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Baby Talk Glendora Rider
Today's language among adults, or those who have reached adulthood or talkhood has been reduced to three and four letter words. Among which are:
HOT - Any person of any gender or age who has attractive physical features located generally below the head.
COOL - Any object or person or event that is okay and pleasing.
NEAT - A fading term used by a generation behind to describe HOT or COOL.
B---, S--- or F--- - Expletives not yet acceptable on public TV or followed by a blank in publications but verbally excessively used, especially by drivers in a traffic jam.
SEX - Generic term ascribed to all human activities, whether it is eating a hamburger, buying a car or selecting a prescription or a car. Unlimited explicit application in conversation, music, movies, books, TV, advertising, email, employment, nutrition, politics, health, longevity and even marriage. Recently a couple appeared on the Dr. Phil show, bragging that their family of all ages, grandmother to kids, get together at the table for an evening meal and engage in a clinical vocabulary describing acts and organs as their stimulating dinner discussion each night.. My question: Do they also masticate? Dr. Phil's response, in all honesty, was to retort that when he and his wife touch in passing each other in the hallway in view of his grown up kids, they shudder and respond with another three letter word YUK.
On the same scale, only those whose last names are limited to four letters stand a chance to get elected to be president. The name can be spelled, pronounced, remembered and put on a bumper without any strain of the mentality.
My hope for the nation in all of this is the National Spelling Bee.
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