fiction files redux discussion

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hi patrick!!! thanks for posting !!! that was astonishing!!! :P

i am sure ms. smyles would not approve of my exclamation point use in the welcome thread. :)

at first i liked what she was saying, but by the end she kind of seemed to be a bit of a prig. i agree that greece is probably not ridiculous or sick and shouldn't be characterized as such, but really, she must have understood that he was flinging the lingo. flingo the lingo? let us consider. anyway. if she hadn't written "CD's" instead of "CDs" i might have been more empathetic. :)

"flingo the lingo" I love you Mo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha And I agree, she did become priggish toward the end.

I originally joined Myspace to read my teen nieces' sites. After repeatedly seeing them describe nearly everything as "amazing" (OMG thats so amazing!!!!) I asked my niece what she thought she might call it when something amazing actually did occur in her life. She said, "what do you mean?"

Oh, and I had a friend when I was a teen who described anything really fun as "ridiculous!!". I guess he wasn't the hottie in the restaurant.

Yeah...that's redonkulous!

People use words like amazing and ridiculous so often that they have to create new words to mean "more amazing" or "more ridiculous" which, to me, just defeats the purpose and power of words.

Redonkulous is terrific!

If there was one word I would divest from my vocabulary it would be like.

I can't help it that I was raised during the time of the valley girl! It was, like, a total accident of birth!

Like, totally! Gag me with a chainsaw!

(Fortunately, saying "I was all, like, what?" has not wormed its way in...)

The one I can't stand that everyone said at my high school was "da-da-da-da-da" - as in "So, I was, like, I'm not going out with you and da-da-da-da-da..." Was there actually anything said there? You can't come up with an adequate way to end your sentence so da-da-da-da-da just seemed more appropriate? I've heard variations as well - bu-nu-nu-nu-nun or ba-da-da-da-da.

My little sinful word -- Totally! Used similarly to Lauren's "I know, right?"

"I'm so tired." "Totally!"

Lauren wrote: "A big one that I'm guilty of is "I know, right?" after ANY statement ANYONE makes that I'd agree with.

Like.. "Man, its hot out here." "I know, right?!"

"I'm so tired." "I know, right?"

"I enjoy..."

I have a friend who says this, even after questions.
"what was that guy name?" "I know, right?"
"Can someone explain x to me?" "Right?"

It drives me nuts.

Everyone knows the more extreme version of amazing is jamazing. Or, wait, is that just my friends?
Verbal fads come and go, words evolve. You can't stop them. In a lot of cases you can't even help joining in with them.

Looked it up on urbandictionary.com and it isn't just my friends. Jamazing has unofficially entered the English language.

Abi wrote: "Looked it up on urbandictionary.com and it isn't just my friends. Jamazing has unofficially entered the English language.

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i guess i'm officially speaking and writing the old language now, circa '70's, and it freaks me out.