well, from what I remember, it stood for "young, upwardly mobile professional" or something similar, so I don't think it started out derogatory; on the other hand, I knew people who used it that way to criticize the falling away from 60's think.
– Cascabel
6 hours ago
You are like Yuppie is primarily neither an insult nor "neutral". Mostly it's just a clear indication that the speaker isn't a native Anglophone. Ditto, for example, You are like hippy.
– FumbleFingers
6 hours ago
@FumbleFingers - Actually, it could be a Valleyism: "You are, like, yuppie." Likely a mild insult, if spoken by a hippyish person.
– Hot Licks
4 hours ago
@HotLicks, but yuppie is a noun (in my experience). You can be a yuppie. You can't "be yuppie".
– The Photon
4 hours ago
I believe it to be somewhat worse than neutral. In that sense closer to nimby than to millennial for instance. Maybe it started neutral, but I suspect that over time it migrated slightly in the 'worse' direction. Millennial may suffer the same development.
– Keep these mind
6 hours ago
I believe it to be somewhat worse than neutral. In that sense closer to nimby than to millennial for instance. Maybe it started neutral, but I suspect that over time it migrated slightly in the 'worse' direction. Millennial may suffer the same development.
– Keep these mind
6 hours ago
2
2
Well, from what I remember, it stood for "young, upwardly mobile professional" or something similar, so I don't think it started out derogatory; on the other hand, I knew people who used it that way to criticize the falling away from 60's think.
– Cascabel
6 hours ago
Well, from what I remember, it stood for "young, upwardly mobile professional" or something similar, so I don't think it started out derogatory; on the other hand, I knew people who used it that way to criticize the falling away from 60's think.
– Cascabel
6 hours ago
You are like Yuppie is primarily neither an insult nor "neutral". Mostly it's just a clear indication that the speaker isn't a native Anglophone. Ditto, for example, You are like hippy.
– FumbleFingers
6 hours ago
You are like Yuppie is primarily neither an insult nor "neutral". Mostly it's just a clear indication that the speaker isn't a native Anglophone. Ditto, for example, You are like hippy.
– FumbleFingers
6 hours ago
@FumbleFingers - Actually, it could be a Valleyism: "You are, like, yuppie." Likely a mild insult, if spoken by a hippyish person.
– Hot Licks
4 hours ago
@FumbleFingers - Actually, it could be a Valleyism: "You are, like, yuppie." Likely a mild insult, if spoken by a hippyish person.
– Hot Licks
4 hours ago
@HotLicks, but yuppie is a noun (in my experience). You can be a yuppie. You can't "be yuppie".
– The Photon
4 hours ago
@HotLicks, but yuppie is a noun (in my experience). You can be a yuppie. You can't "be yuppie".
– The Photon
4 hours ago
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The term soon acquired a negative connotation according to Etymonline:
Yuppie:
1982, acronym from "young urban professional," ousting competition from yumpie (1984), from "young upward-mobile professional," and yap (1984), from "young aspiring professional." The word was felt as an insult by 1985.
From Wikipedia:
In a 1985 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Theressa Kersten at SRI International described a "yuppie backlash" by people who fit the demographic profile yet express resentment of the label: "You're talking about a class of people who put off having families so they can make payments on the SAABs ... To be a Yuppie is to be a loathsome undesirable creature". Leo Shapiro, a market researcher in Chicago, responded, "Stereotyping always winds up being derogatory. It doesn't matter whether you are trying to advertise to farmers, Hispanics or Yuppies, no one likes to be neatly lumped into some group."
The word lost most of its political connotations and, particularly after the 1987 stock market crash, gained the negative socio-economic connotations that it sports today. On April 8, 1991, Time magazine proclaimed the death of the "yuppie" in a mock obituary.
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The term soon acquired a negative connotation according to Etymonline:
Yuppie:
1982, acronym from "young urban professional," ousting competition from yumpie (1984), from "young upward-mobile professional," and yap (1984), from "young aspiring professional." The word was felt as an insult by 1985.
From Wikipedia:
In a 1985 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Theressa Kersten at SRI International described a "yuppie backlash" by people who fit the demographic profile yet express resentment of the label: "You're talking about a class of people who put off having families so they can make payments on the SAABs ... To be a Yuppie is to be a loathsome undesirable creature". Leo Shapiro, a market researcher in Chicago, responded, "Stereotyping always winds up being derogatory. It doesn't matter whether you are trying to advertise to farmers, Hispanics or Yuppies, no one likes to be neatly lumped into some group."
