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January 08, 2006

Ministry Of Silly Links

(Howard) "Dean" and "Sam" (Alito) duet, with animation. Just plain goofy.

Teenaged girls are the engine of the evolution of the English language:

THE teenage girl is the most powerful influence on the evolution of the English language around the world.

...

"Valley Girl has gone beyond a fad and is now rooted in different forms of English around the world," Ms Tagliamonte said. "Girls are the single most powerful force in the English language today." The research was among work discussed at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society in New Mexico over the weekend.

...

"Females are very quick to pick up on any aspect of fashion, whether it is clothing or speech, that shows off status. Men are less quick to do so," he said.

True dat. Men don't like buying into hip lingo, except when done ironically. We just don't like gettin' jiggy with English. It's because we're sexually repressed, it turns out:

Barry Spurr, senior lecturer in English at the University of Sydney, said social pressures meant Australian men in particular were more reluctant to display their language abilities.

"They are afraid to be seen expressing thought because they are sexually insecure," Dr Spurr said. "They want to be seen to be real men and the standard for real men wouldn't be seen to express a thought.

"The big problem in Australia is getting young men to talk at all. Girls are much more orally adventurous."

Ahem.

And it's not a new phenomenon:

In addition, women seeking prestige pick up fashionable new words faster than men. Experts believe this has been going on for centuries. A Finnish study of 15th-century English court correspondence shows that aristocratic wives moved from archaic "ye" to "you" significantly earlier than their husbands.

Really? I think I'm moving back to "ye," then. I won't be henpecked into using these edgy, hip neologisms.

Thanks to the A-Man.


posted by Ace at 01:01 PM
Comments



Orally adventurous. mmm.

Posted by: fretless on January 8, 2006 01:24 PM

Teenage girls are the driving force for EVERYTHING...
Music
Fashion
Language
Culture

Teenage men (and older) will put up with a lot just to get next to the Valley Girls, no matter what it is they like.

Posted by: Pupster on January 8, 2006 01:32 PM

Yo, Ace:

I'm down with ye.

YA RLY.

Posted by: Carl O. Witz on January 8, 2006 01:50 PM

It's like you said about 1% of the population having 50% of the wealth. Teenage girls are 1% of the population and they do 50% of the talking. I mean they just Never Shut Up! (Not like when I was a teenage girl. I wasn't at all unbearable to be around.)

Posted by: shell on January 8, 2006 03:18 PM

Based on this, I imagine Barry (and Ace) are unrestrained confident sex maniacs.

Posted by: slickdpdx on January 8, 2006 03:32 PM

[Men] are afraid to be seen expressing thought because they are sexually insecure," Dr Spurr said.

"Dr. Spurr, allow me to introduce you to Dick Cheney's cock..."

WHOA, DICK! NO! NOOOOO! SOMEBODY CALL 911!

Posted by: Bullington on January 8, 2006 03:34 PM

We just don't like gettin' jiggy with English

This from the gender that has several hundred pet names for its own genitalia.

Posted by: shawn on January 8, 2006 03:40 PM

Me, I'm going to go back to saying "mickle grody" instead of "grody to the max".

Posted by: Paul Zrimsek on January 8, 2006 04:45 PM

Ayyyy. 'Day, mate. 'kay. Bloody hell. Think I'm gunna... ahhh... you know... anyhow... n you? Yeah, too right. Bugger me. Yeah, beer, thanks.

Posted by: Australia's poet laureate on January 8, 2006 05:20 PM

I'd say that the biggest influence on current "fashionable" language is rap music/culture which is overwhelmingly male dominated. Movies contribute "trendy" phases and those are mostly made by men. Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, South Park, and other trendy comedy shows are all created predominantly by young men, and have added hip lingo to the vernacular.

If their only example is "Valley Girl"speak, that happened 20 years ago! Some trendiness. "Gag me with a spoon!"

Posted by: BeJezzuz on January 8, 2006 05:26 PM

My personal favorite contribution by teenage girls (not): The speech fad that popularized the rising inflection.

My favorite response by a celebrity: Jimmy Kimmel on "Win Ben Stein's Money" -- a contestant described herself as a student at Occidental College majoring in Anthropology (insert rising inflection ???)

Kimmel's response: "Are you sure?"

Posted by: capitano on January 8, 2006 06:49 PM

Men can talk all right, and thank God it's about different things than women do so that women like me have people to talk with.

So girls are more orally adventurous than men, eh? Who knew, Monica, who knew?

Posted by: Helen on January 8, 2006 08:31 PM

This from the gender that has several hundred pet names for its own genitalia.

Yeah, what's up with that? Guys have all kinds of pet names for their junk, but I've been told that "pussy" is the only acceptable pet name for female genitalia, amongst the dozens of alternatives that females find offensive.

Can't the ladies get creative? Give us some choices?

Posted by: Michael on January 8, 2006 09:58 PM

I call it the quinny. Help me out with this. This term needs to enter the standard American lexicon. Everybody, say it along with me: quinny. Kinduv rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? The term "pussy" just somehow seems a little too nasty for semi-polite company, whereas "vagina" is too clinical and "cooch" is too juvenile. It's called a quinny, folks.

Posted by: sandy burger on January 8, 2006 10:41 PM

The Kitty

Posted by: Lipstick on January 8, 2006 11:03 PM

Its been said that about 20% of english words have been used as a euphamism for female genitalia at some point in history, much of it during the Victorian era.

Posted by: MikeTheLibrarian on January 8, 2006 11:54 PM

Yeah, I'd like to get into her "the".

Posted by: sandy burger (Victorian era version) on January 8, 2006 11:59 PM
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