Most linguists spend their time thinking about languages, their structures, rules and the way they’ve both come to be and will evolve in the future. They think about what languages say about the various cultures they represent, the way that structure shapes communication and vice versa. What they don’t spend enough time thinking about in your opinion is how various pop culture terms should be used in casual conversation.
That’s why today you’re going to begin a lengthy series of papers about various American cultural slang words made up of actual words that mean shit completely unrelated to their contemporary meaning. You’ll begin with a fifty six page dissertation on the term “party-down” which has absolutely no discussion of or even reference to the possible origins of the term. It’ll just be fifty-five pages of you defining and at times proscribing proper usage of the term in contemporary society.
When you’re finished academia will stand up and clap. You’ll have attempted to define the indefinable and douche bags from private school will quote your paper for years to come (in partiality of course) whenever they’re forced to say something possibly interesting at parties. We’d facetiously say that you should be ashamed of yourself but you’d probably miss the joke anyhow.
Congratulations on Establishing the Proper Use of the Term Party Down!
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