00:00:01:06 Hi! I am Jim Dupree, let me ask you a question.
00:00:02:28 When you think of hot places where do you think of,
00:00:06:05 Bermuda, Bahamas?
00:00:08:11 To that I say come on pretty mama.
00:00:11:17 Maybe you think of the surface of the sun
00:00:15:05 or the liquid hot molten core of our planet.
00:00:18:18 Well, you are getting a little warmer,
00:00:20:18 but I think there is a hotter place.
00:00:21:28 Yeah, I am thinking right here.
00:00:25:03 This is HoTTTs TopiXXX.
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00:00:44:07 And welcome to HoTTT TopiXXX, I am Jim Dupree and on this show,
00:00:50:06 we debate all the hot-buttoned issues,
00:00:51:28 all the things that you want to know about,
00:00:53:10 all the things that you care about,
00:00:55:02 things that affect you on your daily life and to do that,
00:00:58:16 I am joined by three of the top minds.
00:01:01:22 We have Peter Kuling here.
00:01:03:28 Oh! that's Professor Peter Kuling, Jim.
00:01:06:10 We have Professor Peter Kuling.
00:01:08:18 Professor, may I raise my hand from the back of the class?
00:01:11:08 You always raise your hand.
00:01:12:21 May I ask you a question Professor?
00:01:14:01 Oh yes, you may, yes, please.
00:01:16:01 Are you ready to get hot?
00:01:17:24 I am ready to get hot, Jim, yes.
00:01:19:28 Excellent!
00:01:21:05 Also joining us Shela Howell. Welcome back Shela!
00:01:23:28 Thanks Jim!
00:01:25:06 - You are a Journalist. - I am.
00:01:26:28 You are going to take some of those military skills
00:01:29:00 and apply them again to the debate?
00:01:30:25 Very evenly, in every category, generally across the board.
00:01:34:28 Are you ready to get hot?
00:01:36:04 As always.
00:01:37:10 Alright, and Jerry Hirsch, Jerry Hirsch, Notary Public,
00:01:41:08 welcome back to the program.
00:01:42:14 Jim, it's great to be here!
00:01:44:12 Now, I've got a question for you.
00:01:47:08 What's that?
00:01:48:14 You are ready to get hot?
00:01:49:20 I certainly am, thanks for asking.
00:01:51:17 Let's do it, Yo! Yo! Yo! Wassup dog?
00:01:59:28 The first topic isle is all about slangs,
00:02:04:10 street slang isle.
00:02:07:12 How is the way that youths speak today
00:02:10:18 affecting the English language?
00:02:13:02 That's our topic.
00:02:14:08 Now, first I want to show you a clip,
00:02:16:06 a quick video clip of a street youth.
00:02:19:15 I want you to take a look at this and take a special listen
00:02:23:11 for all of the references that he is making that
00:02:25:21 you might not pick up on, let's run that.
00:02:28:06 [Video Clip]
00:02:53:21 Now, I don't know about you guys, but I couldn't understand
00:02:58:03 most of what he was saying, I hear that a lot of that
00:03:01:12 was actually drug slang, talking about where to make
00:03:05:13 pick-ups and drops of money and her drugs the horse they call it
00:03:10:28 or the [inaudible], I think.
00:03:13:21 Let's start with you professor.
00:03:17:23 As your expertise is in the English language,
00:03:22:00 what do you think the street slang is doing to
00:03:25:06 how we communicate?
00:03:27:02 Well, I am trying to figure out what he was actually saying,
00:03:30:10 I think he might be speaking a more evolved form of English.
00:03:33:23 Perhaps one that I am not seeing in the classroom right now.
00:03:36:24 And I mean, I think that was a weather map but Lord knows,
00:03:39:28 there is no actual weather that's that drastic and extreme,
00:03:43:18 he was inflecting quite heavily.
00:03:45:13 I don't know I'd give him an F.
00:03:47:03 You would give him an F, really?
00:03:48:29 - Most definitely. - He would flunk out.
00:03:50:28 He had trouble pronouncing that letter and I think we have to
00:03:53:29 take him up on that.
00:03:55:08 Shela, let's talk slang and let's talk a little bit about,
00:03:59:01 did you use slang as a street youth?
