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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Girl Talk is the Future of English

The American teenage girl is the most powerful influence on the English language around the worls ... Young women in Britain as well as North Amreica are years ahead of young men in adopting new words... style of speech is characterised by inserting drawled words wuch as "like" and "so" to add emphasis to a sentence, which rises to a pitch at the end.

American word of the year: "truthiness" - the quality of stating concepts one wisjes or believes to be true.
most useful word of the year: "podcast" - a web feed of audio or video files downloaded from the internet. [note get a Ricky Gervais pdcast here]
Others: "Muffin top" - a bulge of flesh over low-cut jeans; "whale tail" - the appearance of a thong above the waistband; and [personal fav] "lollipopalooza" - a gathering of attractive young men, otherwise known as lollipops