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Sometimes it pisses me off that someone like myself, who practically majored in English in high school and still reads quite often, uses such a small pool of words when speaking to people. My vocabulary in conversations basically consists of "dude," "yo", "right," "sucks," and "no shit." I suppose one could say that I can express myriads of emotions with very few words, but then I'm not at all distinguished from the masses of people my age or younger with IQs below 100. On the other hand, pretentiousness and pedagogy in conversation tends to be annoying as well.

Date: 2002-03-26 11:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candid.livejournal.com
No shit.

Date: 2002-03-26 11:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herbaliser.livejournal.com
Have you read PJ O'Rourke's Modern Manners? There's a lovely bit on teenspeak in it.

double plus good!

Date: 2002-03-26 11:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] interimlover.livejournal.com
the hell with modern english. we need newspeak:
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns_frames.html

Date: 2002-03-26 01:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hotcrab.livejournal.com
word, dog

Date: 2002-03-26 04:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moleque.livejournal.com
what does pedagogy mean?

Date: 2002-03-27 03:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buckylea.livejournal.com
i dunno but i used to have a subject called that when i did early childhood at uni.

Date: 2002-03-27 09:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herbaliser.livejournal.com
HA! good one.

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