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Thread #56025 Message #949428
Posted By: Cluin
09-May-03 - 12:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: The language of the US changing???
Subject: RE: BS: The language of the US changing???
Time to trot out those Esperanto texts again, I guess.
What impresses me most about the way the language is changing, is that there is more of it, while less and less worthwhile is being actually said.... a lot of "like" ans "y'know?" and "nomesain" and yes, the Canadian "eh" (and it's northern relative "uh"). People talking to hear their own voices, while they really don't have much to say.
Always reminds me of an old Alexei Sayle bit, where he prefaced it by stating that there are more and more chat shows and daytime forum programs inundating us all the time, "like more talk is a good thing". He then does a song in which he proceeds to tell everybody to "shut up". "Margaret Thatcher, shut up!" "Clive Anderson, shut up!" "Sting, shut up!" "Charlton Heston, Martin Sheen, Madonna, Shut the hell up!"... and so on, finally ending with "Alexei Sayle, SHUT UP!" And the music stops and he walks off stage in silence.