Working on a project or research that's too cool to keep to yourself?

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Crawl out of the musical rut you dug for yourself and listen to some bands you never heard of or heard of but thought you were too cool to enjoy.

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Such verbal irony conveys two opposed meanings, serious and scoffing, as if we're too cool to care much one way or the other.

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But the attitude remains too cool to attempt making a point, selling a feature, solving a problem or caring whether we receive a coherent message.

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" But she says she doesn't want to teach idioms that are too cutting-edge, such as using "sick" to mean "cool" or "epic" to mean "awesome.

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