I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
oh my god the actual article is somehow amusing to me too
I don't usually give a shit about the kudos season so I don't tend to read this stuff but the way this is written hammers home how insular Hollywood is
This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen in my 20 1/2 years as a human on this planet.
"crix"
I just
I want to cry.
This is not organic slang, this is the "we're gonna make a SECRET CODE LANGUAGE" mentality that like 4th graders have, but in adult men who should know better.
This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen in my 20 1/2 years as a human on this planet.
"crix"
I just
I want to cry.
This is not organic slang, this is the "we're gonna make a SECRET CODE LANGUAGE" mentality that like 4th graders have, but in adult men who should know better.
Mouse (also Mouse House) — the Walt Disney Co. or any division thereof, a reference to the company’s most famous animated character, Mickey Mouse; “The Mouse’s music division is reuniting with talent manager Alan Smithee on a joint-venture label.”
You know i often got the feeling, when seeing articles about showbiz, that the articles were somehow not written 'for me', like they were intended to go above my head.
i thought i was being silly, but this slanguage page reads like a confirmation of that.
Other eastcoasters specifically tend to resent New York because there's a lot more to this part of the country but no one cares about it. Even Philadelphia gets the short end of the stick in comparison, much less cities that aren't as widely known, like say, Baltimore.
Yes, I'm speaking only for fellow northeasterners.
On the west coast you have either LA or San Francisco (which are indistinguishable in most peoples' eyes), down south you have Dallas, and very rarely New Orleans.
It's something that's irritated me a lot, because i was always like, 'Do you not know what DJ means?' i thought people were writing it out because they didn't know the acronym, or because they were too 'sophisticated' to use acronyms.
But if it's part of another dialect then i guess i shouldn't object.
It's something that's irritated me a lot, because i was always like, 'Do you not know what DJ means?' i thought people were writing it out because they didn't know the acronym, or because they were too 'sophisticated' to use acronyms.
But if it's part of another dialect then i guess i shouldn't object.
There's nothing to apologize for, it's just another reason to add to the "Why Variety is Bullshit" list.
Yeah my assumption is that when the term was brought over from America people didn't realize it was an acronym so just wrote it out as "deejay". Nowadays, that generally refers to reggae vocalists (a role we'd call "MC" in hip-hop).
Most of the times i've seen it has been in British or American writing, and the surrounding dialect has not been Jamaican... that's when it's irritated me. 'Emcee' even more so, since 'Master of Ceremonies' is a much older expression.
i didn't know that reggae vocalists were called deejays.
I was considering giving either Tiny or the Radio a slanguage-based method of speech in that Tiny and Big fanfic I was thinking about writing but then I figured it would seem like I'd be shoehorning it in for quirkiness's sake so I decided against it.
(I might come back to the idea for something else later on, though. It just seems like the perfect dialect for a character who wants to sound cool but doesn't pull it off, just like Variety itself.)
also, fun fact: Passion Pit (that one band with the dude with the high voice) named themselves after the slanguage term passion pit (that being a drive-in theater, supposedly a place where teenage couples made out passionately in their heyday).
Probably the best thing to come out of the slanguage phenomenon, right there.
(Except, of course, for the fact that Adventure Time pulls its quirky slang off because it fits the context. I don't know if any other show could have given us shmowzow, honestly.)
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i thought i was being silly, but this slanguage page reads like a confirmation of that.
As i'm not American, this probably doesn't mean much, though.
So I guess there's some truth in that
And they actually seem to be proud of this.
It's something that's irritated me a lot, because i was always like, 'Do you not know what DJ means?' i thought people were writing it out because they didn't know the acronym, or because they were too 'sophisticated' to use acronyms.
But if it's part of another dialect then i guess i shouldn't object.
i didn't know that reggae vocalists were called deejays.
(I might come back to the idea for something else later on, though. It just seems like the perfect dialect for a character who wants to sound cool but doesn't pull it off, just like Variety itself.)
Probably the best thing to come out of the slanguage phenomenon, right there.
I like to think of it as the old, crusty precursor to the methods of speech seen in Adventure Time, though that's probably just me.