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Author: Subject: Intelligence of the population.

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  posted on 24/11/2006 at 01:59 PM
Well i currently work at a theatre, and the other night we had a couple kids come in and for the life of me i couldnt understand a word they were saying. Not that they wern't speaking english. But that they used no proper english. It was that black slang stuff we all tend to learn to hate.

I was thinking to myself, do they know how stupid they sound?. and all i could do was smile and act polite. But they had to top it off. Every thing at the theatre is 3.50$+ (USD)
And there like what can i get with a dollar?

I mean come on. I coulda been like. You can get a 20 min phone call from the payphone over in that corner! or you can get 2 xtra cheeses 50cents ea.

I swear. and im about to head back there in about 2 hours.

 

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  posted on 24/11/2006 at 02:12 PM
black slang stuff?

Depending on where you live, that can be all that the know how to speak... and no offense, dialectically speaking... i does not make them stupid... are they a common site, people like that, in your theatre?

 

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  posted on 24/11/2006 at 04:23 PM
Oh, I would argue that people are getting stupider and I don't think it matters one wit what the color of the demographic is. I mean, seriously, have you tried to listen to teenagers having a conversation anywhere lately. It would be fun if the make up language that everyone is using were even remotely challenging but at the end of the day you realize that you have just interpreted nothing but the most useless drivel. Honest, it was all over the day people started saying "lol" that was a sign of the end times.

 

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  posted on 24/11/2006 at 05:32 PM
LOL is not the end time sign... it is the smileys... and yes, on the whole, people are getting less and less intelligent, but my point is this...

Just because you are raised in the inner city where that is all you hear, does not make you stupid any more than being cockney or raised in newfoundland

 

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  posted on 25/11/2006 at 03:09 AM
What, you don't like smileys? ;P LOL

...oops!

 

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  posted on 25/11/2006 at 07:03 AM
I didn't learn to read and write to communicate with a crude system of pictorgrams

 

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  posted on 25/11/2006 at 07:27 AM
Just for the sake of argument, what is the difference between a and a LOL?
 

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  posted on 25/11/2006 at 07:28 AM
Or between and *winks* - all abbreviations for facial expressions that can't be otherwise communicated by keyboard without lengthy description.
 

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  posted on 25/11/2006 at 07:30 AM
you are right... I will banish those from my writing as well...

 

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  posted on 25/11/2006 at 07:31 AM
"I stand firm in my beliefs.
And I refuse to change them."

Do you really feel like that?

 

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  posted on 25/11/2006 at 07:38 AM
Well, that wasn't much of an argument!

I'm not sure that I agree 100% though - expressions can be so fleeting - a lengthy description, even a full sentence, would often be too ponderous to express facial expression. I mean *winks* expresses the soul of a wink more accurately than "I am now winking at you" ever would.

Part of the dilemma of online conversation - more flexible than "snail mail", more ponderous than voice - it created it's own notation. Definitely irritating when used as a replacement for any meaningful speech, but I think it has its place as as sort of punctuation.

Just my two cents.

 

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  posted on 27/11/2006 at 10:28 AM
quote:
"I stand firm in my beliefs.
And I refuse to change them."

Do you really feel like that?

Yes, I am who I want to be, I'm how I want to be. There for why should I change what I like about myself. If people dont like me for what I am. Then they can just not talk to me.

 

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  posted on 27/11/2006 at 11:28 AM
Because... it implies that you are no longer growing.

Once you stop growing, you start dying... I do not suggest that you change your beliefs because someone demands it... I suggest that sticking by your beliefs wihtout consideration for additional information smacks of fanaticism to a certain extent.

A person who grows, doesn't refuse to change their beliefs, but knows waht they believe and when someone presents an idead that is compatible is willing to adjust to the logical flow of the universe and spirituality...

 

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  posted on 27/11/2006 at 11:41 AM
I notice, however... that you have deigned to not respond to teh reall issue I brought up...

black slang stuff? do you not also have a dialect that you were raised with? I venture too far from home...and I am unable to understand a damn thing people are saying... and they are white people... using taht white slang stuff they use... there is not creole in west virginia... and it has taken me 8 months here to actually understand what teh fuck people are saying...