The word lost most of its political connotations and, particularly after the 1987 stock market crash, gained the negative socio-economic connotations that it sports today. On April 8, 1991, Time magazine proclaimed the death of the "yuppie" in a mock obituary.
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The term soon acquired a negative connotation according to Etymonline:
Yuppie:
1982, acronym from "young urban professional," ousting competition from yumpie (1984), from "young upward-mobile professional," and yap (1984), from "young aspiring professional." The word was felt as an insult by 1985.
From Wikipedia:
In a 1985 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Theressa Kersten at SRI International described a "yuppie backlash" by people who fit the demographic profile yet express resentment of the label: "You're talking about a class of people who put off having families so they can make payments on the SAABs ... To be a Yuppie is to be a loathsome undesirable creature". Leo Shapiro, a market researcher in Chicago, responded, "Stereotyping always winds up being derogatory. It doesn't matter whether you are trying to advertise to farmers, Hispanics or Yuppies, no one likes to be neatly lumped into some group."
The word lost most of its political connotations and, particularly after the 1987 stock market crash, gained the negative socio-economic connotations that it sports today. On April 8, 1991, Time magazine proclaimed the death of the "yuppie" in a mock obituary.
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The term soon acquired a negative connotation according to Etymonline:
Yuppie:
1982, acronym from "young urban professional," ousting competition from yumpie (1984), from "young upward-mobile professional," and yap (1984), from "young aspiring professional." The word was felt as an insult by 1985.
From Wikipedia:
In a 1985 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Theressa Kersten at SRI International described a "yuppie backlash" by people who fit the demographic profile yet express resentment of the label: "You're talking about a class of people who put off having families so they can make payments on the SAABs ... To be a Yuppie is to be a loathsome undesirable creature". Leo Shapiro, a market researcher in Chicago, responded, "Stereotyping always winds up being derogatory. It doesn't matter whether you are trying to advertise to farmers, Hispanics or Yuppies, no one likes to be neatly lumped into some group."
The word lost most of its political connotations and, particularly after the 1987 stock market crash, gained the negative socio-economic connotations that it sports today. On April 8, 1991, Time magazine proclaimed the death of the "yuppie" in a mock obituary.
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The term soon acquired a negative connotation according to Etymonline:
Yuppie:
1982, acronym from "young urban professional," ousting competition from yumpie (1984), from "young upward-mobile professional," and yap (1984), from "young aspiring professional." The word was felt as an insult by 1985.
From Wikipedia:
In a 1985 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Theressa Kersten at SRI International described a "yuppie backlash" by people who fit the demographic profile yet express resentment of the label: "You're talking about a class of people who put off having families so they can make payments on the SAABs ... To be a Yuppie is to be a loathsome undesirable creature". Leo Shapiro, a market researcher in Chicago, responded, "Stereotyping always winds up being derogatory. It doesn't matter whether you are trying to advertise to farmers, Hispanics or Yuppies, no one likes to be neatly lumped into some group."
The word lost most of its political connotations and, particularly after the 1987 stock market crash, gained the negative socio-economic connotations that it sports today. On April 8, 1991, Time magazine proclaimed the death of the "yuppie" in a mock obituary.
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I believe it to be somewhat worse than neutral. In that sense closer to nimby than to millennial for instance. Maybe it started neutral, but I suspect that over time it migrated slightly in the 'worse' direction. Millennial may suffer the same development.
– Keep these mind
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Well, from what I remember, it stood for "young, upwardly mobile professional" or something similar, so I don't think it started out derogatory; on the other hand, I knew people who used it that way to criticize the falling away from 60's think.
– Cascabel
6 hours ago
You are like Yuppie is primarily neither an insult nor "neutral". Mostly it's just a clear indication that the speaker isn't a native Anglophone. Ditto, for example, You are like hippy.
– FumbleFingers
6 hours ago
@FumbleFingers - Actually, it could be a Valleyism: "You are, like, yuppie." Likely a mild insult, if spoken by a hippyish person.
– Hot Licks
4 hours ago
@HotLicks, but yuppie is a noun (in my experience). You can be a yuppie. You can't "be yuppie".
– The Photon
4 hours ago