Another hot one, dude.

What a scorcher here today. My brain is a little fried and the air really does have the feel of Do The Right Thing about it. 

Something that came to mind while chatting with a regular contributor is the parlance of the day. It’s the “Valley Girl” thing, Hilton Slang, speaking with the voice of every gay character in Sex and the City. It’s brash, unattractive, intensely repetitive (repeating “like” every sentence, sometimes several times in the same sentence) and annoying – particularly when performed with a question mark after, like? every? like? word? and stuff?.

Similarly there is a growing male voice with a limited vocabulary… speaking in SMS Message lingo and referring to each other as “man” “dude” and “bro”. It’s not just an American thing either. Our British cousins, particularly in shitty neighbourhoods around London… are suffering from an untold abuse of the English language. “Chavs” as they are known, are currently fuelling concern among scientists that in fact the missing link was there all along, hidden between a Ford Escort (with mods, of course) and the number 32 bus in darkest Essex.

One wonders what Frasier would make of all this. The sillification and annihilation of the English language would surely turn his golden locks blue, but then his surname is Grammer, dude.

~ by 10pplay on July 5, 2007.