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runner
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 RE: And I'm Like (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
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Miguel, sad to say, but that is now how an enormous number of young women speak today, including my granddaughter, y' know. And, y' know, a lot of young men, credentialed young men, interviewed on TV programs of varying degrees of seriousness, y' know, repeatedly interlard their, y' know, responses, y' know, with y' know.
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Date Aug. 31 2015 17:53:49
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BarkellWH
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RE: And I'm Like (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
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It started about 30 years ago and originally was termed "Valley Girl" talk, as Kiko points out. Runner mentions the ubiquitous "Y' know," which is one more piece of evidence of the decline of articulate speech. In fact, for some time there has been a decline in both spoken and written English. It's scary to think about how written English will look two generations from now, after "texting" has become the primary mode of communication.
Oh well, C U soon.
Bill
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Date Aug. 31 2015 21:43:42
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BarkellWH
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RE: And I'm Like (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
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Miguel, what do you think? Are we reaching a point where we will be mute, having lost the capacity to engage in articulate speech? Will we eventually converse via flash cards? No speech, just flash cards with the appropriate picture that conveys, at least roughly, the idea we want to get across? And our interlocutors reply with flash cards that bear some resemblance to a response? (Using flash cards couldn't be any more inarticulate than much of the speech one hears today.) Yet again, further evidence that after the long evolutionary journey to walking upright comes the descent to knuckle-dragging once again.
Bill
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And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
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Date Sep. 1 2015 21:46:55
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BarkellWH
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RE: And I'm Like (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
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It's okay, Bill, things just march on. Probably within a generation or two, people will be hardwired to machines that will spare them the need to even use their vocal chords--they will just communicate by wifi.
You've called me out as the Luddite that I am, Miguel. I'm talking about using flash cards to communicate, and you are talking about people being hardwired to machines and communicating by WiFi.
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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Date Sep. 2 2015 21:23:16
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