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As a language professional (sounds like I talk dirty to you\nfor cash) I like being up on all of the current lingo trends and fads. The\nworld of language is fascinating and always changing. There\u2019s a way grammar\nbooks say we talk and then there\u2019s the way we actually talk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most native speakers know that you technically shouldn\u2019t say\n\u201cI\u2019m done working\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m good\u201d in response to \u201cHow are you?\u201d They know that\nyou shouldn\u2019t say \u201cliterally\u201d when you\u2019re intensifying, but rather when you are\nspeaking literally. But the thing is, this is how people actually speak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you can\u2019t accept these things, you reveal yourself to be\nstubbornly behind the linguistic times. And this is nothing to be proud of, and\nyou would do well to keep in mind that your generation is no better linguistically\nthan this one. Your generation \u2013 greatest, boomer, X, Y, or Z \u2013 all gleefully broke\nlanguage rules of yore and the ways you broke them became everyday language. So\ndon\u2019t be so judgmental.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That being said, some of it bugs me like an ulcer on my tongue. For example, I hate a mix up between your <\/em>and you\u2019re <\/em>or worse between they\u2019re<\/em>, their<\/em>, and there<\/em>. I find it to be a case where technology helps us cut linguistic corners and in the process renders many of us thumb-scrolling troglodytes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t like some current trends. \u201cI can\u2019t even\u201d or, in its more advanced state: \u201cI can\u2019t even with these people.\u201d If you\u2019ve seen this online you have no doubt pieced together that it\u2019s an epithet of exasperation. And I get that, but all the while my brain is screeching any number of appropriate words and phrases to make this a sentence that would have made sense twenty years ago. I can\u2019t even deal<\/em> with these people. I can\u2019t even cope<\/em> with these people. I can\u2019t even stand<\/em> this trend<\/em>. I can\u2019t even understand<\/em> why people can’t add a fucking verb to this utterance<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another one that gets under my skin is \u201cThis\u201d along with a meme\nor article that the poster feels particularly captures the essence of an issue\nor current topic. While I accept that it exists and serves a purpose, I can\u2019t help\nfeeling as though users of this are simply too lazy to properly explain why\nthey think the meme or article is so accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One area in which the current generation is far and away ahead of every other generation is in their terminology for people who piss us off. Don\u2019t get me wrong, every generation has done this to some extent. But it\u2019s the specificity of the broken social law that these terms point to that really amazes me. There is little concrete difference between a jerk <\/em>and a dick <\/em>or an asshole <\/em>and a fucker<\/em>. In Pittsburgh, I once overheard two mechanics at work talking about our boss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mechanic A: He’s a motherfucking cocksucking asshole kissing blowhard piece of goddamn monkey shit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mechanic B: Nah, he’s a jagoff<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mechanic A: Yeah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned quickly in Pittsburgh that jagoff <\/em>transcended all other insults, and yet I have no real specific understanding of what it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days the insults are extraordinarily specific. When someone is called a gatekeeper<\/em>, we know exactly what their infraction was. This also goes for a mansplainer<\/em>, a manspreader<\/em>, and a manterrupter<\/em>. Most of us catch the gist of a bridezilla<\/em>, we while we know that it\u2019s a high crime to culturally appropriate, we can piece together a man who bropropriates<\/em>. Everyone knows at least one errorist <\/em>(someone who propagates an error. Hello right wing and Ukraine.) and we can probably sit back, envision, and develop an instant and intense dislike for a trustafarian<\/em>. Someone who sits across from you at a bar and looks at their phone is cellfish <\/em>and a white person who \u201cdiscovers\u201d 2000 + year old matcha tea is guilty of Columbusing<\/em>. (No, it\u2019s not going to the wrong island and killing everyone there.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to hand it to you guys, you\u2019ve really made teaching English and being interested in language fun these days. If for no other reason than I have found out exactly and specifically just what kind of an asshole I am. In case you\u2019re wondering, it\u2019s an askhole<\/em>. (Someone who asks for advice, and never takes it).   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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