one day ...

while flipping through my old ESL (english as a second language) book, I have noticed that most things we were taught were never used by me. Such are the rediculous "I will have finished my homework by the time you come".

most importantly I realized this: the english language has evolved a lot in the recent years. The older people say "upon" while the new generation teen-agers have conveniently shortened the word to just two letters: "yo"

now, instead of saying the boring, very much english-sounding sentence "Upon reaching the age of 21, I received my inheritence" ... you simply say the new and exciting "Yo, reaching the age of 21, I received my inheritence"

short, to the point ... "yo" has taken over a significant number of words in the english dictionary. And I say, to hell with the old!

"yo, getting expelled fom high-school is totally bitch ass" is an awfull lot better sounding than a sentence with some insignificant old word like "truily" or "obviously".

"yo" is truily a marvel of linguial evolution. One word that makes any conversation with a person seem more significant. "yo" shows politeness for you are directly referring to the audience (from one person, to an auditorium of people)

I have witnessed the most beautiful conversation between two potheads:

"so what have you done this weekend yo?"
a painfully long silence followed by:
"nuttin, how about you yo?"
a surprisingly lengthy period of time after which:
"nothing, so you still with that bitch, yo?"
a pause only comperable to those where mathematicians think of hard problems
"yeah, I`m still with her, and you yo?"
this as you can imagine has already been almost 2 minutes ...

fortunately the bell to dismiss my gym class rang and I sped out of there in hopes of catching a glimpse of that excessively beautiful girl in the hall

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