History TotallyRadical / Literature

* All of Creator/JamesPatterson's young adult novels [[Literature/MaximumRide suffer]] [[WitchAndWizard from]] [[Literature/TheDangerousDaysOfDanielX this]].

** In a milder example, on one occasion he tells Michael "that's how I roll," much to Michael's amusement (given that by this point in the series Harry is pushing forty). Then it's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when Harry claims he heard Molly (Michael's daughter and Harry's apprentice) use it, so "it must be cool." Not a totally straight example, though, since he actually used the phrase correctly.

* Probably the oldest example here, Creator/PGWodehouse used a lot of slang from the 1890s in his works.
** Wodehouse falls gruesomely into this trope when he writes American characters, who are constantly, clumsily, forcing words like "gee" and "okay" into their speech.
** Probably intentionally. While a keen observer of human nature, playing with language was Wodehouse's priority and he tended to write characters as rather broad archetypes or even stereotypes. The above anachronisms serve as a shorthand for each character type and tend not to detract from the overall sparkling dialogue. And his English characters are guiltier of these by far!

* Likewise, the band in ''The Last Days'' use the word "fawesome". Over. And Over. And Over. And Over. And Over. It's not clear if the author know that that is an abbreviation of 'fuck awesome'.

* Likewise, the band in ''The Last Days'' use the word "fawesome". Over. And Over. And Over. And Over. And Over.
** Does the author know that that is an abbreviation of fuck awesome?

* Subverted in Garth Nix's ''KeysToTheKingdom'', when the characters seem to use offbeat slang. If the reader pays attention, they realize the series is actually TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, and it's not confirmed that the characters are even speaking English.

* In HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/{{Timeline 191}}'' series, the majority of which is set between 1914 and 1945, we get an early 20th century version that could be considered a subtle parody: numerous characters comment on the word "swell" replacing "bully," and their difficulty adjusting.

** "Execrable," by the way, is [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar basically the polite way to say "shitty."]]

* Arguably the most horrifying thing about Creator/StephenKing's ''The Langoliers'' is the dialogue given to teenage girl Bethany Simms ("Totally tubular!").
* In Max Shulman's comic novel ''Rally Round the Flag, Boys!'', Comfort Goodpasture speaks in what the narrative calls "an execrable mishmash of teen-age patois." The narrative sometimes imitates her habit of affixing "-sville" to adjectives and buzzwords.

* In ''FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'', Raoul Duke picks up some of the literature available at the anti-drug conference and flips through it. He notes that none of what is described as "drug culture slang" is correct, specifically noting the use of the word "tea shades" for sunglasses.

* In ''{{Literature/Reconstructing Amelia}}'' the actual teenagers mostly avoid this in their dialog and texts, which sound just about right for the time period (late 2013), but a popular (and unauthorized by the school) gossip blog called [=gRaCeFULLY=] is full of this. It turns out to be [[spoiler:a clue that the blog is run not by a student, but a teacher]].

* In the ''{{Dune}}'' prequels there are things called 'Cymeks,' apparently trying to combine 'cyborg' and 'mech' with a [[XtremeKoolLetterz Really Kool K]]. Cybernetic ''and'' mechanical, huh?

* In ''{{Literature/Reconstructing Amelia}}'' the actual teenagers mostly avoid this in their dialog and texts, which sound just about right as far as the time period (late 2013), but a popular (and unauthorized by the school) gossip blog called [=gRaCeFULLY=] is full of this. It turns out to be [[spoiler:a clue that the blog is run not by a student, but a teacher]].

* RobertBloch was rather prone to this in his short stories when he was sending up beats and hippies, making it more like Totally Hip, Daddy-O or Totally Groovy, Man.

* All of [[JamesPatterson James Patterson's]] young adult novels [[Literature/MaximumRide suffer]] [[WitchAndWizard from]] [[Literature/TheDangerousDaysOfDanielX this]].

* Turned UpToEleven in a series of children's novels based on the UK SonicTheHedgehog comics, where even the ''narration'' is done this way. "Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory" also included what one can only hope is a LampshadeHanging, as Sonic and Tails gently mock the monkeys of Emerald Hill for using "totally out of date" [[BritishAccents Cockney accents]].
** There are four of these UK Sonic novels, and the later ones are composed entirely out of LampshadeHanging, {{Genre Savv|y}}iness, NoFourthWall, anachronistic slang, and pop culture references. In places, they practically deconstruct TotallyRadical.
---> '''From Book 3''': "A big ten-four to that, good buddy," said Tails. "We've gotta get hip and dig his crazy scene, find his pad, cash his chips and everything will be copacetic. It'll be very."

* As you would expect from an early 90's book starring the worlds most hip hedgehog ''Literature/SonicTheHedgehogInRobotniksLaboratory'' features this heavily, and when it runs out of totally rad slang it makes up it's own.

* In HarryTurtledove's ''{{Timeline 191}}'' series, the majority of which is set between 1914 and 1945, we get an early 20th century version that could be considered a subtle parody: numerous characters comment on the word "swell" replacing "bully," and their difficulty adjusting.

* ''DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' made fun of this with Greg getting a book for Christmas titled [[TwoDecadesBehind "Math is Rad," with a picture on the front of a person with spiked hair and sunglasses]].

* In ''TheDresdenFiles'' Harry briefly talks like this to the Red King, since his words are being translated into the language the Red Court uses (presumably an ancient Mayan dialect) and he decided to annoy that translator by choosing words that would be difficult to give any kind of reasonable definition for in ''English'' let alone in a language dead for hundreds of years.

* Turned UpToEleven in a series of childrens' novels based on the UK SonicTheHedgehog comics, where even the ''narration'' is done this way. "Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory" also included what one can only hope is a LampshadeHanging, as Sonic and Tails gently mock the monkeys of Emerald Hill for using "totally out of date" [[BritishAccents Cockney accents]].

* Elinor M Brent-Dyer's ''Literature/ChaletSchool'' books from the '20s-'30s had American Chalet Girls using all kinds of weird and wonderful slang, such as 'rubber-necked four-flusher', 'glumph' and 'splay-footed'.

* Diesel, a loner from ''Literature/WarriorCats'', seems to be the only cat in the entire series to ever speak like this. Heck, he even keeps calling Graystripe "bro"!

* All of [[JamesPatterson James Patterson's]] young adult novels [[MaximumRide suffer]] [[WitchAndWizard from]] [[TheDangerousDaysOfDanielX this]].

* In ''FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'', Raoul Duke picks up some of the literature available at the anti-drug conference and flips through it. He notes that none of what is described as "drug culture slang" is incorrect, specifically noting the use of the word "tea shades" for sunglasses.

* AS you would expect from an early 90's book starring the worlds most hip hedgehog ''Literature/SonicTheHedgehogInRobotniksLaboratory'' features this heavily, and when it runs out of totally rad slang it makes up it's own.

* In HarryTurtledove's ''Timeline 191'' series, the majority of which is set between 1914 and 1945, we get an early 20th century version that could be considered a subtle parody: numerous characters comment on the word "swell" replacing "bully," and their difficulty adjusting.