Comments on: I'm like… OMG!

By: j_p_z

j_p_z — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:36:31 +0000

Sorry, off-topic, but…

Dr. Cat, the other day I caught your charming discussion of the word ‘crepuscule’ over at your new place (nice jernt, btw), and found myself wondering whether you’re familiar with Thelonious Monk’s lovely composition “Crepuscule with Nellie”. It’s a marvelous piece in its own right, only helped the more by the fact that he wrote it for his wife (I think maybe even literally at her bedside) while she was in the hospital.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled hilarious discussion of usage arana.

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:27:20 +0000

It is him!

By: Sez Paylen

Sez Paylen — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:24:47 +0000

Clueless was like post-Valley speak irony. Kim, you’re twenty years behind the times.

By: paul walter

paul walter — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:05:03 +0000

Ozy, I see we are now moving from a thread full of snide humour at manufactured crazes and the foibles of young people, to a glimpse at something darker.
We suggest teenagers are dorky and are inclined to laugh at their clumsy responses to initiation into consumer culture, perhaps thinking belatedly later of the complex mental and emotional processes involved and howlittle we know about the possible results of these manipulations.
We fail recognise how they are manipulated into this sort of out of touch with reality being and behaviour by mass marketing subverting culture and psychology worth hundreds of $millions employed for the dubious “benefit” of f-cked-in-the-head corporates.
Instincts and and traits inculcated and part of through parenting and the grothprocess, exploit inexperience toward a consumer oriented goal,regardless of consequences.
Some suggest consumers are not conditioned. Why then the amounts of money spent on dreaming up products as useful as a hippocket on a singlet and then “selling” them ( including “wiring” consumers )?
And if there is complicity,( of course there is, given complex human nature!) is not this complicity exploited toward the end of a world unnecessarily wilfully divided along the lines of oppression by manufactured capricious haves who don’t know themselves and suffering have-nots whose suffering will never be known?

By: TimT

TimT — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:17:22 +0000

Yer all wrong. The origin of the 'like' dialect has got to be the Turtles. Cowabunga, man!

By: Ozymandias

Ozymandias — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:36:15 +0000

paul walter @ 43 -isn’t it just as well Kennedy didn’t make that speech in Hamburg? I guess Frankfurt was off the itinerary for similar reasons.

The prevalence of “like” in yoof-speak reflects the absence of *real* in modern western life. How much of an infant’s brain is now devoted to working out whether something is actually existent, rather than a representation? “Like” means “an acceptable facsimile”.

By: paul walter

paul walter — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:05:16 +0000

If you want to call Jack Kerouac and James Dean “boomers”, one guesses so, Katz.

By: Katz

Katz — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:49:52 +0000

So, in relation to “like” the baby boomers got there first, again.

By: paul walter

paul walter — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:37:33 +0000

It’s true that a minor grammatical error robs above of its true grandeur, but a more cultivated observer would have seen past technical breaches of to an immanent greatness of substance..
Ambi:
“Ich bin ein Berliner”…
Beat that!

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:22:21 +0000

Paul W: I speak for myself. Here I stand, I can not do otherwise. (hier stehe ich, usw)