nine three oh eight warm up

1. I saw a lot of patterns in the formation of the unique words. For example, much of the language that was family-specific originated when a family was all doing something together; eating a traditional French meal, or camping, or in one case there was a pet that the family shared. In other words, there seemed to be one event or object that the family would center around... a meal or a pet. I think many words were 'invented' at these times because they are casual, social moments, everyone's joking, laughing, and just the fact that they're in a group is cause for sharing. And stuff. And I guess traditions are huge, because a family adopts what the family before it would do. In other words, my mother and father reiterated what their parents did, and that was a pattern that was in all of the posts.
2. These patterns reveal that often, language is formed and adapted so much that even with English as the national language, there are so many variations among social classes, geographic regions, and other effects that cause local dialects and diction to simply emerge and form a virtually new language. Or something like that.
3. An insider is someone who 'get's the joke,' someone who understands why a certain saying is funny (or annoying, or whatever) because they have grown up and have been immersed in that culture. So yeah.