Why All the Cray-Cray Words?

[digitS']

I was just thinking how SeedO uses such clear English and I happened across this: (LInk)



Gives just a speck of historical context to go with the hysterical. Like, have you ever wondered where the word soccer comes from?

I gotta practice up on my way to describe tasty veggies! OMG, Nom! #awkward

Steve

 

[baymule]

I don't tweet........a relic from the dark ages........

 

[Smart Red]

Don't be teasing my SeedO! Not only is he wonderful, generous, thoughtful, considerate, etc., but he actually does use the Language appropriately here on TEG. Even that is much appreciated by this aged teacher.

I firmly believe that the purposeful misuse of the English Language began as a premeditated revolt against Language teachers by those (now) wealthy Nerds who invented/expanded computers, the internet, and cyber space because they once were forced to conjugate verbs and diagram sentences in high school. Just my opinion.

 

[NwMtGardener]

Hah! I didnt expect to find that article as interesting as it was! Nor did I expect to see Steve typing "cray-cray"

 

[digitS']

I still have a youngest child who is a "young adult" by any definition. Oldest child is - middle age by any definition . Of course, we know what that makes me :/. With no grandchildren (or g grandchildren) I have to do my best to pay some attention to the teenagers!

I'm not one to decry anything that promotes/allows communication. Of course, it shouldn't be willy-nilly . . . ummm, well "random" may be passing from the vernacular . . . Yeah, jumpin' jehoshaphat, don't go all willy-nilly!

I even saw a poster that someone says was in a middle school about thinking before you "facebook" . . . . thinking is always preferred to the alternative, anyway.

Language evolves and it evolved at a fairly steady rate before literacy became so universal -- good/bad or otherwise. I would like to think that younger generations will continue to be able to read their language written centuries in the past. I find it wonderful to read something handwritten from 150 years ago - but, let's realize that not everyone was able to read it, then. The "bare-foot schoolboy laws" didn't become common until about 100 years ago. The Industrial Revolution brought illiterate workers into cities and the language must have exploded with new words, spellings & uses!!

We are seeing that again -- on our monitors and smart phones, if not in our own homes! Language is an important part of human culture. Useful. Artistic, at times. Rigid? Better not be unless we want an important part of culture to lose its usefulness to society and young people, especially.

Steve

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

The only two text-talk words that I know would be "lol" and "OMG." (I think that "OMG" has been around longer than the rest of those "words." ) I have trouble communicating with my fellow online students because I have no idea what in the world they're saying, and they type really fast!

I stay away from social networking sites, I personally think that they're over-rated and don't want any information about myself flying around the internet. At least on these forums my personal information doesn't show up when I google my own name. I have actually tried that; typed my name in the little search box, came up with an obituary for some lady down in Louisiana. That could just explain why one of my classmates thought that I was a girl!

A lot of the words are OK as long as they stay on the internet. What drives me off the edge is when they start using them in real life. Although, some just make me want to slap the speaker over the head with a dictionary whether they're online or not.

 

[journey11]

I had to Google "cray-cray". I'm afraid about 20 of my brain cells committed suicide after reading the definition.

 

[digitS']

Crazy, baby!

digitS'

 

[Carol Dee]

SeedO maybe you where born in the wrong century! You certainly are mature beyond your years. ( I say that as a good thing.) And Baymule, you are not alone. No facebook, no tweets and only have a cell phone in my purse for emergencies. Oh-well I kind of like it here in the dark ages.

 

[buckabucka]

Wow, maybe I won't look like such a freak to this group! No Facebook, no tweets, no cell phone or text message, no TV. But I do spend quite a bit of time on this IPad....