That awkward moment when you feel a paradigm shift...

[Bonobo]

and you realize that people need to stop speaking in tired, overused phrases or "memes" they picked up on the internet.

Yes, haters are gonna hate but describing your thoughts in your own words is a total game changer.

It will literally make people's heads explode.

Of course most people lack the time or originality for such an endeavor and won't be able to accomplish it.

Sorry it's true! Don't be mad, bro! it is what it is.

But at the end of the day language is all we have and it reflects our individual thoughts. Let's not become merely extensions of websites, blogs and 4-channel threads, ok?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. ? nt

[DRoseDARs]

25. Basically, language and communication is evolving and he isn't.

As we all know, language NEVER changes, so any deviation is to be shunned because it is scary and confusing and kids these days and GET OFF MY LAWN!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

49. Oh ok! LOL! Thanks nt

[defacto7]

59. What's with all the anger?

It's that ad hominem that gives it away, a sure tell every time. Making stuff up won't fix it.

[Lizzie Poppet]

69. Seemed an utterly obvious parody to me, actually.

[bhikkhu]

2. It reflects our individual thoughts, or it isn't worth much

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I live in a RW area so I have more face-to-face conversations with wingers. So often I hear little more than yesterday's hate radio when it comes to politics, and its a little sad to see people I would otherwise respect play the puppet and recycle the latest argle-blarg, without a new thought to show.

It happens on both sides, of course; I try to keep in mind how disappointing mimicry can be to hear, and I try not to speak unless I am speaking my own words.

on edit, having read the other responses, and having re-read the OP, I think it is odd that something so plainly spoken is so little comprehended here. Its simple - its good to speak your own thoughts, your own words, your own understandings. That requires you to have those things, of course, which requires a certain amount of mental activity rather than simply cut-and-pasting the mental activity of others.
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[JaneyVee]

3. Cool story, bro.

[arely staircase]

4. I know. right

[MindMover]

5. Overused and wornout phrases ... ABSOLUTELY TRUE ...

[cui bono]

6. You took the words right out of my mouth.

I feel you. But tell me something I don't know. You're preaching to the choir.

[CurtEastPoint]

7. 'at the end of the day' makes me crazy

[Scootaloo]

8. To which I say...

[BainsBane]

16. Can the ponies explain the secret code to me?

[Scootaloo]

18. Afraid not.

I have no idea what ingredients went into Bonobo's word salad, there.

(if you meant TL R, it means too long, didn't read)

[L0oniX]

23. Can I join in?

[babylonsister]

9. I really do 'get' what you're saying.

But expediency is the meme of the day; if I see something that reflects what I think, I'll post it.
Plus some of these things are so poignant and well put-together, I would never do it that justice.

Links posted to new news going on does inform people and allows them to express themselves intelligently.

[pinboy3niner]

10. ...

[RiffRandell]

57. Ha!

Looks like she can cook, too!

[Whisp]

11. yassa boss!

[Bonobo]

17. .

[Incitatus]

12. Ain't nobody got time for that.

[OnyxCollie]

13. "It will literally make people's heads explode."

Um...

Ah, never mind.

(Insert Scanners gif here)

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

14. you hit on some really over used phases here

haters are gonna hate
game changer
heads explode
it is what it is
at the end of the day

I'd add
throw under the bus
it doesn't take a rocket scientist
there are many more...

good job! lol

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. So I supposed nobody should use this....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1022162

Or this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4353044

[defacto7]

19. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your point.

The words we use are immensely important to communication. I've been called pedantic and pompous enough times to know how the loss of language skills has effected all of us. If Internet speak is added to a person's language skills, OK; there is a time for all types of expression. But Internet speak has become the language, and it's an extremely limited one. When it's used by people who don't have a reasonable vocabulary it disproportionately limits their ability to communicate and if there is anything that is needed among Internet participants these days, it's better communication.

Limit the vocabulary and you limit communication. Limit communication and you create misunderstanding. Speech in all forms whether classic, urban or slang is great, but being limited to small, tired phrases and overused gut slang is trite let alone mostly meaningless.

Thanks for a great OP!!!

[sufrommich]

20. That's the joke. nt

[defacto7]

24. I see no joke.

If this is a joke, my answer stands as my personal comment all by itself.

I am not joking. But if this communication has been circumvented because of the same trite Internet speech I was talking about....

It makes my point more clear and duly corroborated.

