tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507136945842934293.post6046846474407356782..comments2023-09-21T06:15:03.099-07:00Comments on Conjugate Visits: Happy Holidays and SuchJune Casagrandehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00363096837053080969noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507136945842934293.post-84487767998124234552009-01-05T18:49:00.000-08:002009-01-05T18:49:00.000-08:00I LOVE using hiphop (and early-/pre-hiphop) lingo ...I LOVE using hiphop (and early-/pre-hiphop) lingo in my normal tone of voice. One of the biggest laughs I ever got from friends was the time a group of people were discussing something controversial (I forget what) and one of the people turned to me for my opinion, evoking only my response of, "Hey, I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut."June Casagrandehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00363096837053080969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507136945842934293.post-62757914141510806102009-01-05T13:28:00.000-08:002009-01-05T13:28:00.000-08:00I use all sorts of goofy little expressions like t...I use all sorts of goofy little expressions like this more-or-less without shame. In fact, I feel like I semi-unconsciously try to use all of them: and whatnot . . . and such . . . and the like . . . and stuff . . . and s*** . . . and things . . . and all that . . . and this and that, etc. Indeed, I think it's a reaction to having pretentiously overused et cetera (and--correctly, I hope--et al.) in my youth.<BR/><BR/>Not that that's the only classification of expressions whose silly little colloquialisms I like (I believe that that sentence makes sense even though it looks like a redundancy and might surely have been better phrased). Maybe too it's compensation for being occasionally obnoxiously sesquipedalian, yaknow, and such. <BR/><BR/>On the other point, well, it's just way too much fun for pale folk like us to pretend to be "urban." Word. Yeah, it's even goofier when it's retro urban.<BR/><BR/>So, um, yeah, I didn't really have much to say, but I kept leaving this blog marked unread in my RSS reader because I wanted to say <I>something</I>. And every time I came back to it, your final comment made me laugh.Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05550742712966484303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507136945842934293.post-29150667603120057502008-12-26T09:29:00.000-08:002008-12-26T09:29:00.000-08:00The first time I really noticed "how I roll" was w...The first time I really noticed "how I roll" was when Rob Corddry, then a correspondent on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show," said that about a Hummer SUV. It wasn't the first time I heard it, but it was the first time I noticed it.<BR/><BR/>I don't know its origin, but I assume it's one of those hip hop expressions that made it into the popular lexicon via middle-aged white people who know they sound funny when they use it.<BR/><BR/>Then again, I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut, foshizzle.June Casagrandehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00363096837053080969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507136945842934293.post-73013565035857881722008-12-26T06:13:00.000-08:002008-12-26T06:13:00.000-08:00I have a friend who says "and whatnot" all the tim...I have a friend who says "and whatnot" all the time. So if you get bored, you can always switch to that.<BR/><BR/>I have also noticed that lately everyone is saying:<BR/><BR/>That's just how I roll.<BR/>I don't roll like that.<BR/><BR/>Where did this start?Dihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04653282356172573799noreply@blogger.com