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Teenage girls so, like, rule English
The Australian ^
| January 09, 2006
| John Harlow and Dan Box
Posted on 01/08/2006 10:30:02 PM PST by Dundee
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"The big problem in Australia is getting young men to talk at all. Girls are much more orally adventurous."
Now I know why we keep seeing Clinton over here.
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posted on
01/08/2006 10:30:04 PM PST
by
Dundee
To: Dundee
"Barry Spurr, senior lecturer in English at the University of Sydney, said social pressures meant Australian men in particular were more reluctant to display their language abilities. "They are afraid to be seen expressing thought because they are sexually insecure," Dr Spurr said. "They want to be seen to be real men and the standard for real men wouldn't be seen to express a thought."
What a bunch of - like oh my gawd - CRAP!
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posted on
01/08/2006 10:36:34 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(None dare call it ISLAMOFACISM!)
To: Dundee
Why are we subjected to opinions by people obviously educated
FAR beyond their native intelligence?
Nam Vet
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posted on
01/08/2006 10:40:53 PM PST
by
Nam Vet
(The Democrat Party of America is perfectly P.C. * .(* P.C. = Patriotically Challenged)
To: Nam Vet
Why are we subjected to opinions by people obviously educated FAR beyond their native intelligence? My theory is that it they ever shut up their heads would explode in a shower of BS.
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posted on
01/08/2006 10:45:09 PM PST
by
Dundee
(They gave up all their tomorrows for our today’s.)
To: Dundee; Nam Vet
"Why are we subjected to opinions by people obviously educated FAR beyond their native intelligence?
My theory is that it they ever shut up their heads would explode in a shower of BS."
"F*ckin' A man..f*ckin' A.."
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posted on
01/08/2006 10:56:30 PM PST
by
Khurkris
("Hell, I was there"...Elmer Keith.)
To: Dundee
It's not just vernacular but the speed young girls talk.
My family was at a new fusion restaurant last week and the waitress was incomprehensible. My brother in law had to make her repeat herself three times to make his order.
Plus she didn't have a clue about anything on the menu other than what she had memorized.
My stuffed chicken breast turned out to be an over cooked breaded chicken schnitzel.
I would have never guessed that from the menu and her pathetic attempt to describe it.
Stuffed with butter and garlic?
Sorry dear that's a marinade and you don't take a marinade cut, bread it and BBQ it under a couple of hot clay bricks until it is harder than the plate you're eating on.
The fashion sense of 17 year old girls today is going to be the death of us all. But like, fa shaw, who am I to judge. Bag my face and gag me with a spoon!!!
To: Dundee; mikrofon; martin_fierro
Teenage girls so, like, rule English Whatever.
To: Khurkris; Dundee; Nam Vet
Ya know, you just can't make this s**i up. It'd be hillarious, if it wasn't (sadly) true.
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posted on
01/08/2006 11:00:53 PM PST
by
farlander
To: Dundee
"muffin top" (a bulge of flesh over low-cut jeans) and "whale tail" (the appearance of a g-string above the waistband of a skirt or trousers).
And that this new lingo refers to dressing like streetwalkers is also comforting.
To: Dundee
"They are afraid to be seen expressing thought because they are sexually insecure," Dr Spurr said. "They want to be seen to be real men and the standard for real men wouldn't be seen to express a thought."
Sounds like a feminist "real man" to me.
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posted on
01/08/2006 11:06:54 PM PST
by
Sofa King
(A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
To: Charles Henrickson; Dundee; mikrofon
Teenage girls so, like, rule English Dude, I'm all, 'that's hella heinous.'"
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posted on
01/08/2006 11:07:04 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Ferrrrr Shurrrrr)
To: farlander
Yep...and Welcome Aboard Farlander.
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posted on
01/08/2006 11:10:28 PM PST
by
Khurkris
("Hell, I was there"...Elmer Keith.)
To: Khurkris
"Hey Peter, man, check out channel 9, it's the breast exams."
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posted on
01/08/2006 11:23:06 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
To: Dundee
I still use ye, but I'm slow.
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posted on
01/08/2006 11:23:09 PM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: Dundee
I'm reading the story, and I'm like, "Yeah". Uh-huh.
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posted on
01/08/2006 11:28:25 PM PST
by
Rocky
(Air America: Robbing the poor to feed the Left)
To: Dundee
"They would recruit words that appear in American hip hop music. That was one way they would build their own identity," she said.
Ummmmmm....
Ok.
To me, it sounds like "they" are borrowing someone else's identity, not building their own. If "they" were building their OWN identity, they would use words from their own culture (or make up new words!!).
In addition, what is all this crap about young men never speaking because they are sexually insecure?? How did the writer make THAT connection?? That is quite a leap. This sounds like a page right out of the feminist and gay agenda play book. It is how they imagine men to be (or want them to be), and it is how Hollywood portrays men, but other than that, the concept has no basis in reality. When I was in high school, guys spoke to each other constantly, laughing and joking. Most didn't seem to be insecure, at least not in any major way. Very bizarre article. One has to be really dedicated to pushing "the agenda" to put out a piece like this.
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posted on
01/08/2006 11:51:50 PM PST
by
Zetman
(This secret to simple and inexpensive cold fusion intentionally left blank.)
To: Dundee
"They are afraid to be seen expressing thought because they are sexually insecure,"That is one of the strangest quotes I have seen around here in a long time. "Cats run from dogs because they like to drink milk" makes about as much sense.
To: Dundee
Simple math would demonstrate the truth of this, since 16 year old girls talk without pause from the moment they wake up until the moment they fall asleep (with the phone still at their ear) it only makes sense that they would lead the world in language innovation. This article discusses the English language only, but I'm sure it would prove true of all language, with the possible exception of Arabic, since those women are all so repressed.
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posted on
01/09/2006 1:47:00 AM PST
by
jocon307
(Still mourning the loss of CBS FM)
To: Dundee
Girls are much more orally adventurous." God bless 'em!
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posted on
01/09/2006 1:54:31 AM PST
by
vikzilla
To: Dundee
This style of speech is characterised by inserting drawled words such as "like" and "so" to add emphasis to a sentence, which rises in pitch at the end. The fact they they honestly can't/won't hear how stupid it makes them sound only compounds the problem. They, like, wanna be, all, like taken seriously? in the real world. And, like, when they, you know, aren't taken seriously and all that they take up the banner of feminism because they are too foolish to see that it is their own behavior that is holding them back - not men, not the world, not the oppressive patriarchical corporate system, not George Bush.
For great fun, try parroting the "like, you knows, I was all, you knows" back at them. You can even embellish it with some eye-rolling and sneering. When they react, explain that it sounds awful when an adult talks like that, and that if they ever want to be taken seriously as a young adult they should STOP IT!
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