[DRoseDARs]

21. The meme "It is what it is." - John Locke in 1690. Your argument is invalid.

Fail.

[jtuck004]

22. Do you have a link to that?

[RC]

28. Probably not

John Locke took his site down sometime around 1704 or so.

[LiberalAndProud]

26. Literally explode. I gotta see that!

[Control-Z]

27. :o}~

[defacto7]

29. I again say... I can't tell you how much I appreciate your point!

And ... It really helps to understand the uselessness of Internet speech in it's complete and most ignorant form. It is a great example of passive aggressive Internet usage and most inexpressive. There is no joke. It is perfect and I admire your transparency!

[Bonobo]

33. Thanks, you got it.

There was no joke as such. I guess I'm just bemoaning the lazy shorthand that has taken over in modern communications.

[Hissyspit]

30. Under the pony with you!

Um... I think. I'm new at this.

[mimi85]

31. Probably just me...

but why does this thread exist?

[DRoseDARs]

32. Because the clouds aren't going to yell at themselves... nt

[Bonobo]

34. Don't be mad, bro. Do you even lift? nt

[DRoseDARs]

40. I'm not the one who started a thread whining about people using new memes...

...while cluelessly using a 300-yr-old idiom.

Take your lumps, old man. Language and communication evolves. Deal with it.

[Bonobo]

41. Or devolves. nt

[DRoseDARs]

42. This "rocking and rolling" music is degenerating our youth.

And my goodness, Elvis and his hips! Such vulgarity!

[Bonobo]

43. You're a very angry person. Try to lighten up.

I guess it must have seemed like a personal attack on you for some reason.

Maybe you feel yourself ineloquent, unoriginal, stale, trite, little more than a collection of cliches?

[DRoseDARs]

44. The only person angry here is you. At the world. For changing.

I've long been able to communicate well-ahead of my age. I have my first-grade teacher to thank for that. I struggled with reading and after she helped me, I took to books further and further more advanced than those my peers were reading. It spilled over into my writing as I progressed through school. I grew to understand and accept language and communication are not, have never been, nor ever should be rigid and unchanging.

A lesson you stubbornly refuse to accept as life goes on around you.

[Bonobo]

46. No one else thought it was angry. It was actually playful.

The fact that you got so pissed off that you had to say "Take your lumps, old man." showed that you lost your shit for some reason that I can only assume is because you felt targeted due to your own struggles in communicating beyond the level of parroting things you read others say.

Anyway, it was supposed to be a humorous OP and most people found it to be so.

I think it's time for you to take a break and go eat a sandwich or something.

[DRoseDARs]

47. And NOW you've made it a personal attack.

"I can only assume is because you felt targeted due to your own struggles in communicating beyond the level of parroting things you read others say."

You have got to be shitting me. You take my early reading struggles in first grade, decades ago, and twist into only being able to communicate in Internet-speak? You are out-of-line.

[Bonobo]

48. After calling me an old man that yells at clouds and needs to take their lumps, all I can say is

Mess with the bull, get the horns.

Now you can go away, sonny.

You've been learned.

[DRoseDARs]

50. Poor thing had his fee-fees hurt by a silly expression from The Simpsons...

...decides to insult someone for having reading trouble in first grade. Yeah, one of theses things is not like the other.

[Bonobo]

51. But the ticket, take the ride.

There was no reason to be a jerk to me. You had at least 3 posts in this thread where you took potshots at me. Don't feign innocence.

Seriously, are we done now?

[DRoseDARs]

52. You wanted to use memes/idioms/expressions, you got them. Don't act shocked.

You took initial offense over those posts, you yourself claiming this was meant to be humorous. You couldn't take the gentle ribbing, and now you're mewling about it. Yeah, we're done here.

[Bonobo]

54. Three separate asshole "look at me" responses from you.

You got my attention. You couldn't handle it.

Sometimes you start a fight and don't like the outcome.

Too bad.

[DRoseDARs]

55. "Sometimes you start a fight and don't like the outcome." he said without a hint of irony.

eom

[defacto7]

45. This reminds me of that intellectual giant

Sarah Palin who once said, "American is an evolving language".

Let's all learn Palinese but first we have to know if evolve means adding or subtracting.. or maybe it's just breathing into mud spit.

[defacto7]

35. It doesn't.

It's a surreal DU format.

[zeemike]

39. It exists because it am.

And not all people can understand why.

