I'm heading out of town for a few days, but if you need some entertainment in the meantime you can check out this epic rant.
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John, I'm sending that brilliant link to my kids - I think it might bring us closer together, in a non-epic kinda way. Enjoy your time off.
Posted by: Harpfool | Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 03:11 PM
FTW!
Posted by: Dah_sab | Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 06:54 PM
The way slang is now more distributed in origin, and the rapidity with which it now propagates, is fascinating. No more slow percolation from SoCal or NY into the heartland.
The same turn of phrase pops up from disparate friends, webcomics, blogs, within a week or two.
Though marketers pick it up much faster as well, the rule for the discerning wordsmith remains that once The Man has it, you either modify it in your own use or drop it entirely, barring of course a number of ironic contexts.
That said, Maddox is terrible. And pretty broad-side-of-the-barn with that one -- People abuse the English language on twitter and facebook? I'm appalled!
Posted by: Cloud | Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 09:09 PM
People abuse the English language on twitter and facebook?
Unfair--they use this word everywhere, not just online. Why, just last week some kids were using it on my lawn. You can imagine what I told them.
Posted by: John Caruso | Saturday, March 05, 2011 at 01:11 PM