I finally came out of my mushroom cave only to find they did it again. They changed the language on me. I just want to know who is the "they" who has such power.I was feeling pretty good about my language progress. I lost my Nort Dakota brogue and my Fargoism's "squarsh and warsh."
Thirty years ago I learned to say "I dig it" if I really liked something. (no actual labor involved). I learned that "cool" could be anything that was pleasing BUT then in a few years, the things that were once "cool" became "hot". If that wasn't confusing enough, now everything "rocks." Holy Crap. What does that mean? Hard as stone? It bends back and forth as a rocking horse??? You like it? You don't like it?
A couple years ago "melt-down" threw me.
Someone said, "She had a melt-down. "
I'm thinking, I'm not getting tripped up by that. It means all her candles burned. But I asked anyway, "What's melt-down?"
You know, "went crazy."
"Oh."
On Bill O'Reilly's news he was talking to the blond who looks and sounds like Megen Kelly. (They all look alike and I don't know her name.). As she was talking to Bill, she called him Jack. He bristled and said, "You're talking to Bill."
She replied, "All the kids call everyone Jack, now."
Bill at first looked nonplussed, then down right annoyed. It kinda became a thing between them. He ended that segment of the program with "This is Jack." It was not in a complying ending but more as mocking someone too old to stoop to kid's lingo.
Gotta run. The evening rocks. (Whatever that means?)
