Have you noticed f.ds people incorporating some of your speech mannerisms to their own posts? Does that bother you / amuse you / leave you completely indifferent?
I don't really notice; what I say just feels normal to me. "Man" is singled out in the linked thread and well I didn't come up with that you know. Or saying "you know" at the end of a sentence. The semicolons might be me. I picked up some surfer slang at some point; really what language doesn't benefit from casual honorifics. I probably lean on 2nd person more than most people; I also like choose-your-own-adventures and the Gene Wolfe story The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories. I might type more conversationally than most people. I edit. Anyway no.
I had hoped it would please you, to hear this.
Well it's nice to be a mover and shaker, a dreamer of dreams. From my perspective though, someone else was saying "man" and I picked it up from them. You're all copying whoever that was. I did get to pick a package; when I started saying "dude" I didn't also pick up "righteous."
In the past I have had more unusual language. There was a period where I thought it was funny to switch the order of words in certain cases - "youngness is the night's" rather than "the night is young." I said "yorpness" in place of conversational nothings - "Hi, how are you?" "Yorpness." That somehow caught on with one other guy. There was no question that he was copying someone else, I was having an effect there. In place of "how are you" these days I say "how's every little thing." I feel like it suggests that I actually care, due to not being the usual idiom; the same way that Sarah Silverman saying "what the cock is that shit" is more vulgar than "what the fuck is that shit." I got "how's every little thing" from Bugs Bunny.
Instead of "fine" or whatever I used to make up surreal answers to "how are you," then reuse the best ones. "I feel like one of a set of identical triplets, after the other two commit suicide." "You know that sudden destructive change in perspective that sometimes occurs when you're looking at a drawing of a vase, and it transforms itself into the silhouettes of two hideous heads? I feel like that." Some of them are long, a little story. After one of those the punch line is, "and how are you?"
The wiki says I'm known for my unique language and well, it's great that sometimes in life you can distinguish yourself effortlessly. I mean what am I saying, sometimes I labor over posts, but stuff like "I mean what am I saying" just comes out on the first try. I do like to think of myself as a writer; I've written 3.8 screenplays, some songs, and a short story for each song title on Bee Thousand. And hey all those blurbs.
