language blog Posted by poolboyjames on August 17, 2009 at 9:45 AM comments (0)i want to talk a bit about vocab
i have realized a number of people don't understand words that are fairly common like for example: the other day i was talking to a girl and i was like "is he being vague?" she was like 'what?' so i was like.. "u know, is he trying to be elusive, or eluding your questions?" she was like 'can u speak english?' and one time i gave this girl at my job a cd, and she was like.. "u have great beats on there.. and when i listen to u rap i feel like i'm listening to a college lecture or something" this just mainly made me think about what she is probably used to especially being here in the south, u have these rappers who are extremely dumbed down and blunt with the things they say and their execution oftentimes its not like "i want to reach new heights with u emotionally through passion and intimacy" its just "i want to suck yo' titties" LOL go figure ------------------------------------------------------ so anyway.. another thing i was thinking about -that is along the lines of language is curse-words like they are supposedly bad or negative on some level.. however oftentimes in our culture they are just used as exclamation points to normal sentences "this is nasty" = this entree is not desirable "this shit is nasty!" = what are you feeding me!? here's another example: "she is ugly" = she is unattractive "she is f*cked UP!" = she looks like lil wayne's daughter (LOL ...had to do it) anyway.. what do u guys think of that? me personally, i agree that curse words are oftentimes light-hearted and just used as exclamation points so sometimes i do use them in my life, but not often at all and i never use them in music, that's a standard i have had for my music for a long time that i just stick to curse words can be bad or good tho.. (with good mostly meaning "humorous") -------------------------------------------------------- so anyway.. the last thing i wanted to talk about along the lines of language was the use of the word "literal" when i was little i never could get a true grasp of what that word meant because people take it out of context in order to (again) put an exclamation point/emphasis on their statement people will say things like "that person is so fat they can't fit through the door.. literally" and the person is fat, but they can totally fit through doors its just that the person saying that wanted to add more "umph" to their statement "that was so gross that i just projectile-vomited... literally" and there is no vomit anywhere.. thus they are using a word for the exact opposite of its intended use because they're using 'literal' in a non-literal sense it has always just struck me as odd how people do that LITERALLY. (true sense of the word) food for thought.
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