Like (sic) I say, like I have no idea about. It's probably just part of the fabric of young peoples' speech. Words can also be markers of group membership. In fact you could spend a while arguing that that's all they are.
There are plenty of words in English that have no meaning or are indefinable, like 'well'. Nobody attacks them because people under 20 don't use them. Bare in mind that 'opinion column in SMH' is roughly equivalent to 'some middle aged twat who used to be in radio but now has a career writing reassuring back-page columns for the over 50's to fill up half a page each week and has to think of something provocative to write about every time so they can get paid $1200 and put it towards the private education of their 3 school-age children that they just recently had because they were previously too busy in their career to start a family'.
You know, dads. Just because they write an opinion column doesn't mean their opinion has any basis or merit. I mean I read one recently about the overuse of 'air quotes' for god's sake, which the author proposed was one of the many useless conversational appendages used (only, mind you) by those in marketing and PR. This study into human communication was based, presumably, on him seeing someone do it while chatting in a cafe, while he was trying to write his 1100 words on his Acer laptop over a double latte the day before the article was due. I mean, he called 'aerial punctuation' or something. Pure twattery.
My point is.... well basically (ha) SMH is good for front page news and that's about it.
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Date: 2007-06-03 12:42 am (UTC)There are plenty of words in English that have no meaning or are indefinable, like 'well'. Nobody attacks them because people under 20 don't use them. Bare in mind that 'opinion column in SMH' is roughly equivalent to 'some middle aged twat who used to be in radio but now has a career writing reassuring back-page columns for the over 50's to fill up half a page each week and has to think of something provocative to write about every time so they can get paid $1200 and put it towards the private education of their 3 school-age children that they just recently had because they were previously too busy in their career to start a family'.
You know, dads. Just because they write an opinion column doesn't mean their opinion has any basis or merit. I mean I read one recently about the overuse of 'air quotes' for god's sake, which the author proposed was one of the many useless conversational appendages used (only, mind you) by those in marketing and PR. This study into human communication was based, presumably, on him seeing someone do it while chatting in a cafe, while he was trying to write his 1100 words on his Acer laptop over a double latte the day before the article was due. I mean, he called 'aerial punctuation' or something. Pure twattery.
My point is.... well basically (ha) SMH is good for front page news and that's about it.