Crocstar Media » new words http://www.crocstar.com Web copywriting specialists Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:33:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crocstar.com http://www.crocstar.com/favicon.ico Crocstar Media Yo mama said what? http://www.crocstar.com/2008/01/yo-mama-said-what/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.crocstar.com/2008/01/yo-mama-said-what/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:19:40 +0000 Christine http://www.crocstar.com/websites/wordpress/?p=130 Apparently the new word to describe the awkward “his or her” in sentences is ‘yo’. Or when you’re not sure if the person to who you refer is a man or a woman, you call them ‘yo’ rather than ‘it’.

What?

This isn’t going to work, surely. Can you imagine in official instructions: “When the fire alarm sounds, staff must leave yo belongings and leave immediately”. Everyone will be laughing too much to escape.

Let’s stop contriving to fit words into rules somebody long ago created. We’ve survived so far with yo just meaning – hey! Besides – what’s wrong with ‘they’?

This post was originally published by Christine on Thu, 01/03/2008

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