You know - I feel like posting but I really can't say what I'm feeling which makes posting seem irrelevant! So decided this post would be about language - specifically words which we use or make up in our daily lives which so completely do not make sense. The latest in this long line is 'Gamous' - B & I were talking about people who are monogamous/polygamous and she decided I should not talk since I need to get 'gamous' first!! Now put in context, you get the connotation - however I forgot the context and told friend whilst talking about a boy that I wanted to get gamous with him - Friend is like what!!!??? so explained what I meant and she got it [I think]! A word she uses is coolio - which according to her means extremely cool - to me it is a used to be rapper!! Firm where I work has boy who calls all females chicklit - to me & C, that's literature written by a female for a female!! My mother tells me to 'shut my face' all the time - I mean did I skip the window pane part of anatomy?? I actually had a whole list of stuff that we do or say that really means nothing - classic example - take a chill pill or my personal bugbear - chillax - I mean really what does That mean?? no matter how many times people explain to me it's a combination of chill and relax - I just don't get the coolness quotient in that verb!! While I was typing this, I was simultaneously doing a quiz on facebook [I'm kinda figuring it out slowly] and the question was which hip hop word was added to the Merriam Webster dictionary - my choices (a) fo'wizzle (b) hyphy (c) crunk (d) don't remember.....the answer Crunk - what could that mean?? really please let me know if you know!! Beyonce got the word "bootylicious" added to the dictionary as well but that one is easy to understand.....unlike the latest rapper on the block T-Pain who will buy you a 'drank' - now is this called that (a) because he drank it (b) he pays for it after you drank it (c) is it 2/3/x numbers of drinks put together so that you drank and then you become a skank!! It's quite a nice song though tho the video is really at a different pace than the song in my opinion and I swear in some places he looks like he is doing the bhangra!! I think another way we develop words is either we anglicise hindi or we indianise english - Maro'ing' line!! oh! since I'm asking for explanations - please tell me how did the word 'batting' come to mean flirting wit/hitting on ppl - I'm still not clear as to the exact meaning also!! If I continue in this vein, I will be asking for reasons till kingdom come so I'm just going to take my sleepy pills and say good night!!
I also read this random piece of information that english has a neuter gender since for some 300 odd years French was the official language of England so it was kept alive by the common people who just decided to do away with complicated tenses and genders! coolio!!