[DeSwiss]

36. K&R

[center]''Changing one's response to the story's narrative,
is how the story is changed, and therein lies our power.''

[/center]

[Blue_Tires]

37. OP's jimmies are rustled

(seriously, good point, though)

[Bonobo]

38. I'm just 25 seconds into that first video and can't stop laughing.

I know brilliance when I see it! Thanks for the GREAT link!

2nd video: You're insane.

[dgauss]

61. Every once in a while...

Something beyond the smart political melee shows up here.

Thank you Blue_Tires for that sublime and transcendent video of a flying lawn mower gracefully superimposed over a universal primate image and all set to heavenly music. I don't know what it means but it seems beautiful.

[arely staircase]

71. holy shit I wish I had some weed

That lawnmower gorilla rhing is bookmarked until I do.

[Skittles]

53. I WILL KICK MEMEING BONOBO ASS

YES INDEED

[polynomial]

56. Here we all have the chance

Here to have a place express our thoughts about the vector of life, about this thing called being, that which we have the right to understand the sense about the Ontology of life. Everyone thinks about the purpose, and service to our selves, and others, to achieve Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Yes a place for good dialog, a Democratic venue that is far superior than anything Plato’s Republic could ever conceive.

Now most people are caught in survival because of the wickedness of a few men. There is a prophecy given by that of the one percenters over four hundred years ago. The most high and mighty with the grace of god king James in his version of the good book chapter six line three; And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Then an extraordinary prophecy at the time to suggest a man should live so long. We all are very sure even king James would marvel at today’s living standards. Able to see how capitalism turned into thousands of kingdoms, islands of independent missions now granted the right to life where the corporation is the same as the citizen they are people.

Talk about awkward, trying to make sense of this new living cell called the corporation that are people or the same as a person. That quantum mass that equates to one is an incredible translation. For everyone has the right to life for the basic cell, but yet obstructed to learn about why we are here. Too big to fail, yes because the fair share is not there, the governance latched into meta-physical files to ogle and google an advantage to power and rule.

Or a massive trumpet sounds you are born to shift for your-self, but lend your life to serve and protect with promised vanishing benefits. The new paradigm is health for everyone makes many wonder why was that idea not there in the first place. Who are these people that make life so miserable. That riddle rhetoric make blame rather than solve, encourage war take tax money for profiteering rather than install peace an infrastructure for the common wealth. We all know who they are the deceivers, dishonest, using trickery, and false witness over and over, Liberally saying they are Conservative.

[defacto7]

58. I pray thee Polynomial

wouldst thou mine own heart be vain and perplexed? Thine own words define the turmoil of retched man in his vile desire for meet and spoil. Oh, why do we toil so for men of high and proud proportion which does find us amongst the vermin and the pricks instead of seeking piety, yay laying prostrate of soul and mind before our political lords adorned their state by a holy and righteous God? Thou gives't me pause for eternal reflection.

[Warren DeMontague]

60. Fuck that. The truly original among us have our very own languages.

KﮭĀʋ₩ﻶﻼŶҖ! Ghh^^m, ֫ݪᴳᴡᴣᵣᴉᴯᵹᵹᵽ. ᵺᵈݦݨᵨᵩῈῈῊᾄὮᴽᴐۿۿۿ.

[randome]

63. "I can type 100 words per minute But it's in my own language." -Mitch Hedberg.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

[struggle4progress]

62. Boom! That's gotta sting!

[gollygee]

65. I wonder how many people's heads literally exploded?

Boom!

[bettyellen]

66. "Don't be mad, bro!" POI?

[In_The_Wind]

67. It is what it is, bro.

[libodem]

68. Been waiting for an excuse to plant this meme

Bwahahahahaaa:

[img][/img]

[Democracyinkind]

70. More of that famous charisma. nt

[anAustralianobserver]

72. I see what you did there, I think. It seems to take some kind of telepathy to determine

how consciously and/or ironically people are using internety memes. This involves self-actualisation in language use and social/emotional intelligence.

(It also involves magnanimous patience with eager pupae breaking out of their android language cocoons.)

[deutsey]

73. Sometimes modern communication and social media remind me of "Newspeak"

which was, as Orwell wrote in 1984, "designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum."

[Bonobo]

74. Fascinating observation...and frightening. nt

[Doctor_J]

75. When all is said and done, it is what it is

and don't forget your apostrophe in every word that ends in an "s"