Hey Bill,
U r prob wondering wot's been happening here in Chi-town since u went AWOL to SF. So, FWIW, here' s a rundown.
U remember Sammy rite? (SN 9inchChiStud on M4M4sex). He's da qt who turned out 2 b such a drama queen, 4ever complaining dat his bf would jo 2 str8 porn. Anyway, I'm on AIM 2nite, and he IM's me, "Hey there, A/S/L? My 411: VGL SGWM 24yo 5'10" 155 lbs 9c vers/btm. Pic trade?"
So I'm there LMAO coz he doesn't realize it's me dat he's IM'd. I'm like, WTF! he's not single, tho IMHO he'd be better off w/o da loser, and of course I would <3 2 f*ck him 2day if I could....LOL
Oh btw, FYI b4 I forget, this may be TMI, but did u know Sammy & his bf invited EatMe23 (da SoCal guy u flirted wit @ 3246) over 4 a 3way? Well, turns out da guy is having da MTF surgery in 2 wks so he wanted a final fling & begged them to do WS! OMG! U woulda been ROTFL listening 2 Sammy tell da story...he was like, "OIC, Gr8 dude, well, gtg, cya l8r" & da guy was totally SOL. I don't know N-E-1 else with da "don't mess wit me, bitch" quality of Sammy.
OK, sori abt dat rabbit trail. So back 2 my story, Sammy IM's me so I decide 2 have a little fun & IM back. I type, "Kewl, thx man, nice profile. SGWM 26yo 6'1" 170 lbs 10uc total top here. Lookin 2 play? Long week so TGIF & I'm ready 4 sum fun. Luv 2 start with C2C & go from there. RUUP4IT? I need sex ASAP."
We sent msgs back & forth 4 a while til I was literally ROTFLMAO. Finally he axed 4 a pic & I sent him 1 of me wit da note "Go 2 bed, Sammy, your bf is waiting 4 u." He just abt died! But, 2 show his gratitude 4 not telling his bf, he's gonna cum over 2moro 4 a bit while his bf is @ wrk....details TBA ;-).
Well, I c dat it's time 4 GH 2 start, so I will write more l8r. Hugz to George & Arnie....tell George 2 get sum R&R soon or I'll slap him, ok? (JK...hehe).
TTFN, remember it's EZ 2 pick up a phone & call sumtime! XOXO, SWAK, & BFF,
Luv, Aaron
:EOM
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The Death of the English Language (aka "And You Thought Beowulf Was Hard to Read?")
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despite the rumors, i'm a big proponent of undermining the english language and all its silly rules. i'm quite fascinated with african-americans in particular, their use of ebonics (as popularly labeled) and think it's the literary equivalent of jazz (i go on adam4adam for more than just hot dick). brilliant. don't even get me started on kafka and his issues with language and identity. anyway, i'm a big fan of cyber-language for the same reasons. faulkner and joyce would be proud. nietzsche would coin his own phrases to suit his own vision. in the same light, i hold spelling bees and bee-snobs with the same contempt that i would literary prizes. it's absurd, really, if you think about it. origins... we forget about origins... if you do a little research, you'll find out why spelling conformity even became a convention in the first place (pure laziness)... no, i'm huge on straying from orthodox spelling traditions... faulkner himself is a perfect case in point (the faulkner we know is not the way his name is originally spelled). anyway, most of papers i've written have been related to deconstructive post-modernism and although some people might think it's out of vogue and declasse, when has pulling the philosopohical rug out from underneath inveterate truths ever been out of fashion? having said all of this, i'm still not naive to think i can get by in this world without a little bit of conformity. language is this cornerstone of all critical communication, and although i'd like to think i'm a dionysian incarnate of the imageless Blank, i'm humbled knowing i live my life with one foot in and one foot out of the house of metaphysics.
Narcissist ;-) hehe
hmm...some of the cyber language makes no sense though. I mean, whay type "kewl" when it is the exact same length as "cool". I would think "kewl" is more difficult to type since "cool" hass the double o's. Oh, whatever.....
Im having a migraine reading it
The English language has been "dying" for centuries, boo hoo hoo. Though here, I think it's important to distinguish between the spoken language and the orthographic version rendered above. Yes, some of the abbreviations and acronyms have made their way into the spoken language, but the spoken version has pretty much stayed constant with what we know/hear with our everyday interlocutors. In fact, this example is an interesting case of spelling trying to catch up with the spoken word, a phenomenon that doesn't happen quite often. The text that's been reproduced follows the time-honored linguistic principle of the "Law of Least Effort". Information theory sums it up greatly -- transmit your message as unambiguously as possible in the least number of bits.
All hail the decline of the English language!
I can hardly believe that I read and understood ALL of that (Well, except for WS... what is that?)!
WS = Water Sports (yuck)
These comments humor me, because I honestly wasn't trying to make a controversial statement when I wrote it. I was just trying to be funny. :)
ROFLMAO...u make me laff...
The English language isn't dying, it's developing and growing. What makes English the greatest language in the world (in my opinion anyway) is that it absorbs new words and new phrasology from other languages.
English is a mongrel language, with origins from all over Europe and what makes me proud to say I am English, is that I accept the fact that we are a mongrel nation with a mongrel language. (Mongrel is not here a negative phrase, Mongrel dogs are soooo much cooler than pedigree ones!) Pedigree languages, like pedigree dogs, just don't work, they grow old, stagnant and die! In France, they try desperately to keep French pure, by stopping anglicised words from being used and by creating new french words and rules. Young people in France are refusing to abide by these rules and are creating their own language which uses and enjoys franglais in all its glory.
It is a shame that people have become so narrow minded that they are unable to take on board everything that these new variants of english have to offer, whilst still cherishing the remnants of Chaucer, Shakespeare and the like. Is it not ideal for us to expand our vocabularyies and our styles to encompass as much as possible?
I recently saw Stephen Fry (a champion of the English language) defending text language on the Jonathan Ross show. As long as English continues to grow, encompass other languages and develop then I am sure it will remain the language of the world.
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