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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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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. I'm SUUUreee. Like...he really knows. If he like really LISTened, he'd know that it's a rise and a drawn out drop at the EEeend. He's so like...OUT of iiiiiiiiit.
Know your dingbats.
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posted on
01/09/2006 4:53:15 AM PST
by
guitfiddlist
(When the 'Rats break out switchblades, it's no time to invoke Robert's Rules.)
To: Dundee
Hmmm...interesting. But I would have guessed that it was the African American hip hop community that contributes more new words and meanings to English than Valley girls. Word...
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posted on
01/09/2006 5:03:21 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: Dundee
Uhhhgg...
Female mouth move, not put food in.
Mean much trouble.
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posted on
01/09/2006 5:57:16 AM PST
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Mohammedism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
To: Names Ash Housewares
"And that this new lingo refers to dressing like streetwalkers is also comforting."
Since they are both insults which tend to keep "fashionable" girls from making those fashion mistakes, it is comforting. I find "muffin tops" especially disgusting.
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posted on
01/09/2006 6:46:32 AM PST
by
monday
To: Dundee
Girls are much more orally adventurous Should that really be, "verbally adventurous," rather than what the article chose? Poor choice of words.
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posted on
01/09/2006 7:07:13 AM PST
by
Lou L
To: beaver fever
Forgive my complete ignorance, but what is a "fusion" restaurant?
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:09:52 AM PST
by
Choose Ye This Day
(Win the war. Confirm the judges. Cut the taxes. Control the spending. Secure the border.)
To: Names Ash Housewares
Ya gotta admit that 'Muffin Top' is a brilliant descriptive phrase. I roflmao when I read it.
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:41:18 AM PST
by
wildbill
To: jocon307
The only thing I really don't get? Is how inflection has changed over the years? So every sentence? Sounds like a question? Even when it's not?
To: Lil'freeper
I was being conversed by one of these chicks once. She was saying things such as, "then I was like ..."
You know the sentence construction I'm referring to.
She finally ran out of breath after having said "Then he was like, it's OK with me."
So I asked her, "Well what were you like?"
She stared at me in stunned disbelief.
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:50:08 AM PST
by
HIDEK6
To: linda_22003
The question-end isn't a recent thing . . . it's been going on since I was in junior high, and I got out of junior high in 1983.
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:50:20 AM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
To: wildbill
Me too, lol...
I have to admit, I luv muffins though...
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:50:58 AM PST
by
RedWing9
(No tag here... Just want to stay vague...)
To: Xenalyte
I know it's not recent; I did say "over the years" but it's definitely AFTER my time (I'm 50). I grew up ending declarative sentences with a period, not a question mark. Y'know?
To: wildbill
Ya gotta admit that 'Muffin Top' is a brilliant descriptive phrase. It's certainly more concise than "Six pounds of $#!+ in a five pound sack", but it describes the same phenomenon.
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:54:46 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Names Ash Housewares
Those 2 terms made me laugh my head off!
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:54:47 AM PST
by
Muzzle_em
("Get busy LIVING or get busy dying")
To: Names Ash Housewares
For your viewing pleasure a "Muffin top"
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:56:01 AM PST
by
Morass of Negativity
(Why do the Kennedys always end up dead or wearing neck braces?)
To: Dr.Zoidberg
LOL! Even a lower primate gets it! ;-)
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:56:16 AM PST
by
Pyro7480
(Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
To: linda_22003
I think these folks have the mentality of scared little bunny rabbits. Specifically, they're afraid to put their character or reputations on the line by actually declaring something. Instead, they phrase their timid little statement as a question, hoping to build consensus. They feel secure only in a group. I find them pathetic.
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:57:52 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Choose Ye This Day
a dish has tastes comprised of different ethnicities.
asian and southwest combined for example.
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:58:40 AM PST
by
wallcrawlr
(Pray for the troops [all the troops here and abroad]: Success....and nothing less!!)
To: Dundee
There is nothing sillier than a young teenage girl. They get a little better when they approach 16. Not to say they aren't sweet and cute, just silly.
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:59:03 AM PST
by
yarddog
To: Morass of Negativity
Notice that number two, with the artificially coloured hair, also has a 'target' on her lower back ...
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posted on
01/09/2006 9:59:11 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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