Forum / This is, like, *literally* the best article I've ever read
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Sally HoutmanAug 27, 11:45pm -
Rachna K.Aug 28, 12:01amGreat read, Par. I am going to "literally" avoid using the L word.
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Sally HoutmanAug 28, 12:18am
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Letitia CoyneAug 28, 06:10amOh, I love CM Punk.
Literally is just a fad word, I think; it's meaning is irrelevant. Like rage in the 80s, or grouse, or hip, or bogus, or any other slang word used without regard to its actual meaning.
I love the created words and phrases: Elephantitus, Old Timer's disease, foul swoops, escape goats, intensive purposes.
A news reader once told me Patagonia was a land of climactic extremes; she made me want to go there. It would be my penultimate holiday destination. :) It's allot better then it use to be, supposably.
Irregardless is now in the dictionary. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/irregardless
If you want to see the evolution of language in action, read at Wattpad where young writers are writing for a predominantly young adult readership. Malapropisms abound.
Language. Whaddya gonna do?
Lxx
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Sally HoutmanAug 28, 06:39am
It's cool when people start conversating in the Forum, innit?
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Letitia CoyneAug 28, 07:17am
Innit.
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Sally HoutmanAug 28, 07:44am
I had an argument with a co-worker years ago over the whole 'escape goat' thing. It got ugly.
Here's another that drives me mental - 'uncomfortableness'
It's DISCOMFORT!!!!
I'm researching flights to Patagonia as we speak.
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Letitia CoyneAug 28, 07:59am
Agreeance!
How can we be in agreeance?
Was agreement not suggestive enough of agreeability?
Lxx
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Rachna K.Aug 28, 01:48pm
Ooh I love this discussion. My son comes up with new, annoying words everyday. He mixes Hindi with English and ruins both.
I had a coworker who used to say "apparently" at the beginning of every sentence.
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Charlotte HamrickAug 28, 03:03pmHow about those who begin each sentence with "So". It makes me feel like I missed a portion of the story.
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Rachna K.Aug 28, 03:16pm
Yes, I have come across the ones with "So" and some of them even pause after that, while I shamelessly stare at them as if saying, give me anything, just anything, so that I know where you are going with this..or rather, where have you been....
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Sally HoutmanAug 28, 08:55pm
This is, like, literally the best Forum thread ever.
And if it got Rachna to participate, then...
I am so happy,
I am literally beside myself.
:)
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Charlotte HamrickAug 28, 09:22pm
(Notice no kind words for Big Mouth.) ;)
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Rachna K.Aug 28, 10:22pm
Par, aww that is so sweet!! Your smile and Charlotte's wink literally makes my day!!
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Letitia CoyneAug 28, 10:27pm
Ha! Charlotte - I was just tagged in your fb post that began: So, I want some luck. :))
I am guilty of using 'so' deliberately, too. I like it.
I heartily approve the practice of blending languages, too. English is such a mongrel to begin with. Every wave through GB introduced a few new words.
Anything done to language with intent is good. Changes made through ignorance are bad. Two legs, four legs, you know the way it goes.
Lxx
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Rachna K.Aug 28, 10:33pm
Oh I like "so" too. I use it way too much in my writing. It's only the "so" which does not come with prior events. Then I am a deer with headlights.
And for the record, the way Letitia flourishingly signs, also makes my day :) -
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