2000 Phrases In English
Cecelia Seiner
Y2K was the beginning of the century. Hence, people were thrilled and excited to see what the future looked like. And they have been using countless amazing words, phrases, and idioms to express their emotions. Here is our list of popular slang from the 2000s that you can use even today.
In the 00s, teenagers used this word to describe someone or something suspicious and not trustworthy. And today, you can also hear it from some people since it is one of those 2000 slang words that are coming back. For example:
The words and terms mentioned above were mostly used in offline conversations. But since the 00s were the time of the beginning of the Internet, social networks, and the first messengers, a lot of slang expressions were used only online. And there were so many that we devoted a whole section to them.
The 00s were the period of Paris Hilton and Mean Girls, and everyone was trying to be a little nasty then. This passive-aggressive phrase was used to tell someone to chill and relax, especially if the person was really annoying. For example:
This is a joke phrase that is used to add dirty context to something innocent and casual. Mainly, people in the 00s used it (and use it today) when someone says things that can be said in the bedroom (even without this context). If you enjoy the Office as much as we do, you know that Michael Scott is the character who extremely liked it. For example:
Congratulations! Now you know enough of the early 2000s sayings and slang terms to become cooler than anyone you know. But since they are not as common now as they were then, you need to use some material to reinforce this knowledge. And the best way to do so is to watch some movies and TV shows that were well-liked in the 00s.
According to The Numbers, the most popular genres people liked in the 00s were drama, comedy, and adventure. Most such films are still in demand nowadays, especially among English learners. This is due to the simple vocabulary and the variety of slang terms that are easy to understand, even for those who are not fluent in English. So, what to watch to learn the 00s slang?
Teen movies are probably the best way to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the 2000s and learn slang, popular expressions, and the lifestyle of the youth. And Mean Girls is a legendary film that is still popular and probably will be favored years later. Did you know that some people still celebrate Mean Girls Day every October? Yeah, that is how impressive this movie is.
Even though the movie is iconic, it also provides a lot of benefits for those who are studying English. Like most of the films in this genre, it also contains countless slang expressions and simple phrases that you can easily understand. And it is extremely fun, so if you want not only to learn something new but also have a good time, this movie is a perfect choice.
And now we are back to the teenage movies. This is one of our personal favorites since we really like Ann Hathaway. The story of the teen girl who has unexpectedly become a princess of the whole country will not leave you untouched.
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Literally, any teen comedy, comedy, TV show, or crime drama. Our personal favorite movies are Mean Girls, Freaky Friday, Princess Diaries, The Departed, 17 Again, and White Chicks. As for TV series, we highly recommend watching Friends, Sex and the City, How I met your mother, The Big Bang Theory, and The Office.
Microsoft security guru Robert Hensing hit a home run his first time at bat with his very first blog post. In it, he advocates that passwords, as we traditionally think of them, should not be used:So here's the deal - I don't want you to use passwords, I want you to use pass-PHRASES. What is a pass-phrase you ask? Let's take a look at some of my recent pass-phrases that I've used inside Microsoft for my 'password'.
- "If we weren't all crazy we would go insane" (Jimmy Buffett rules)*
- "Send the pain below!"
- "Mean people suck!"
- They meet all password complexity requirements due to the use of upper / lowercase letters and punctuation (you don't HAVE to use numbers to meet password complexity requirements)
- They are so freaking easy for me to remember it's not even funny. For me, I find it MUCH easier to remember a sentence from a favorite song or a funny quote than to remember 'xYaQxrz!' (which b.t.w. is long enough and complex enough to meet our internal complexity requirements, but is weak enough to not survive any kind of brute-force password grinding attack with say LC5, let alone a lookup table attack). That password would not survive sustained attack with LC5 long enough to matter so in my mind it's pointless to use a password like that. You may as well just leave your password blank.
- I dare say that even with the most advanced hardware you are not going to guesss, crack, brute-force or pre-compute these passwords in the 70 days or so that they were around (remember you only need the password to survive attack long enough for you to change the password).
Windows 2k and higher support passwords of up to 127 unicode characters. So this will work on virtually every Windows network in existence. Reggie Burnett, however, has some doubts:The reason I think that Robert's logic is a bit flawed is that a pass phrase is likely to contain readable words (else it really isn't a pass phrase) and therefore can be attacked not at the letter level but at the word level. According to various sites I visited, the average English speaker knows about 20,000 words but uses only about 2,000 of those in a given week. Since the user is likely to use words they are used to, we can safely say that most pass phrases will contain one of about 5,000 words. And, if a pass phrase contains 4 words, then our possibilities are 5000^4. I'll spare you the math, but you'll see that the cracker that is trying pass phrases has alot fewer possibilities to try. Now, of course, using more words will increase the security, but we should also note that since the attack is at the word level, the length of the word would not matter. "Mean people suck" would be just as secure as "Extremely important password". They are both 3 words and both use common words.While I see his point, he's completely ignoring the capitalization and punctuation in "Mean people suck!". I do agree that for the best security, your passphrase should include capitalization, punctuation, and possibly even numbers if you can work them in there in a logical way. Andy Johns elaborates:As I've often mentioned, I'm a consultant and I see a lot of crap out in the wild. By far the most annoying crap I see is around passwords. The more paranoid the network admins (or security council, or board, or whoever sets the rules) the more obscure the passwords must be, and the more often they need to be changed. What these people fail to realize is the average human worker just wants to do their job, and can't remember Syz8#K3! as a password. So what do they do.... Out comes the post-it-note on the desk, or in the drawer, or under the keyboard, or the file on the desktop called "passwords.txt". Some workers try and be smart by leaving out a letter, or writing it backwards.... but still, if your password is so hard to remember that you have to write it down, then you have no security at all, and a significant portion of your support staff/costs must be spent dealing with resetting passwords.A pass-phrase of "this is my password and it's for my eyes only" is far easier to remember than Syz8#K3! and also far more secure, and nearly takes the same amount of time to type. Need more security, throw in a few caps, or numbers: "My address is 1234 Main street" or "Jenny's number is 867-5309". Yes, I'm breaking rules about not including personal information in a password, but remember, 1) these are examples, and 2) a pass-phrase is different. A password of "Chris" because your son's name is Chris is a bad password, but a password of: "My oldest son's name is Chris and he is 10 years old" is a good password.
Passphrases are clearly more usable than traditional "secure" passwords. They are also highly likely to be more secure. Even naive worst-case passphrases like "this is my password" aren't all that hackable, at least when compared to their single word equivalents, eg, "password".Easier on the user, harder for hackers: that's a total no-brainer. I've adopted passphrases across the board on all the systems I use.* ugh
For example, ordering anything on the internet and paying more than the cost of the item in shipping fees is pretty depressing. As a general rule, that puts a halt to my eCommerce experience before I press the "checkout" button. The last time I paid $15 for a great t-shirt and paid $16 to ship it was 2000-never.
I've never heard this phrase before, but what it sounds like the speaker is trying to say is that they've never before done whatever "it" refers to. For example if you said "The last time I did [x] was 2002," you'd be stating the last time you did it. "two thousand-never" (instead of "two thousand-two") seems to be a funny way of saying you've never done something. So I'd say the sentence probably has identical meaning if you just remove the "2000-" and say "The last time I did [x] was never."
Now note that this isn't grammatically correct; you can't actually say "The last time I did [x] was never." The correct thing to say would be "I have never done [x]". But the joke still stands, I think.
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