"Hey Brent." "Hey Kira."
Not Hello, not Hi... Hey.
Even the CNN talking heads, establishment personified, now use Hey as their preferred salutation du jour. This kinda weirds me out. I can't say Hey anymore without feeling sheepish.
I never really incorporated kick-ass into my own stilted vocabulary. Now that it too is ubiquitous, I don't miss not using it. But I wonder if the kewl kidz are going crazy trying to come up with fresh colloquialisms. The half-life of new slang is infintesimal - anything remotely new and edgy seems to be immediately adopted as a mainstream idiom.
Blame the internets?
I have gone back to using Uh-huh instead of Right On. Pity that.
Yes, I know - this entry makes me sound old. Perhaps The Youth don't mind mass acceptance. I've been told that whole counter-culture, be an individual, do your own thing, question authority bit is so twentieth century. I will just sit back and watch the wheels go 'round - that's the ticket.
Not Hello, not Hi... Hey.
Even the CNN talking heads, establishment personified, now use Hey as their preferred salutation du jour. This kinda weirds me out. I can't say Hey anymore without feeling sheepish.
I never really incorporated kick-ass into my own stilted vocabulary. Now that it too is ubiquitous, I don't miss not using it. But I wonder if the kewl kidz are going crazy trying to come up with fresh colloquialisms. The half-life of new slang is infintesimal - anything remotely new and edgy seems to be immediately adopted as a mainstream idiom.
Blame the internets?
I have gone back to using Uh-huh instead of Right On. Pity that.
Yes, I know - this entry makes me sound old. Perhaps The Youth don't mind mass acceptance. I've been told that whole counter-culture, be an individual, do your own thing, question authority bit is so twentieth century. I will just sit back and watch the wheels go 'round - that's the ticket.
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Oh dear. I do say "Hey" instead of "Hi" or "Hello." I should probably be doing that more in the workplace and with my elders at least. ;)
But you're still a kid, so it's ok. ;-)
See my recent posting re: "sucks". Join the Spock revolution! "Indeed" is the new "absolutely"!
I need a nap.
Now that "brilliant" has crossed the pond, there is no future...indeed.
"What's crunchin', codpiece?"
So sayeth King of the Neoelizabethians. Rule with fairness & compassion.
I dig it.
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