alt Hacker NewsAs a native English speaker, keen feels like a very 1950s TV word. Don't know if that's actually true but feels like that way. I expect you're more likely to hear like cool today are some more contemporary word.
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OJFord • yesterday at 5:22 PM
I'm also a native English speaker, sounds perfectly normal & commonplace to me.
bethekidyouwant • yesterday at 4:54 PM
“It offers fewer words for the people directly around you, but more for belonging at a distance” - the further I get into this article the more it just seems like sampling bias as a narrative.
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ndsipa_pomu • yesterday at 7:43 PM
Still in common use in Britain as far as I know. A more local (Bristolian) word would be "keener" used to describe someone who puts lots of effort into a task to win praise.
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Brits still use the word somewhat frequently, though I haven’t bumped into many of them in the last ten years.