Blogging is something I’ve been doing since my freshman year of 2003, but that blog is for pleasure alone. Blogging is something many people have been doing since the mid 90s and a modern television series entitled Californication pokes fun at bloggers and puts into question their choice of diction.
Californication is about an author named Hank Moody who juggles his “drug and sex addictions while raising a daughter and trying to win back the love of his life.” He goes on to blog for Hell-A magazine to make money but protests the idea of blogging from the beginning.
In one scene between the main character (Hank) and another woman this is said:
Woman: "LOL"
Hank [curious and baffled at what he just heard]: "What was that? What did you just say? Just then? LOL...laugh out loud...that's part of your lexacom?...really? LOL."
Woman: "Shouldn't it be part of yours too? [pause]. You are writing for cyberspace."
Hank [sighs and says sarcastically]: "Oh and there goes my boner."
Hank: "Wave bye bye."
Woman: "What is your issue with LOL?"
Hank: "Ah..I don't have an issue unless you count the fact that every time you say it you're contributing to the death of the English language."
Ironically or perhaps not, Californication has it’s own blog.
Well, bloggers? What are your thoughts on this? Will blogging with all of its internet shorthand be the public’s voice to a brighter tomorrow or will blogging inevitably murder any authors’ chances to become part of a list of famous novels such as MacBeth, To Kill A Mockingbird, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, and Of Mice and Men.
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first off, i just wanted to say great title, because when i first looked at it, i thought of the song, which got my attention. The book sounds really interesting and i might have to check it out. I totally agree with hank though when he says every time we say LOL or IDK we are contributing to the death of the english language. I remember in high school my teachers would tell us that we wernt allowed to use those in our papers, and it was hard for me to imagine someone using that in an graded essay, but i guess thats how big the whole trend has gotten
ReplyDeleteI think the whole "internet lingo" our modern generation is defintely a hoot for any past one's. And if a strange way you have to think to yourself are we destroying the english language as much as were contributing to it? Hummmm. I mean you think words like swell and tubular weren't looked upon as direct insults to the english language at one point either? Think again! Although I could not agree more whole-heartedly that there is indeed and "time" and "place" to get "jiggy" with the english language, we could still cool down with the cynicism, Hank!
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