Saturday, February 6, 2010
Question#2
Walking across the campus at San Jose State University, I often find myself in a position where I will hear very vague sentences or comments while walking past people. Whether or not this has to do with the age of many of the people on campus, or the fact that they are still students, but I do know that it seems to happen quite often. Just the other day while walking back to the parking garage, after my class had already let out, I overheard a very vague sentence while waiting for the crosswalk signal to change. It was two girls talking to each other, and when I had walked up near them I heard one girl say to the other, “You know what I mean by cute, he was tallish, he had hair, he was a good looking guy…” to which the other girl responded, “Well that really narrows it down for me.” All I could think of at the time, was “really, you are a full-time student, and that is the most information on something that you could come up, was that vague ramble?”
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That's pretty funnie that you gave that example.I never really thought about how vauge some statements are when you hear them by chance. Its true you do hear some pretty intersting little bites at school.That actually just happened to me the other day when I was in the elevator at school, there were two girls in there and one was life "...so I bought that dress the other day at the mall you know, the cute little black one." Its like do you know how many cute little black dresses there are at the mall?
ReplyDeleteYour right, for being a college student they should be able to expand on that a bit.
I love the idea of considering all tallish people with hair as "cute". The other girl's a keeper though. I disagree that students should be held to a higher standard in every day conversations. Sure they're going to college, but who goes to college to learn anymore? People are just here for the degrees. I know if I could get a degree (and extra pay) without having to go to college, I would. I would argue that many if not most people would argue the same. Second, from what I can tell (which is, admittedly, very little) the girls seemed to be making idle chitchat. I don't think that students need to sound smart all the time just because they're going to college.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with the other two comments on this situation. There is the language with your friends, where you talk in short hand like Morse code. And there’s the language that we talk when we are at school to sound better educated. When walking by someone on campus you are only getting half or bits and pieces of the conversation. You might have been hearing anther conversation she was explaining to her friend. I do agree that we do here vague sentence at school but you we can’t assume that there are not smart and full time student.
ReplyDeleteOh man... I laughed so hard with this example. I agree with this example on how I experience the same situation almost every day. When it comes to walking to classes or even eating lunch in La Victoria.
ReplyDeleteOther situations I also heard were "Oh you know that car that's low?", or "How about that burrito place?" I think recently the funniest one I heard was "Oh you know that yellow car on 7th street garage?" The reason I thought that was funny it was because I heard it twice walking randomly to class and my car is pretty much the only yellow car in 7th Street Garage so I know they are talking about me.