I have posited that it is not the language that people speak ,but the intelligence behind it... I knwo several inner city dwellers... of white, black, and hispanic (and one chinese) origin... reguardless of the slang, dialectic and base language differences... they are still intelligent people... perhaps it would do you some good to learn their dialect to the point where you can say "I am not trying to be disrespectful by speaking in your dialect, but I want to be able to communicate"

I guess, it seems like ugly american raising his ugly head... "It was that __________ (chinese, cockney, scottish, hindi, cajun) stuff we all tend to learn to hate." On the University of Missouri Campus, there was a person in charge of the computer lab User Consultants. UC is a cushy job, help some people out and do your homework and get paid... Thing is... most foreign students have a better grasp of computers than most americans... (at least at MU) I speak authoratatively, as I was a UC Super for 4 years. Anyway... she came into a lab and three chinese ucs were talking in chinese... according to my friend Xialu... it was mandarin... the lady told them, on the job, you must speak english. Unwittingly she had made a racially charged and, what was percieved to be, racially hateful remark. she lost her job for it. Even though what she aws trying to say was "It is hard for american speakers to approach you when you are speaking another language and customer service suffers because of it... AND americans are paranoid and they will pervice you as talking about tehm in a way that they cannot understand. So... for the sake of customerservice, would you be willing to try to keep communications not in english to the back room when applicable, and if not, make the customer first in all things."

Abstain from teh appearance of evil... it is from teh bible, but it is appropriate...when you appear evil, they tend to clean your clock according to THEIR beliefs...

 

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  posted on 28/11/2006 at 09:57 AM
Now im not saying that a certain race is stupid. No that its self is wrong, but the way they present them selves and talk.
Im more likly to think of some one more intellegent and respectible if they are speaking properly.
And I myself try my hardest to talk properly and not use slang as much as I use too.
My town over the past 5 years has gone from a quiet town to a popular suburb of L.A.

Now about dialect I was raised with. I was raised to talk to whom ever I was adressing and talk with proper english and use as little slang as possible if non at all.
That is the way I was raised.
But it seems latly that most of the people in my town have not been raised this way.

I do understand were you are coming from on the growing part. I don't shut out others beliefs and thoughts. I may not agree with them. But I listen to what they have to say and if it is somthing that I agree with, I will tell them so. If it isn't then we talk about it so we may both understand it as well as possible.
And no Im not racist. Ill agree that even white people are utterly stupid. I do not pin point one race. Saying "black slang" Im saying were it has started. Were instead of saying "the father of my baby" they go "my baby fada" they turn all the words around and shorten them.
Now if there is any thing in here. I have no doubt that it will be brought out.

 

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  posted on 28/11/2006 at 10:02 AM
not pin point one race. Saying "black slang" Im saying were it has started so I believe. Where instead of saying "the father of my baby" they go "my baby fada".

*edited from last post*

 

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  posted on 28/11/2006 at 11:26 AM
but you do not speak proper english in any sense of teh word... you speak american... which, in and of itself, is a bastardization of the queens english... which is a mish mash of words from many many languages, which are bastardizations of latin. thari and many more...

My point is not that you sounded racist, but that language is an evolving thing, and unfortunately... that has evolved into something that you cannot understand... but it is not wrong in any sense of the word. No more than the way you speak is wrong, just different... but it is not english... nor is it technically propper, I am willing to bet...

No one speaks PROPER english... the rules of the language make it impossible as a spoken language, and speaking we leave a lot to inferral and most humans speak without using full sentences all the time. My baby fada... is a different pronunciation of "My babies father" ... where I am from... the people speak very well... but their enunciation and pronunciation are completel different... but it is not wrong... it is swamp talk...

I speak in an overly formal and exceptionally precise manner due to some psychological problems I have... but I would not hve said the father of my baby, but my "baby's father" if I were female...

 

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  posted on 28/11/2006 at 11:17 PM
You kno, Shadows, for someone who sounds so high falootin' and arrogant about your English skills, you are making a lot of grammatical errors in your posts.
The most obvious one is that the proper term is "My baby's daddy," not "My baby's fada." This is "black slang" we are talking about here, not New York burb slang.

 

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  posted on 28/11/2006 at 11:46 PM
I was not going to mention that. I, being dislexic and a speaker of Creole first, have little room to speak on the writing skills of others...

but I would like to point out one GLARING inconsistency.

you were raised to speak without slang... but instead of using the statement "they say"... you use dthe phrase "they go." Very much a slang term

 

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  posted on 28/11/2006 at 11:54 PM
I have to admit if we are going to launch into an argument determining that any single group of people are intelligent or otherwise based entirely on their colloquial quirks then we are going to be really screwed. That's basically the problem with language that becomes regionally distinct is that is is both difficult to judge based on our previous associations and possibly difficult to understand if your ears are unaccustomed. Feral and his move to the hinterlands being a perfect example here.

I do, however, stand by my previous ascertain that LOL is a sign of the end times. I mean that, very specifically when you are having a conversation with someone and they say LOL while laughing, that is very much a sign of the end times. As computer speak I'm not necessarily against a short cut or emoticon being that they can and often do replace similar non-verbal communication cues from a typical conversation. But when they get to the point where people are actually inserting them into live speak, then we are in trouble.

 

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