Work it Outtttttt biotchessss

By the way this is me doing my blog on Thursday, yep Thursday, look at me go! Moving on ….

Okay so during our first few weeks of English class we talked about discourse communities and the languages that exist between them, right? Yes, that happened. And I had seriously never ever thought about that before, or just in that way. I knew it happened I just never actually considered it concretely or how neat it is. I was seriously shocked when people introduced their own words and I had no idea what they meant, it was like listening to words of a foreign language. Then I felt like an idiot trying to explain what “story basket” was because, it’s one of those things that you never ever think of the real definition of what it means when you use it. Realizing that I always refer to an imaginary basket that people in my hometown pretend to wad up bad stories they’ve told and throw them into the basket is just ridiculous. It’s really cool though to realize how unique all of our little communities are.

Anyway so the other day I noticed an example of this whole discourse community language. One of my best friends I’ve actually only known for eight or so months, but something just instantly clicked between us, and he and I are better friends than some of the people I’ve known for years. But yeah so he left a wall post on my wall. Here you can read it:

"May I say hello to you as well?! hello. i did it. yay and STUFF. i am in such a weird/kinda bad mood. BUT IT'S ALL GOOD IN DA HOOD. caps lock is cruise control for cool. I have never hadthis busy of a week! for shiznets. i am sure you are have a crazy busy one as well :(."

Okay ignore the fact that it doesn't make any sense. ;)

And almost every other one of those words that he said are phrases that I say, which he had never used before I met him (well, I don't know about every other, more like but it's all good in the hood. and for shiznets). He went to a different high school than I did and so the things we said were completely different. And now I find myself saying things that he used to say also, it’s kind of neat, it’s like paying it forward with language. ;) There was something that I was going to go further with this idea but then I added this example and walked away from the computer and now I don’t remember…… I still don’t remember but I’ll go on a separate tangent.

I think it’s really crazy though that our communities are so different. I feel like the media influences a lot of the things we say and do and for the most part we all experience the same media. We can all watch Hannah Montana, can flip on Fox News, watch the Office, laugh at comedy central, and then there’s the Hills, Heroes, A Chance of Love, all of these things are probably familiar, at least through our same age groups. So when just talking about language I don’t know how we all say different things, and who invents all of these different sayings? How does one person in Connecticut begin to say something and then people start to follow it until the entire state starts to say it? Or is that not how it happens?

I distinctively remember when “Nasty” became intertwined into our slang and entered our school, as being a good thing. The first time I heard it I was seriously confused. And I mean completely unaware of what was going on, I felt like it was opposite day. My friend my senior year was like, “Yeah, it was nasty!” and I did not understand. Apparently “nasty” now meant awesome, like gnarly. And I just have no idea how that came to be. It’s not pronounced a different way, it’s not “nastay” or.. I don’t know how else you would say it, but you get the idea right? Do you all say nasty? As a good thing? All the sudden the word just started popping up all over my school. Soon it became “sick nasty” and it was out of control! I would seriously ask people what definition of the word they meant; the new adaptation of it or the old Webster version. How do things like this happen?! Except, what’s probably the most weird is now it’s completely natural and normal when I hear someone say it. I have yet to use it, but I can now clearly tell which version of the word they mean, without thinking twice. Odd.

Do people ever think of new words? Is noob a new word or an old one that has been recovered because, wasn’t n00b added into the dictionary a few years ago or something ridiculous? I think though that it would be sweet if we could just come up with a slew of words to fill in all the gaps of vocabulary. The word that I most want to exist is a word between best friend and friend. I feel like good friend basically implies best friend. I need a whole new word for that because, I have this major problem as referring to almost all of my friends as my best friends and some people call me out on it. Especially when referring to people I went to school with because I’ve been at school with them for twelve years so I’m incredibly close with them on a different level. Except with them, I almost wish I could seriously refer to them as my brothers and sisters. They actually mean that much to me, they’ve been that big a part of my life but that’s a different story. Anyway yeah word between friend and best friend, got to get on that.

In other news I used to be in love with Usher when I was in middle school more like in ninth grade. I have no shame though he’s awesome and romantic and sexy. I read an article about him when I was a freshman and it was an interview with him and he was just classy and collected and he talked nice about women and his mom. My mom even read it and decided he was just one swell man. That’s why I want to marry him, well almost; I would rather just be his best friend. Good Story bye Team! ! ! ! ! ! ! <3>