Truth: Cliche Wordsmithing
At what point does street vernacular become mainstream? Or at what point does something mainstream, influenced by the media become street vernacular? Who said these things and how did they become everyday things you hear?
Hope it Rocks OUT
Word
Word to your mother
Represent
On the flip side
Working it
Go Girl
Jonesin
Givin it
Fiddy
Let's get stupid
Chillin in the D
Showin some love
This all bothers me for some reason. Perhaps because it's not proper English? Maybe. I use slang often when I speak, even when I write. I'm not opposed to slang, but not when it replaces proper usage of words it's just wrong. I think that's just my style to use slang when appropriate, but never as a replacement. Perhaps the phrases above are just too MTVish..hip hop or gangsta for me to appreciate or embrace them. But that's ok, I don't want to deal with those words. Often I won't even deal with people who use those words.
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