What I love about the Internets (or one of the things, anyway) is that you can have a blog about pretty much anything you want or about nothing at all.
I stumbled across this blog called Wordemic. The writer mostly talks about words and languages and their meanings and how they can change over time.
I really enjoyed one post in particular on slang . The writer (who strikes me as male, but I couldn’t say why) says a person’s slang is determined by where they learned to speak or where they spent a lot of time. I know that’s true. I have Canadian, North Jersey and probably some North Carolina slang in my own personal dialect. Most people in the States don’t know what a two-four is, but if I said to any of my T-dot friends that I was heading to the LCBO to pick one up, they’d know what I meant. Hell, they’d probably want to come.
What I love about the Internets (or one of the things, anyway) is that you can have a blog about pretty much anything you want or about nothing at all.
I stumbled across this blog called Wordemic. The writer mostly talks about words and languages and their meanings and how they can change over time.
I really enjoyed one post in particular on slang . The writer (who strikes me as male, but I couldn’t say why) says a person’s slang is determined by where they learned to speak or where they spent a lot of time. I know that’s true. I have Canadian, North Jersey and probably some North Carolina slang in my own personal dialect. Most people in the States don’t know what a two-four is, but if I said to any of my T-dot friends that I was heading to the LCBO to pick one up, they’d know what I meant. Hell, they’d probably want to come.
Pretty cool, eh?