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And so it starts...
Apr. 24th, 2006 07:59 pmWell, I've got to finish this 6-8 pager for Anthropology of Linguistics, in which I've focused on the speech patterns of Myself, Lindsay, Tammy, and Sherry, so help me God.
On that note, if any of you girls have any last minute thoughts or rememberances of certain linguisitic patterns that seem to keep popping up, or ever any discussions we've had that really sit in your mind, do tell me. More examples are better than fewer, that's my motto. The list I have so far is:
-Using "I/you/he/she/[name] win[s]!" "Sucks/lose/wins at life" "My life hurts" "making the baby Jesus cry" "you WENT there"
-talking in the first person for a 3rd person i.e. "and he was like 'I win!'"
-putting nouns together = comic gold i.e. "brain-thought"
-fangirl/internet speak, including: is love, crack, OTP (LMNOTP, anyone? ^_^) TEH sex
-using "what" instead of "that"
-"like/sort of/ya know"= commitment
-racial/negative slurs for each other as gag: spic, white trash, jappy mcnipnip, butchy mcbulldyke, idiot savant etc
-catchphrases in other languages, in Spanish, Gaelic, Italian, German: "Tammy fior/Hace frio/Fa freddo" (damnit, Lindsay, how do you spell all that gaelic we use! helps!) "Me Gusta!" "Nein!" "Anch'io" "POR QUE! (always in capitals btw) "Mi maith laom" (trans. plz?)
-genitals plural = bad for Sherry i.e. "balls"...however, "tits" is good.
-The mentioning of embarrassing but funny stories/memories as bookmarked with "I blocked that" or "Never speak of this again", even though they WILL come up again, and sometimes will be brought up by the person who demanded the memories must never be talked of again (I feel like this is mainly in my case, but I do see us trying to control the discussion of uncomfie/embarrassing things by demanding this. It's like, by saying that before and after, it makes it allowable to laugh over it in the moment)
-lots of double negatives
-mimicry of accents/voice actors/characters i.e. Bobcat Goldthwait, South Park John Travolta (OMIGAWD!), Mickey Mouse "Aha, you could get killed!" which snowballs into more WILDLY INAPPROPRIATE things to say as the Mouse. There seems to be an importance of saying odd, unexpected things and in certain voices i.e. "you gonna get RAPED!", or yiddish catch phrases
-the dramatic NO!, and talking about our lives in terms of movie narrative: ticking plot clocks, quests, naming ourselves the archetypes i.e. Lindsay=villain, I=sidekick/comic relief
-WE DISCUSS LANGUAGE. We are reflexive of what we say. Mainly I think it's cause Lindsay and I have/are taking classes about language, so it comes up, we are/being taught to think about language.
-when we are together, we don't allow time for silence. SOMEONE is always jumping in, the language pattern is hectic, crazy, jumbled up, we interrupt violently, energy is up, big "eureka!" inside joke creating moments...and I think that's how we are able to come up with things like dropkick housing and Jesus lamb of goats eating our handbaskets to hell.
-use of text messaging/AIM
-Schadenfreude
So, I think I've got a pretty sweet 6-8 pager from this list. But any other observations are appreciated.
And, I leave the three of you with this thought, if you want to add your two cents: think about how language challenges YOUR identity, what people say about you, what we say about eachother, how we talk to each other and talk back in return. How do we DO friendship through our way of speaking? I've got my own ideas, but if you blighters think of something else, I could rock that.
May Jesus Lamb of Goats be with you always, eating the devil's handbaskets and saving us all. AMEN.
On that note, if any of you girls have any last minute thoughts or rememberances of certain linguisitic patterns that seem to keep popping up, or ever any discussions we've had that really sit in your mind, do tell me. More examples are better than fewer, that's my motto. The list I have so far is:
-Using "I/you/he/she/[name] win[s]!" "Sucks/lose/wins at life" "My life hurts" "making the baby Jesus cry" "you WENT there"
-talking in the first person for a 3rd person i.e. "and he was like 'I win!'"
-putting nouns together = comic gold i.e. "brain-thought"
-fangirl/internet speak, including: is love, crack, OTP (LMNOTP, anyone? ^_^) TEH sex
-using "what" instead of "that"
-"like/sort of/ya know"= commitment
-racial/negative slurs for each other as gag: spic, white trash, jappy mcnipnip, butchy mcbulldyke, idiot savant etc
-catchphrases in other languages, in Spanish, Gaelic, Italian, German: "Tammy fior/Hace frio/Fa freddo" (damnit, Lindsay, how do you spell all that gaelic we use! helps!) "Me Gusta!" "Nein!" "Anch'io" "POR QUE! (always in capitals btw) "Mi maith laom" (trans. plz?)
-genitals plural = bad for Sherry i.e. "balls"...however, "tits" is good.
-The mentioning of embarrassing but funny stories/memories as bookmarked with "I blocked that" or "Never speak of this again", even though they WILL come up again, and sometimes will be brought up by the person who demanded the memories must never be talked of again (I feel like this is mainly in my case, but I do see us trying to control the discussion of uncomfie/embarrassing things by demanding this. It's like, by saying that before and after, it makes it allowable to laugh over it in the moment)
-lots of double negatives
-mimicry of accents/voice actors/characters i.e. Bobcat Goldthwait, South Park John Travolta (OMIGAWD!), Mickey Mouse "Aha, you could get killed!" which snowballs into more WILDLY INAPPROPRIATE things to say as the Mouse. There seems to be an importance of saying odd, unexpected things and in certain voices i.e. "you gonna get RAPED!", or yiddish catch phrases
-the dramatic NO!, and talking about our lives in terms of movie narrative: ticking plot clocks, quests, naming ourselves the archetypes i.e. Lindsay=villain, I=sidekick/comic relief
-WE DISCUSS LANGUAGE. We are reflexive of what we say. Mainly I think it's cause Lindsay and I have/are taking classes about language, so it comes up, we are/being taught to think about language.
-when we are together, we don't allow time for silence. SOMEONE is always jumping in, the language pattern is hectic, crazy, jumbled up, we interrupt violently, energy is up, big "eureka!" inside joke creating moments...and I think that's how we are able to come up with things like dropkick housing and Jesus lamb of goats eating our handbaskets to hell.
-use of text messaging/AIM
-Schadenfreude
So, I think I've got a pretty sweet 6-8 pager from this list. But any other observations are appreciated.
And, I leave the three of you with this thought, if you want to add your two cents: think about how language challenges YOUR identity, what people say about you, what we say about eachother, how we talk to each other and talk back in return. How do we DO friendship through our way of speaking? I've got my own ideas, but if you blighters think of something else, I could rock that.
May Jesus Lamb of Goats be with you always, eating the devil's handbaskets and saving us all. AMEN.
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