tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post6309325283401778480..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: WWPD, language policePhoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-40702282970058155312012-12-24T09:58:42.835-05:002012-12-24T09:58:42.835-05:00Shorter PG: You're wrong!
In all seriousness,...Shorter PG: You're wrong!<br /><br />In all seriousness, "fresh" is used to describe <i>youth</i> and to imply that older women are past their expiration date. It's also used to refer to innocence, and as we all know, makeup other than the natural look is a sign that one has been around the block a few times. Either way, I don't like it. Not because I'm ancient and into wearing a lot of makeup (I suppose I'm in neither category), but because I don't like what it represents.<br /><br />And re: accents, fine, your experience as always offers a counterargument, but the phenomenon I'm referring to is hardly one I've invented. It's that people who think they don't have an accent clearly <i>do</i> have one, everyone does, but it just isn't something they themselves can hear. I remember this from college - I also don't sound very New York in the caricature sense, but to people from the Midwest, it was immediately clear that I was from elsewhere, and fairly clear that the elsewhere in question was the Northeast. But not New England. New York.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-64338541665022868472012-12-23T22:47:08.279-05:002012-12-23T22:47:08.279-05:00But if you think if it not as in, New Yawk, but as...<i>But if you think if it not as in, New Yawk, but as in, the absence of any of the other regional American accents, it's there.</i><br /><br />I don't quite understand what this means. I don't think I have much of any regional American accent -- someone was just remarking today that I have neither a Northern nor Southern accent -- but I don't think I sound like Streisand either.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-66313356343626005162012-12-23T22:45:54.084-05:002012-12-23T22:45:54.084-05:00Since "fresh-faced" is a compliment I...Since "fresh-faced" is a compliment I've received, I'm opposed to removing it. I don't think it's based solely on age (I've received it from people only a few years older than myself), but more on a look: minimal makeup and clear skin. I don't get adjectives like "sophisticated" much, so I'm reluctant to ban it.<br /><br />"Fresh new face," however, I'll agree is an unnecessary phrase that smacks of 1920s silent screen gossip rags.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.com