Who is responsible for the greatest change to our language? Teenage girls
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It makes sense that the majority of linguistic innovations comes from the most capable practitioners.
(In my headcanon "super" had come into common use ca.2000, but now I see it was already extant at least two decades earlier: "It's like so bitching 'cause like everybody's like super-super nice")
I contest this point. Dumping /dev/random to stdout does not imply more meaningful communication. I know many people who are fond of saying a lot of words whilst saying nothing at all.
On god fr fr no cap.
It's a shame it didn't get renewed.
>>> Regina: "Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen!"
So now we know there is some linguistic context to that conversation.
I was in Paris and somebody was complaining that that the kids were saying "en vrai" all the time. I explained to her that it's "for real" which is one of my favorite 200x era hip hop phrases.
Most slang goes way back. "Cool" is 1930s black jazz culture, and now every white grandma say it without it even sounding odd.
Right, it's 4 years old:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stop%20the%2...
I don't care, I'm based
Imagine saying that, but in reverse.
What is wrong with that? You seem to be trying to make some sort of American culture war argument out of something completely uncontroversial.
And that hasn't changed, that is still exactly the case. When it's not 4chan lingo (which mostly stays in text/image form), it's AAVE. Not sure why it's always "Gen Z" or teenage girls getting credit for this.
Just look at their list of phrases that are "in":
Phrases that are "in"
>Bet — 'I'm down'. For example, if someone asks you to go out for dinner, you say 'bet' >You devoured/ate — said in response to someone succeeding with style >Full send — not caring, just going for it >Slaps — If something slaps, it's really good (normally in a food context) >Ceebs — a variation of CBF [can't be f*ked] >Ick — a sudden feeling of grossness, often about a person's behaviour or mannerisms
out of these, only "Ceebs" (sounds like the a twist on "can't be arsed") and "Ick" aren't AAVE.
And the list of phrases that are "out":
>No cap — the truth >Lit — something is great, but now considered very "2017-2018" >Fam — used in reference to friends >Slay — used when someone performs well, but considered dated and you'd only use the term ironically
These are all AAVE.
With linguistic change driven mostly by females, I wonder what this indicates about societies that are or were linguistically conservative, also whether there was a difference between literate and pre-literate societies.
I’m not sure how you’d quantify generic “meme rate of change” though, across such disparate mediums.
Really I don't see how. I would like an example, i have learned sales techniques and to me even sales techniques, who are multiple order of magnitude more manipulative imho, aren't really coercive . Also, sales techniques works way better on persons not aware of them, non-violent communication mostly work if both persons use it (that makes it way less actionable than it's proponents affirm), which is to me the opposite of exploitative.
And the valley girl voice was his daughter, Moon Unit.
Here they were on Letterman:
Time to update, ser
No, I don’t think I will
In any case, barf me out. No way. Gag me with a spoon.
> (…) position yourself as close as possible to a group of young women and then shut your eyes and listen.
Like a cartoon character faking being asleep. Yes, I’m sure those teenagers won’t find that creepy or weird at all and will continue speaking as if you weren’t there.
Though in fairness, they’re quoting a woman. Maybe the interviewer was also a woman and they were really speaking one-to-one, not thinking that specific section would be quoted.