"Oh my God! I sooo can't believe you just said that!", "Yeah well she aint got nuffin' ...
Posted on 01/11/2010 7:00:37 PM PST by smokingfrog
Teenagers have been warned they are becoming unemployable because they use a vocabulary of just 800 words.
The limited linguistic range also consists of many made up words and 'teenspeak' which has developed through modern communication methods such as text messaging and social networking sites.
Today Jean Gross, who advises the Government on children's speech, said urgent action was required to prevent children failing to find jobs because they are unable to communicate.
Mrs Goss, who last week issued a stark warning over the effect of television on children's development said yesterday: 'Teenagers are spending more time communicating through electronic media and text messaging, which is short and brief.
'We need to help today's teenagers understand the difference between their textspeak and the formal language they need to succeed in life — 800 words will not get you a job.'
The majority of teenagers should have developed a broad vocabulary of 40,000 words by the time they reach 16.
Linguists have found, however, that although they may understand thousands of words, many choose to limit themselves to a much smaller range in regular conversation and on a daily basis could use as few as 800 terms.
Mrs Gross said her concerns were increased by research by Tony McEnery, a professor of linguistics at Lancaster University who analysed 10 million words of transcribed speech and 100,000 words gathered from teenagers' blogs.
He found that the top 20 words used by teenagers, including 'yeah', 'no' and 'but', account for about a third of all words used.
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“Veni, Vidi, Vickie” - “I came, I saw, I’m like Omigawd!”
I am SO out of it I suppose, but is that from some movie!? On another one of these types of threads a freeper said this, and someone else took it for a tagline. (It is funny!)
So, does like “Yo!” like count?
(If not, you’ll jus half to cole me down on the pannie sty, you baddy daddy lamatai tabby chai!)
I stole it from the tagline. Would have given credit, but I forgot who I stole it from.
I was wondering. Well - it SHOULD be in some movie! (Maybe it was.)
My 12-year old daughter does a VERY good valley girl impression. Although after about five sentences it is annoying and we all tell her to stop!
"Oh my God! I sooo can't believe you just said that!", "Yeah well she aint got nuffin' ...
Primer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnVE3UTIgEM
.....and her real legal name is “Moon Unit Zappa.”
So what’s it going to be then, eh?
How about a bit of of ol’ ultraviolence then? It was just me and my droogs. At the milkbar. There was Dim, who was really dim...
Looks like she’s carrying a future presidential candidate.
Hope they remember to get a Birth Certificate.
I have a 12 , 14 &16 year old. None of whom have a cell phone. just got their first computers and aren’t allowed on internet without my knowing.
and I absolutely have a number one rule! NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO SAY “DUDE” IN MY EARSHOT!
Damn! I’m pretty sure i do that.
Is Pollard by any chance related to Barr or O’Donnel?
Nah, never mind, I see now that it’s the same family (CommieLib Mushbrain Feminohorribilis) but the Genus ‘Eurotwit’ and the Species ‘Britainicus Degeneratus.’
Not that I would ever ascribe ancient Greek religious history to linguistic lackwits *but* “Yo” is pretty much how “Io!” is pronounced in the invocation to the Horned God, Pan.
[”Io! Pan!”]
It basically was a call and hail to the god, either in general worship or invocation designed to produce a physical incarnation/manifestation.
It’s still used in pagan ritual but I don’t know how they keep a straight face, considering its context, now.
[”Yo, mama!” would be a good analogy...sort of]...:)
That was one of the most depressing books I’ve ever read. The photo appears to be male, but I wouldn’t bet very much money on it.
I listened to enough RWR as a teen, and still like to listen to his speeches, audio clips, etc. Over the years I have taken to starting a lot of my answers and commentary with, "Well...."
The pic is from a BBC show called Little Britain and that is a guy and that is the way he talks it is a very un pc show and he has about 20 different characters..
Very very funny...
Not pan, Pan. LOL
Only a demi-god. Not “upper crust” enough.
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