Over the years there have been more than few of this type whom saw me coming a mile a way, velvet knickers, Bettie Page lunchboxes, berets and all, and thought, "Good Lord, keep her out of my class!" One refused to grade anymore papers because "she couldn't read my writing" and though she'd never have admitted it told me I was too big of a dork to deal with. Whatever. She's probably dead by now. All that said (truly as short and pithy as I could do), I thought to myself I would write a simple blog this time, a list even, as it were. Naturally, it is apropos to language.
Yes, I understand language very well. I comprehend how it evolves and changes and that usage plays a big role in the ebb and flow of words and phrases. Like an exclusive nightclub in West Hollywood, one out means one in: arsy-versy is long-gone (although I'm doing my best to bring it back), but, Jebus, Bling-bling is a viable, dictionary entry.
Under the watchful gazes of lexicographers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Noah Webster to today's Merriam-Webster staffers, language has shifted and turned, lexicons ushered in and out like beauties on the velvet rope line escorted inside and rowdies tossed out on their asses from that very exclusive club. This is language and we move forward.
Ipso facto ... if I hear any of the following colloquialisms one more time ...
-Wall Street to Main Street ... although, an excellent drinking game during political seasons
-Bucket List ... just annoying on so many levels
-Facebook status, Facebooking, Facebook Friend, "Are you on Facebook?" or any derivation thereof
-Ditto for all terms deriving from Twitter
-Ditto for blog, blogging, blogger, etc. ... yes, I get the irony.
-blogosphere ... Good Lord, just stop it already!
-Hellz yeah!
-Hellicool ... or Helli-anything, unless you are Eric Cartman
-irregardless
-a whole nother
-viral, gone viral, going viral, viral marketing ... et cetera, et cetera
-Baby Daddy and/or Baby Mama
-freakin'
-Really?
-OMG, LOL and/or WTF ... written as well as spoken, yet especially spoken
-the optics of it (a political analysis-phrase meaning simply, "how it looks to people")
-the real America
-No Spin Zone
-whatev ... not difficult to say the whole word, just one more syllable and you're there
-late (Ditto)
Anything to add, my pretties? Like Dr. Frasier Crane, I'm listening.
