Archive for May 31st, 2007

Landscape of the American Lexicon

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

I can’t seem to gather my thoughts tonight. They are a mish-mash of words and meanings. And other stuff. I’ve been thinking about how certain words and phrases have been accepted into our everyday language. Some of them are downright peculiar, at least for everyday talk.

Here’s how it started: I was scrolling through the comments on someone’s MySpace page. A friend of a friend, a woman who seems to be sweet and has several young children. Tucked among the various comments from her friends was one with an illustrated image of a sexy woman and sparkly swirly letters. The personal note from the friend said “Happy Mothers Day!” and the sparkly swirly letters on the image said: “Total MILF Award.”

And it’s supposed to be a compliment… right? I mean, isn’t that how it’s intended to be taken? But it’s such a crude compliment. One woman is telling her friend, also a woman, “You win the ‘Mom I’d Like to Fuck’ Award.”

And the whole pimp this and pimp that thing… Clearly I’m getting old. Pimp wasn’t a cool thing to be that long ago. Well, not in a general population way.

So it’s cool to be phat but you could still get dissed if you are fat. A bitch is still a negative term for a female but calling her a beeyash is funny.

I don’t know. I’m too tired to pursue this anymore tonight. It started earlier then the phone rang, email came in, li’l m messaged me, my spouse called, the cat wanted food, I remembered to water the fuschia. My writing skills suck tonight.

To be continued…

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