European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse To come torn two sources big groups in constant Contact with larger society teen agers Lor instance and Small lightly knit groups so engrossed in their own world and removed from society that they evolve an exons Rio highly personal and vivid vocabulary groups such As computer fanatics a Flower s experience Ono Factor in whether the language of such pioneering groups is Likely to Cross ovum to the mainstream is its usefulness thus when the computer began to transform the culture in the late 1970s and 80s. Words once spoken Only by gear croaks and digit Heads were increasingly Hoard in everyday parlance in fact some have pointed out that computer language is so ingrained in late bus conversations that its users May not even to aware of its origins. Corporate Slang has also been shaped by the growing numbers of Lake overs mergers and acquisitions in the last few years in the View of Kalhleen Dean author of Wall sired Slang High steppers fallen Angels & lollipops the body of hostile take Over Slang that s Como about in the last 15 years is particularly Lull of recurring metaphors Tor violence Odean said these players Are Macho Guys and they make themselves out As even More Macho. There s an old Stock Market proverb buy when the blood is running in the Streel which is sort of the Way Thoy look at it like life and Odean found that much Market Slang such As brokers nicknames Lor various stocks and Bonds circulates chiefly within the trading Community. But she s noticed that Soma of the the terms associated with take overs raiders who try to buy companies against Tho will of management White knights congenial buyers sought As alternates to raiders and Grcen Nail Tho process of buying the Raider of Are extensively used As insider shoptalk and by the Public As Well. When there s a truly dramatic movement in the Slock Market language is minded and circulated literally overnight. Odean said Oling last fall s Black monday As a piece of Slang in wide use the Day after the Stock Market crash on oct. 19. In Iho world of body building which receives relatively Little Media coverage Only a Lew terms have made in to Iho vocabularies of outsiders according to writer body builder Teagan Clive. Author of the self published Book workout words such As buffed muscular or Bruiser Strong person can now be heard at most any gym or health club thus they re now shunned by the hippest body builders in favor of More specific descriptions she said. Clive who hexed her Muscles for David Lee role s California girls music video reports that Well developed Muscles especially the triceps arc referred to As shredded while Well defined pectoral Muscles or pecs Are known As biscuits of shredded shredded Call Muscles Are body builders with prominent veins arc known As Road maps and if their skin is particularly dehydrated it s onion skin she said. We have terms for everything Clivi said. Body builders who Tare always on Parade Are called floats and when the per Orbital at disappears under your eyes and he skin touches the Bone and Black half circles appear under your eyes we oven have a Lerm Lor that cadaver it s a complimentary term to signify that body fat in the facial area has dissipated " Many Belcon Slang is irrepressible and the Wise will learn to understand it now so i Hoy can Converse fluently today in tomorrow s cliches Lenry or one is particularly convinced Hal cyberpunk which he defines As the language of anarchists and free agents who use High tech or fun personal growth or whimsy is like to become Standard English within 10 years. He is serious and expects cyberpunk terms such As pod corporate clones in thought behaviour and appearance and Lechno trash a technically Brilliant but unpleasant individual who acts like a social idiot to catch on. I get a lot of cyberpunk from computer bulletin boards. And i have friends who Send me Iran scripts of computer conversations the cyberpunk have Between each other Leary said. They think Hal intelligent life is moving from the body into these hyperspace. Super information systems. Their Basic line is that in you want to be immortal digitize everything. Within Lour or live years most intelligent people will be digitizing almost everything they do that s Worth come again How Al say what Erma Bombeck the world of body building has its own language. Marriages were usually arranged by the parents often for Money. Although a free woman could veto any arrangement Here was a catch in she married without the consent of her parents her husband was declared outside the Law outlaw and thus became open season for any of Iho Bride s relatives who decided it was time Lor her to become a widow. Divorce was rather Tricky too. A Man could divorce his Wile but if the reason was l Good to stood the risk of being killed by his we s family. Divorce was justifiable however if a spouse was caught wearing the clothing of the opposite sex dealing with adultery was easier than with divorce. If a Man caught his wife with another Ryan. He could kill the intruder without bringing Down the Wrath of the Lover s family. The female member of a modern Dink household no doubt strives Lor stability in her marriage despite double workloads and Little Lime Lor intimacy a Viking Wile also worked bul she had no qualms about setting her husband and other men lighting each other Lor her Alle Lions. Viking women were valuable advisers to their husbands especially in business affairs and they obtained financial benefits Over Lime one thud of her husband s wealth immediately increasing to one Hall after 20 years of marriage. The Viking Dink couple did have certain things in common. They were great lovers of singing and both male and female enjoyed playing musical instruments especially the Harp a King Gunnar purportedly could play the Harp with his toes. It is not known How adept his Wile was on the strings virtual pussycats at Home. Viking men walked big once they Lell their houses and congregated among themselves a custom carried on today in bars and other watering holes one Viking poem about Odin King of the gods gives an idea of what men thought of their women. At evening the Day is to be praised a sword after it is tested a woman after she is Viking men did not mince their words. Today s men caught up in a Dink relationship no doubt look Kinder upon their counterparts than the dinks of old. For while divorces rarely end m minder costly lawsuits with potentially diminished lifestyles encourage the male to make the marriage work. Otherwise winding up a single income no kids male Means winding up in the sink. Mark Al. To Roelz is a Chicago based communications consultant and historian officials of the Mats America pageant chickened out. They had their Chance to bring the pageant Inlo the 2tsl Century sans bathing suits and they blew it. They continued to cultivate a entire generation of Young Giris who think they have to Parade in front of the registrar s office in a bathing suit and live Lnch heels to qualify Tor student Aid. Hey i be got nothing against bathing suits. But for years the woman who enter the Competition have son Oul messages of contradiction that say. We re not bimbos. Just because wit re pretty does t mean we Aren t talented or smart enough to Cut up our own meal. We want to be taken if the contestants really wanted to be taken seriously they would compete like the test of us. With their dairies on. Do entrants in the Phi Bury bake Oft worry about cellulite what i m saying la if you have brains you Don t have to Holden your stomach Lor three hours at a Lime. Frankly the Competition la to the same audience it played to 67 years ago or even live years ago. I d like to think we be come some distance since comedian Fannie Flagg who was miss Alabama said i d have won but t sat on a Wicker chair in the bathing suit Little isolated pulls of decorum and modesty Are blowing across the land like a fresh Breeze just before the Snow files. Playboy clubs closed their doors this year ending an Era. Calvin Klein s advertising approach has gone. -. Irom lost year s nude obscure parts of the body that you re afraid to identify to Brace yourselves a lamely fully clothed 1 t know what they in Belling. /. A and just recently the very mention that sen Dan Quayle a great for the Republican ticket because he looked like Robert Bedford and would get the women s Voie no uni chorus of groans irom woman All Over the country. Women have gone to a lot of double to distance themselves from the doll on the bed image. We be had a lifetime of whistles the same ones used to summon dogs that Ere into the garbage. We be been subjected. Loan army of Macho neanderthals we have never met who yell to us on crowded streets their Plaris for us when we re alone. We be endured unsolicited pinches in crowded lobbies and at the Bottom of swimming pools. What feminists Are talking about actually is the same thing miss America contestants Are talking about. There s More to us than watching us breathe. Saturday october 1,1988 the stars and stripes Page 17
