times are a changing.

Our Language is Changing

       This will be a short blog as I just wanted to point out an observation I made, of which I am sure you are all aware of.  A recent commercial I have just recently heard from Verizon and that has to deal with the new friends and families plan and a new word to be added to our vocabulary . It is framily , a combination of friends and family, and you have to listen closely to hear it on the commercial, this along with Mc Donaldishous is one of a bunch of vocabulary changes I see trending in advertising but eventually creeps and must I emphasize creep into our lives and mouths and becomes permanent fixtures there for years to come. This scares me to think that advertising trends should shape our future language usage.

       Already since I have been born into this world around 1955 , look at the words that were being used to describe things in our world that are no longer used , and those since then that are part of our common usage now. Our language is always changing, and part of it is due to social usage and the other may be due to media usage, and technology changes that influence people’s lives. Also in ever changing speed it up abbreviate everything we do-era of society we live in today we slang the heck out of our language, and this accounts for words like puter , now true that. Even that last little ditty in the last fragment of the last sentence, true that, allows you to say forcefully and with authority you believe all you represent is true and if you think it is wrong then prove it.

       I came from a long line of changes beginning with the early space program and TV was in its infancy and as  we sat religiously glued to the device soaking up all the info that was spewing forth from it over the years . Flintstones with their Yabba, Yabba yah do, or the various rock singers slurring words into new meanings over the years. I have to admit there are still some songs from my era that I still wonder if there is a word that sounds like that. Listen to Stevie Nicks or Fleetwood Mac and sing along sometime, and tell me you know all the words or can understand. No cheating by going to lyrics section. And she is just an example of how our language is ever changing. And just like we can no longer understand spoken real ancient English language, I feel the changes we have experienced in the last 100 years and up to date will forever change our vocabulary and the way we speak forever. In 100 years we will be finding it increasingly harder to understand just what we are talking about now.

      Change is coming at us at an ever growing pace as instantly our thoughts can be shared with an immense audience, and though the residual effects of a catchy icon of our time may not be retained by all, it still spreads more aggressively than ever before. Thanks to social media and the internet. This surely will make us change our way of interacting with each other and influence our patterns of speaking. All this will hasten a departure from the norms and some words will fall into limited use, words like hot wheels, meaning the cars that we used to play with as kids , and who remembers silly putty. She was like silly putty in my hands as I reached out to her and touched her with my giant claw tenderly grasping her shoulder. She looked at me like she had just copied a sad face of a woman who had met her match from a picture in a newspaper. Having applied herself in her naked moldable condition to the surface of the paper and then when picked up showed a mirrored resemblance of that sad girl. Yeah that silly putty. Another new word of our time is dis. She dissed the girl in the gang. All these were typical examples of our ever changing vocabulary.

       So in a 100 years I wonder what will be important is those things that will be an issue then. Will advertising still continue to overwhelm us as they try to push their products down our throats continually trying to come up with that little song or ditty that sticks in our mind and we sing to ourselves over and over until we want to bang our heads against a wall and lose consciousness. Imagine they will call those ditties birth control then. Isn’t that special-ishous. Wont you all be part of my framily? Doesn’t it just make you want to buy something?

this was taken 3-31 of last year at oardc. spring is a little late this year by almost 3 week. those same trees are just blooming now.