Aug 23
“Hey!” that story was in GT first!
Cats: Canada, blogs, culture, words|Last week the Gifted Typist asked if “hey” is the new “hi”.
Today a Toronto newspaper published a piece on the very same subject.
Hmmmmmm.
The words are not the same, but it is curious that the piece should appear so soon after GT’s post. Shall we sue?
Thanks to the etymological work, historical citations and cultural insights of GT’s bevy of bodacious commentators, I believe the hey-hi controversy was more thoroughly explored here than in the Toronto newspaper. It posits that hey is more grunt than greeting and that it’s part of the new casual movement. Holly’s analysis provided exclusively to GT was more interesting.
Still, you have to wonder where they get their ideas….
Thanks to Tagbagger for tipping me off on this one.
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:41 pm
You should totally sue! Get in your tank top and sue!
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Espanya, like totally.
Like someone’s sooooooing Judd Apatow.
Gaaaaaaa!
I am so, like, totally, sooooooooing, them.
What, like, colour tank top?
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:56 pm
They definitely owe you some cash for that brilliant story idea.
August 24th, 2007 at 6:57 am
You should be flattered. I have many great ideas stolen, and have long suspected that I am spied on as a result. I’m just glad to do my part in making the world a better place.
August 24th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Everything I’ve ever done has already been written. Damn. I was going to ask if you’d also written Knocked Up but you beat me to a pulp, I mean the punch.