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RE: The Case Of The Token Stiff, A Blaine Stamren Noir Murder Mystery
Thanks for adding the vocabulary list. It cleared a few things up for me. I was surprised at how many of them I didn't know.
I liked the line you added at the end. That was clever.
Don't worry about spending more time on this. I know you have a lot of interests and that you're spending a lot of time on other stuff. Thanks for writing this! It was a lot of fun to read, and to imagine that it was this token that I have.
Well, good. I'm glad you liked it, and until the real official story comes along, this is the unofficial real story.
In some cases, the way some of those people talked back then was almost like an entirely new language. It's amazing how words can be rearranged or used together in ways you haven't seen before, or taken to mean something totally and completely different.
I know that still happens with modern slang. I just happen to find the 1940s slang more appealing. :)
It really is like another language. It makes sense why Shakespeare isn't so easy to read for most people who are used to modern English. And then there's the slang, like you said. It gets so confusing sometimes. Plus we started using LOLs IKR, and the like. Who can keep up? I miss when words were words, not acronyms.
I guess I'm just old though. Stuck in between the OMGs of the youth of today and the Loony Bins and Yucks of yesteryear. Such is life.
I think it's just a lack of reading in general for a lot of people. It's easier for me to understand words and context if I'm reading it than it is through the course of a conversation. I'm able to re-read the words and the paragraph, whereas if it's happening on television or in a group, it's tough to just go and rewind it two or three times so I get it.
I keep telling people English is devolving. Soon, we won't talk to each other at all but will communicate through a series of grunts and pointless hand gestures. And thus, our journey around the evolutionary wheel will be complete.
But we're enlightened man!
Oh, acronyms. We've got to love acronyms, because YOLO IMHO. :)
I was able to get most of them through the context. I remember a class in school where we were given words we likely wouldn't know so we could practice deducing the meaning from the context. It was actually really helpful.
Yep, that's basically where we're headed. The state of the English language is in peril. Especially when teenage popstars on Twitter are the ones who are creating the way words are used for a majority of the population... or at least the future generations.
OMG BBQ!