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I'm rocking out on the way to work, rolling in my 4-door Toyota Echo with 15" rims, blasting Deftones, Klaxons, Kings of Leon, etc... That's my feeble way to pretend I'm still young. I know better, as does most everyone else, but I still pretend. I do manage to fool some people some of the time.
I don't adapt much slang - I'm still stuck on "cool", "dude", "groovy" (Trying to be more like Pronsias Cassidy than a hippy...) I have a low tolerance for slang which is adopted by the middle upper class: words like "Bling" and "Sick". I remember hearing the word "bling" for the first time in this context by Pat O'Brien from "The Insider" while he was critiquing stars on the red carpet: he sounded so phoney, the word so alien in his mouth, yet he used it with such enthusiasm as if the use of this word would secure his place forever in the halls of Hip.
God it was pathetic. I decided that moment to try avoid anything that would make me look like such an utter pratt. Not that I don't manage to, now and again, but the effort's there.
I have been able to totally resist using the word "like" except to either express my fondness or to make a direct comparisson. I experienced a slight bit of TV rage yesterday when I saw a Car Insurrance commercial on TV that caved into this trend, "...And with our comprehensive coverage, you could save, like, $500 a year compared to other companies..."
I make every effort to avoid current slang feeling that a.)I'll look like an idiot and b.)I think that much current slang is a glorification of lazy, uneducated speech and is exclusionist in it's complexity and c.)Because sometimes it just annoys me and I'm on my way to becoming a crusty old curmudgeon.
BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I ROLL MOFO! |
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