Thread: Another Language Virus

Originally Posted by rhensley

I hope I'm not over stepping my bounds but if your with your lady it would be wise to pay attention to her and not us.

Yes that's true, we just carved out Halloween pumpkins and she's telling me to get off my phone and help her make the pumpkin seeds. Well I best be going!

Languages are always evolving but currently at a faster pace than we have seen before. What was once gross negligence is now common place and generally accepted as the norm. Just another thing that makes getting older hard to take. The older you get the less kindly you look at any change, good or bad.

Bob

I have maintained US English started its downward spiral in the early 80s with the television show "The Dukes of Hazard".

The show was banned in our house.

I don't recall any particular problem with that show, considering that it was supposed to be taking place in Georgia.

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

Yes that's true, we just carved out Halloween pumpkins and she's telling me to get off my phone and help her make the pumpkin seeds. Well I best be going!

What are you going to make the pumpkin seeds do? Or are you fabricating them yourself?

A lot of it is talking as if texting.
And as S0LITARYS0LDIER says.. "15 words and 5 of them are curse words which are used pretty much after every word he says."
I must add, the OVER USE of the slang term "BRO".
A few years ago I was in jail for a week and i swear..all I heard was the word "bro", and, "you know what I'm saying" after everything anyone said. It was really grating on my nerves bad!
Bro.... I can not take that word anymore that is for sure.

or, asked another way, what is "making pumpkin seeds"? From whence do they come? I think this discussion of "seeds" might be over the line of the forum decorum rules.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

What are you going to make the pumpkin seeds do? Or are you fabricating them yourself?

Originally Posted by Utopian

I don't recall any particular problem with that show, considering that it was supposed to be taking place in Georgia.

It was the first show that purposely used improper English. AFAIK, shows used proper English before this series.

Hazard is in eastern Kentucky.

Originally Posted by HaiKarate

A few years ago I was in jail for a week and i swear..all I heard was the word "bro", and, "you know what I'm saying" after everything anyone said. It was really grating on my nerves bad!
Bro.... I can not take that word anymore that is for sure.

Or ......... remember when it was 'dude' ........ hey dude ,,,,,, or DUDE ! ...... I suppose it is preferable than, "Whut up dawg ?"

People are very like monkeys who see and then do likewise. I used to be terribly annoyed when every politician on the planet started saying, "At the end of the day,"...... "let me unpack that "............ now it is ....... "my takeaway on that is"

These things catch on and before you know it they are like mushrooms on cow manure ........

Societal origin: public schools. Good and proper English seems rather foreign to many Americans, doesn't it? Maybe we need a rebirth of assimilation. One commentator says a country is destroyed without language, borders, culture. Funny, those thing have been under attack for the last 60+ years.