Feb 21, 2004 19:03
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Okay, I'm ready to type now. Well, at least, sort of ready. Hang on a second and let me un-don this horribly evil flannel shirt I have on. OKay, shirt un-donned.
I'm pretty sure un-donned isn't a word, but isn't it great that we, as speakers of such a versatile language, english, have the ability to manipulate and distort words and suffixes and prefixes all we want and have it still come out in sort of a quasi-decipherable (<-- I just did it) type of way? I am so fascinated by the way that different people in the world of engrish speak. I mean, hell, in brooklyn/coney island, it's not uncommon for people to fuck the sentence variety all up, like "why did you take again the TV?". Which is so fucking cool. and awesome. Fucking cawesome.
And I'm so happy that I can be a part of this language. This is such an asset that so few know they have. Did you know that it is possible to make a living in a foreign country for a FUCKING YEAR on only 2000 dollars and prostituting yourself because you know english? Isn't that sweet that knowing english is something that people fucking PAY for? and we have no idea how intensely awesome and lucky we are. English is the language of money, man, and money talks. English, specifically, money talks english.
Which sounds incorrect, doesn't it? I don't really know exactly, and I don't know when to put commas, either. I think I get 'em pretty good.
Oh! and I love the use of an apostrophe as a way to fuckin' illustrate missing letters. I mean, seriously, who the hell gives a flyin' fuck where those fuckin' G's go. (Oh, and apostrophe makes possesives and combines fucking subjects and their verbs, man. subjects and their verbs.)
And mutation of language as illustrated by/through (which one is correct - by or through?) slang. I mean, what happened so that words like "cheesy", "corny", and "freaky", which are all slang, by the way, grew to develop?
and Blankety-blanks, which I just forgot what they are called. "never look a gift horse in the mouth", "a bird in the hand beats two in the bush". I love watching the mutation and evolution of this language.
I love it, yo.