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Dawg was definitely overused. Not as much as "bro" though. uhggg!!!
I was in line at a store with my daughter, and she asked "why did that guy just call his daughter "bro"? He was in front of us.
All I could say was that he probably was just released out of jail...
Here, I fixed it for you :)Quote:
Originally Posted by HaiKarate
This had me laughing... I don't know why.... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Haroldg48
I call a lot of people bro...Quote:
Originally Posted by HaiKarate
Not my wife or women as a whole but just about everyone else... :shrug:
I think it is the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu influence...
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Originally Posted by edhewitt
We made them ready to eat by boiling and then baking then :) turned out great.
The Hazzard County for the show was in Georgia. I assume that some of the improper English was the writer's attempts at the southern dialect. I don't recall Bo or Luke or Uncle Jesse speaking poorly. Cooter, and Enis, and Roscoe, and Boss Hogg were caricatures and spoke as such.Quote:
Originally Posted by rolodave
Welcome Back Kotter's Sweathogs didn't speak good.
Neither did Lennie or Squiggy.
Neither did Festus.
Neither did Ralph Kramden or Ed Norton.
My phone needs charged. I'm gonna get me a shower.
I done told you once already!
Ugh!
Disclaimer: I do not write our speak prefect English at all.. but I speak well enough, in an articulate way, and with traditional etiquette to make a difference in my life. Many of the opportunities that I've enjoyed have resulted from this.
I have a five year old boy. It is an uphill battle teaching him proper (mostly) English and good manners. My wife and I come from different areas of this country. I'm from California and she is from Indiana. Whenever I am in Indiana the linguistic deficit is noticeable, as well as polite manners. The language is more noticeable. The manners have more to do with little things such as chewing with one's mouth open; I see this less often in California.
I maintain that manners and language are connected.
I'm working with my family to promote the embrace of intellect and positive traditions like etiquette. The culture my wife was razed in is one that is ignorant to the importance of keeping the positive and productive elements of past generations. They seem content to embrace ignorance as a modus operandi.
The tyranny of the masses is not a new idea. In ancient Rome the "mob" was uneducated, poor, and too busy squabbling for bread and distraction to understand what was really going on. Has anything changed except that now every member of the mob has a megaphone?
Change is a good thing as long as its good change. Today there is a growing, uneducated, poor, and apathetic populace and it is a sad situation. Poor language and the destruction of positive tradition is merely symptomatic of a sick culture.
If you don't think there is such thing as poor language then just go and try to communicate more than a MacDonalds order..
Idiocracy is a great movie but one thing to realize is that stupid people don't so much as "breed" stupid people... they raise them. Please note that this does not include those apples that hit the ground rolling to find their way to fertile ground.
I like pointing out that a foul mouth is a sign of a weak mind, or at least a poor vocabulary--d&mm^t!
I have found it interesting that the longer the time since retirement that I am away from the factory working environment the more civilized my language has become. Now if I cuss, it has a direct connection to the item that deserved it rather than a generalized place keeper.
~Richard
Reading, and the love of reading, is the greatest gift we can give ourselves and our children.
Much of the rest, proper English, manners, constructive and critical thought can be opened up like a great, timeless world, different places, times, customs, planets, civilizations, all can be discovered inside a book.