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Yes, finally many of the word's I've been using as slang are now in a
"dictionary" and are
henceforth "real" words. Chilaxin (which I first
heard from a friend of mine who is one of the funniest people I've ever heard)
is now a glorified word since this dictionary takes words that people have made
up and assigns definitions and parts of speech to them. It's essentially a
create your own dictionary type of thing of made up words. And then this all
boils down to what is a "legal" word? How to words become "real" words in the
first place? I make up words all the time, but what makes them official ones
that won't get me F's on English papers? That is the real question. The
discovery of this dictionary has made me lipadoodly.
Fox (sworn enemy of Time Warner which owns Cartoon Network) has a piece about
Cartoon Network refusing to air
Speedy Gonzales cartoons. They see Speedy as portraying an offensive ethnic
sterotype of Mexicans, and since kids are impressionable people, they won't air
it. I watched a fair amount of Speedy Gonzales when I was a kid on Nick (which
on a totally different tangent here, is it just me or does Nick seem a whole
lot worse now than it did when I was a kid? What the heck is this the Nick Cannon
crap? Talk about portraying racial sterotypes) and I don't think I was harmed by
it, it was just cartoon fun. Also interesting to note that Cartoon Network has
exclusive rights to the cartoon, so they can do whatever they want with it, even
if it means that no one can see it.
Pizza good. Sleep good. Life good :)
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