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October 14, 2005
Pop speech is 'Air guitar for the lips' — so bogus
A rather nice turn of phrase by Leslie Savan, author of "Slam Dunks and No–Brainers," a new book about the rise of argot.
William Grimes wrote a most entertaining review which appeared in Wednesday's New York Times.
Choice examples of pop speech:
• don't go there
• get over it
• whoa!
• duh
• I don't think so
• that is so last year
• too much information
• whatever
• you da man
• bring it on
• glitterati
• fashionista
• I hate it when that happens
• in your dreams
• put a cork in it
• tell me about it
• you've got that right
• don't even think about it
• bling
• it's all good
• yesss!
Grimes produced a gem in the second last paragraph of his review, to wit: "We all need some stupid time in our day."
Agreed.
But when that describes every waking moment I think some rethinking is in order.
Believe me, I'm doing just that.
October 14, 2005 at 10:01 AM | Permalink
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She also says people use pop speech as less than 10% of their language. I see it almost as punctuation, or abbreviation--you get your point across very quickly.
I know I use it sometimes around people I don't know very well. Maybe it's modern small talk--meaningless, but indicating a willingness to communicate.
Posted by: cc | Oct 14, 2005 11:03:19 AM
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