I asked her where she heard the word and she stated that "the other night on television news a man called someone a Mack Daddy".
Every fiber of my being calls out that this is phony, but hey, what do the fibers of my being know?
Well, you know the original meanings of rock ‘n roll, jazz, jukebox, etc.
American language is fluid — always changing.
“I do not want my eight and nine-year-old children learning about such things as “Mack Daddies” until they are old enough to understand that those of a lower socioeconomic standing in our society speak such language out of ignorance”
Why should they EVER have to understand it?? It’s not worthy of them. There is no redeeming or uplifting reason to have to learn, much less adopt, such terminology or ideology. This is beyond the “dumbing down” of our society and country, it’s the decaying of it.
Or those f#@$@ing sons of #@$#@ at Kos and DU.
(Oops, I think I just contributed to the problem.)
I believe what you say here, whether others do or not. The bastardization of the English languaage is depressing to me. And it makes me mad. Words mean things. We do not need to define new terms just because a certain class of people do not want to go along with the mainstream. If they dislike it so much here, then there are many more countries around the world to which they can move. The media once again force this stuff on us.
The adoption of getto slang has been going on for quite a while, but like everything else it seems, there is an ongoing coarsening of language (and behavior) at every level.
I’m not sure what can be done about it on a societal level, but as you are aware, you need to be a more positive influence in your daughter’s life than popular “culture” is a negative.
All cultures are equal! Kids must be taught not to judge.
If you try to teach your kids otherwise, you will be arrested for a hate crime.
It will go easier for you if you report to your reeducation camp immediately.
I also heard some political commentator use “Mack Daddy” the other day. I had no idea that’s what it meant.
Even your grandmother today will say “That really sucks.” This expression came from, in the 1970s, the insult “You* suck [rooster]!” (*Often used in the third person, referencing someone’s maternal parent.)