At one point in the book they discuss how in the monkey trading business (not all monkey trading business's, just this particular one in Africa where the virus originated) all the sick monkey's were put on an island together. Because of the concentrated population of sick monkey's, the island became a 'hot zone' for viruses.
It just occured to me that a similar thing takes place among my friends. Although not with viruses (incase you were worried, we're a healthy bunch), instead we seem to have (among the girls at least) a hot zone for lingo if you will. While it's pretty common for teenagers to say things such as "like," "oh my god," etc., those expressions have mutated so rapidly and become so strong that it is verging on uncontrollable. We've taken normal, harmless words like definitely and changed it to "def," or totally to "tot" and so on with more absurd abbreviations. But that isn't the worst of it. Somehow our expressions have gotten so totally mutated that you can often catch us saying "oh my god, that is seriously like the coolest thing ever times ten.com!" I know... It's shameful, it really is. But the fact is, it's a serious problem facing a portion of my friends today...
But there is hope! There is a chance that we will not always have to live with this terrible deformity of expressions and words. In the past, cases such as these have been known to clear up on their own and morph back into normal words and expressions. If not, a few years of college shoudl help to fix the problem, unless of course it just worsens and we spread this terrible disease to the rest of the world... I guess we'll see. But in the mean time, I need to go to bed, cause it's like seriously so late times ten.com, like I'm not even kidding.
Posted by lib at April 11, 2004 12:00 AM