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| Conveniently located directly above the center of the Earth  |
the immortal lyrics from Kookie's song career: "I've got smog in my noggin Ever since you made the scene" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gDT2Xk5-Oo Almost seems contrived, eh? Unlike our Modern Era. Ah yes.... | |||
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II was born in early 1970, and as a 52 year old understood what he was saying. Still an 80's kid so our slang was more rad! | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
I saw this fascinating thread on Quora about language and how that might go:
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
Yes you are right, but I think “fitting to” or “fitting’ to” is itself a corruption of “fixing to”. I heard lots of guys I served with in the Army who were from the South use that phrase “fitting’ to” which then evolved into “finna”. | |||
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Spread the Disease |
A rare recording of white jive. Fascinating. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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Shakespeare would not have understood Chaucer’s English, and they were only separated by 100 years or so. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
A bit more than that... More like 200 years. Chaucer: ~1340-1400. Canterbury Tales was written ~1390. Shakespeare: 1564-1616. His works were written starting in ~1590. But yes, they used two different forms of English. Chaucer wrote in Middle English. Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English. There were massive changes in the English language during the century or so from roughly 1470-1580. | |||
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Most folks in the 1950s didn’t actually talk like that. Being quirky and hip and dislodged from the stuffy old establishment was as important to the youth then as it is now. | |||
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I Deal In Lead |
I speak white jive.  | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Word has it that Vtail did. Shaboom. | |||
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| W07VH5 |
 That’s one crazy and kicked-up cat, man. We’re talking wild, baby. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
And so it goes... "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| Master of one hand pistol shooting  |
I am 72.5. I would have to put my hearing aids in to catch what they said SIGnature NRA Benefactor CMP Pistol Distinguished | |||
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I'm 68 and understood it all. Used to watch the show. Don't recall hearing this Q&A in my schoolyard, though. Funny, come to think of it; I don't hear the term "schoolyard" much anymore, along with the things it used to suggest. | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
It would still be difficult. I had mine in, I still had to listen a couple times, and I still didn't catch 100% of it. Music, noise, talking quickly... Hearing aids can do only so much. Particularly since I haven't heard that kind of talk in a long, long time  "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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as did I , and I'm a 63 model year https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Slanguage is constantly evolving. | |||
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