Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Evolving Language

So I was getting my schadenfreude on by watching clips of people hurting themselves, and I came upon this mediocre video of a kid failing at a bike jump:
http://www.break.com/index/bmx-kid-faceplants-hard-on-board.html

Now, the injury was nothing amazing, but what was amazing is when the youthz in the video suddenly switch from American English into Bad French, thus introducing me to the Chiaque dialect of backwoods Canada.  Super cool.

This reminds me of the awesome barrio Spanglish the kids in Houston excelled at.  My senior year homeroom class was with a couple of  Martinez's that loved to switch at random between Redneck English, Spanglish, and Mexican Spanish.  It was how I prepared my mind for the day by trying to guess the rest of their conversation through context.

I can't wait for a future when we're all the same shade of brown, and we all speak in a language derived from pidgin English mixed with techno-jargon.  Destroy 2000 years of culture.

Which reminds me of a really fucking bad movie, Idiocracy, that I wasn't able to watch all the way through because it was written by someone who was obviously a pussy who was bullied in high school, and all I could think was, "Get over it, already!"   But regardless of the inane plot of stupidity ruling the world (wait, that's happening now!) the concept of everyone speaking the same dialect of broken English consisting of slang words from youth subcultures was excellent.

--
Dave Maez
Chicano like Ritchie Valenz - I don't speak a lick of Spanish, but I know all the words to "La Bamba."

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