Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The Language of the Dude

The demonic language or what Professor Sexson calls "dude language" is far more prevalent in our culture than the high brow language that we find in Finnegans Wake. It is hard sometime to even get the "dude speakers" hear you as you speak with big vocabulary words. Intrigued by this I decided to listen in on some of the residents in Roskie Hall while they were playing the all popular COD-MW II (Call of Duty-Modern Warfare II). As I was walking down the hall toward their rooms I heard two friends, we'll call them "Forrest" and "Ryan" having a brief conversation:
Forrest: Ahhh, wha'ed you do that for man, I'm on your freaking team.
Ryan: Sorry brother, my bad couldn't see you.
Forrest: Douche, hey watch behind you
(sounds of rapid fire)
Ryan: Got the bastard, thanks for the heads up man
Forrest: Man I've got so much homework
Ryan: F*** it, you can do it tomorrow
(sounds of rapid fire)
Ryan: F my life, this game f***ing sucks man
Forrest: That douche is totally just squat killing (not totally sure on this one)
(knock on the door from me)(more rapid fire)
Ryan: Yeah
Me: Hey guys could you keep it down a little bit it's quite hours
Forrest: Oh yea sorry dude we'll shut the door

It makes me wonder am I really a "dude" but beyond that what would Joyce think (WWJT)?
I think he would laugh and go back to cackling evilly over Finnegans Wake (which is the laughter I imagined when Dr. Sexson said he laughed as he wrote it.

1 comment:

  1. i disagree, i don't think you should "confuse" your own confusion and insecurities by calling other members of the class elitists and obnoxious. just because you are confused (as are others in the class), does no make the people that are apparently not confused elitists. Maybe we both should appreciate that there are people in the class who care deeply enough to give their own opinion and interesting discoveries. Because what else is a class discussion without other views, inputs and findings. And in the end there are people who will feel insecure about who they are and what they say, and have their own confusions, such as you and I. But there are opinions that are stated in class that we (you and I and everyone else) need to recognize value in and see there is more to every sentence than just the words being typed. Open up, let it go, feel free, and be yourself while accepting others for who they are even if they don't fit the mold you want them to fit.

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