The new buzzword amongst British youth these days is making the rounds in varying contexts of the everyday environment. The word in question: “safe”, is commonly used to describe something that is stable, secure, structured; or any other ‘s’ related adjective that fittingly posits it in a similar frame of reference.

‘That’s safe’, ‘He’s safe’, ‘It’s going to be safe’ can all be encountered in any confrontation with today’s youth culture. The terms use itself does fittingly have the same connotations. To say one is ‘safe’ is to say they are a cool creature, not likely to be irritating or unruly. In this way the words usage is much the same in similarity to its traditional use: ‘it’s locked in a safe place’. Again, to say: ‘it’s going to be safe’, is supposed to appear a tempting prospect to those it concerns who may feel the topic in question is going to be boring or a waste of time. Those who should amply respond: “No way man, that’s going to be well unsafe”.

New speakers to the language may be particularly confused when encountering the term in this new colloquial realm. People are not referring to safe houses, or safety first, or safety in numbers, it is rather simply that they are using it is an alternative to the tired adjective ‘cool’. Finally after sharing this knowledge I urge all my readers out there to be safe, not from sexual predators, not from drugs, not from sexual diseases, but rather to just be safe, be cool, be relaxed. Be Safe!