A Crack on the Road
Aside from abused self-reflexive pronouns (which betray a natural human egocentrism) There are a bunch of words that I think are ridiculous and overused: "world", "life", "good", "society", "like". Additionally, the following phrases are overused: "economic crisis", "I'm not in the mood", "It's not you..."
Words with curiosity:
"gay" It once meant happiness and was claimed as a symbol of homosexual pride. Then it was faggotized/ turned into an insult. Today it means stupid. ... and gays still embrace the word gay.
"faggot" In England it is a pile of sticks or meatball (wtf). In America it means cigarette. Somehow it is an insult/pejorative term for gays.
"fuck" A greater contribution to American culture from England than the language itself, Fornication Under Consent of King is an interesting term which when acronymized serves as an all-purpose adjective/verb/adverb... and also as a pronoun!
"pussy" I love this word that can be replaced both with "cat" and "female genitals" at the same time that it serves as an insult which means "weak-one".
I don't feel like explaining necessarily why any of this is of interest. Maybe someday I'll write an article on the variability and escapability of language. After all, words are merely an inadequate toy we use to make known out thoughts. But would we have thoughts without language? hmm...
Monsieur Robert, your list is very short and circumstancial; what about love, infinity, God, disease or cat?. On the other hand, if we try neologisms every day; we will get back to our own solitary and individual self and will not be able tocommunicate....Communicatting is really so important? Who knows
Anonymous said... March 21, 2009 at 2:20 PM
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