00:04:02:01 Sure, who didn't, right, little bit here and there.
00:04:05:27 Did you jive talking?
00:04:07:14 I am a child of the 70s, so that's probably
00:04:10:02 what we called it. Yeah.
00:04:11:10 But I just do want to... I do...
00:04:15:23 They call it hand jive talking.
00:04:18:03 Right, I would like to mention though professor if I could
00:04:21:28 and I don't actually...
00:04:24:06 I am not a professor of English as you know.
00:04:26:14 No, no.
00:04:27:20 But he was speaking French, badly.
00:04:33:28 Oh, see, I am not sure if I can take your opinion, he didn't
00:04:37:23 call you professor before the show started, but... No.
00:04:40:07 Jerry Hirsch, I want to hear your opinion on this,
00:04:43:22 street slang.
00:04:45:03 Well, first of all...
00:04:46:18 Could you understand what he was saying?
00:04:48:28 He?
00:04:50:10 I thought that young lady had a fairly strong point,
00:04:56:19 probably has a good history of the English language,
00:04:59:20 but it also has a good future in musical theater.
00:05:02:12 But regarding slang I think it's very, very useful today,
00:05:08:28 what's the alternative we revert back to 16th century,
00:05:12:04 Shakespearian dialogue where you have to say [inaudible]
00:05:15:22 or furthermore or [inaudible] on a fortnight.
00:05:19:29 What's a fortnight? Two weeks.
00:05:21:17 What is a fortnight?
00:05:22:27 I believe that's four years and it's on the lunar calendar.
00:05:25:28 Four years, four hours.
00:05:28:08 40 years? I don't know.
00:05:30:03 14.
00:05:31:20 A fortnight to me... No, there is a film The Fortnight Year Old Virgin.
00:05:33:28 - Yes. - Yeah.
00:05:36:08 Did you see that with Adam Sandler?
00:05:37:14 [inaudible]
00:05:38:27 I am not familiar with it.
00:05:40:13 Did you use the slang growing up?
00:05:42:19 I used slang, I didn't use Elizabethan slang, I used songs,
00:05:51:28 I used to sing songs actually, make songs with slang,
00:05:56:01 like F-U, what you're doing here?
00:05:58:10 What would you call your gun?
00:06:00:02 I called it a chunk.
00:06:01:08 - A chunk? - Yeah.
00:06:02:18 [inaudible] reference to... the chunk you would
00:06:04:08 blow out of somebody's brains.
00:06:05:14 No, no, no, it was sort of... it wasn't a real gun,
00:06:09:05 it was carved from wood and he used to shot paper clips,
00:06:14:11 so it was really just a chunk of wood.
00:06:15:26 Chunk of wood.
00:06:17:02 And yet, you will notice that Jerry speaks,
00:06:19:19 articulates himself quite well now, so one slang
00:06:23:22 and proper English diction can in fact co-exist nicely,
00:06:27:18 I think as Jerry has just proven.
00:06:29:14 Thank you Shela. Yeah.
00:06:30:28 Yeah. But I mean in my classroom, I tried to ask
00:06:33:18 everyone to write in shorthand, in an attempt to sort of preamp
00:06:36:24 to the slang revolution, that's going to overtake us.
00:06:39:18 In that way learning to go through what I see as an
00:06:42:03 evolution of scroll is actually working out quite well I find.
00:06:45:13 We have to look to the courts demographers
00:06:47:27 who are the initial slangsters.
00:06:49:16 I want to ask you, I want to turn the page a bit and ask you
00:06:53:14 where do you think this is going, do you think we are
00:06:55:01 ever going to live in a world where parents can actually
00:06:57:18 understand their kids, where the oldsters will be in touch.
00:07:01:16 Yes, No?
00:07:03:13 It will be symbolic if it does, it will be all through
00:07:05:24 symbols and clicks.
00:07:07:00 I am intrigued this young gentleman we've seen
00:07:09:21 seems to have this magical instrument from the future
00:07:12:24 that sort of echoes his voice as well.
00:07:14:27 Might be like a cell phone, might be something that replaces
00:07:17:29 the voice box, think about it.
00:07:19:28 We are going to have to leave it there, but when we come back,
00:07:22:18 we are talking about cyber-space the Internet, stick around.
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