Re: OT: Californian and Teen Speak

On 4/14/05, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

>
> It gave me the _kreaks, errrm, creeps when an American teenager here
> in Germany did this on the train just a few seats away from where I
> was.  Funny enough, she was amoung a group of four people, but it was
> only her who did the _kreak.  All of them did the 'i was like' stuff.
The creak is a typical thing to immitate when you're doing the "whiny
Californian teenager".


> >...
> > Funniest thing was a guy in one of my classes who had a very strong
> > "surfer" accent who would pronounce Spanish that way.
>
> HAHA! :-)
Oh it was hilarious and painful at the same time.

> A did some accent stuff for Tyl Sjok.  Especially grammar changes
> occur with teenage language.  It's not elaborated, but one thing was
> that teenagers tend to use more disambiguation particles, which, in
> the eyes of older people, breaks the purity of the ideal, even
> philosophical ambiguity of the language.
I haven't gotten far enough in Ayhan to determine what teens there
would do exactly, but one thing that they'd most likely drop the
animacy/inanimacy - natural/unnaturalness affixes from the verb.

--
They'll have a big parade for every day that you stay clean
But when the trumpets fade, you'll go under like a submarine
And you won't see it coming,  no you won't see it coming

You could have it made up there in San Rafael
But baby I'm afraid i'll never see you well
because i've seen the tally
you're just going through the motions, baby