This morning as I read my favorite cartoons, I was like, “What in the #%&*#% is happening to our language?”
My husband was all, ”Don’t let the thang bother you.”
Then I was all, “Jusfegitaboutit!”
All kidding aside, LOL, we’re experiencing the downward spiral of English in every walk of life.
When I hear, “She was all, ‘Get outta my face!’” I understand that a girl was angry and wanted another person to leave her alone. However, the laziness of the speaker is irritating and is an example of the demise of our verbal communication.
As a reader, writer, and sometimes editor, it is troubling to encounter certain words which used to only be scrawled surreptitiously on back-facing walls of buildings or freeway underpasses, now used nonstop in novels, magazines, and the vocabulary of half the population. Sometimes words are thinly disguised so as not to offend, but even the youngest reader knows what effing, freaking, f_____, and frigging are supposed to mean, and thinks it as they read the substitute. Sorry.
Thousands of perfectly good adjectives are no longer used because this certain word, in every form imaginable, is the adjective, adverb, verb, and noun of choice. After all, it’s so much easier than finding the perfect part of speech. Certainly, someone will say only that word will do because the situation called for it, or the people being written about used it. However, I think there are much better words to describe anger, sadness, despair, or any other emotion.
We are used to seeing “#%*<&” in our cartoons representing any sort of profanity. Who knows, if we aren’t careful, the real words may someday be in cartoons just as they already are in many other forms of communication. OMGosh!
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