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Young Speak
Folder:
A New View .
Babies need a language
of their own to communicate
their pre-hormonal experiences
and feelings between each other.
We have forgotten what we
knew then, we have gone through
to a mostly standardized pattern.
Mellow, mellow,
mellow.
We had jive talk, what we named
the smooth and jazzy to express
generational need for a new common
tongue in a world not yet checked out.
.
Texting and blogging creates a new
shorthand for speaking; a new form
of being hip has emerged, cool as
cats, cool as chicks and out of sight,
ma man!
.
I get that tower of babel feeling
and wonder how that goes over in
the workplace. I’m hip to the jams,
cool as ice, can reet repeat
with the best of them, but these:
:D and 3> and :) I glimpse as code
for something very copesthetic,
daddy-o.
.
Lady A
02-07-13
6:02p
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