I ain’t seen it, but I commend your kids for so wonderfully demonstrating the ability of the human brain to generalize and apply grammatical rules regularly, and in the process create a perfectly useful new verb. I shall have to find a way to work it into my speech, to help popularize it.
*Look at that teen girl trying to speak
‘I go, I go, I go…’
Her grasp of grammar’s very weak
‘I’m all like, "Yah! :rolleyes: " all day!’
Talkin’ like ‘Hey, now!’ (‘Hey, now!’) ‘Hey, now!’ (‘Hey, now!’)
‘I go, I go, “No way!”’
‘Speaking correctly is so lame!’
‘I’m all like, "Yah! :rolleyes: " all day!’
My EO (estranged other) uses “I seen”, “ain’t” and a host of other expressions of the kind. Gives me a serious eye twitch.
Worse, he now has our 11 year old daughter using the same words and expressions. So, in trying to demonstrate to her how that sounds I told her the following story: “I’sa standin’ out by the trailer t’odder day, and gol dern iffin I ain’t seen the bigges’ ol’ torader!”
There are so many things in common usage in the English language that just frighten me. Most seem to be started by less than wonderfully educated pop stars, rappers tend to be the worst, and picked up our youth. Of course replying to this post makes me feel like an old grump. I personally want to slap anyone I hear using “hella” or “hecka” added on to any word for emphasis.