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Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 16, 1956
May 15, 1956
May 17, 1956
Transcript:
Patty is talking to Lucy by the door at the front of the house. Lucy says, "So I said to my mother, 'I'm going outside'..."<br> <br> She continues, "'NO YOU'RE NOT,' she said...so I said,'WHY?!'"<br> <br> She continues, "And then she said, 'BECAUSE I SAID SO, THAT'S WHY!'" Patty asks, "Then what did you say?"<br> <br> Lucy leans against the door, grimaces, and replies, "Nothing..I knew it was hopeless if she was going to pull rank on me!"<br> <br>
This strip illustrates how people used to speak proper English. In the second and third panels, nowadays Lucy would quote her Mom and herself as saying, âAnd she was like, âno youâre notâ,â "And I was like, âWhy?â âAnd she was like, âBecause I said so, thatâs why!ââ I think it began with the Valley Girls in the 1980s, and since then itâs spread like kudzu. Adults are to blame, since it began in the â80s. Itâs almost sad these days when you hear kids from elementary school through college age speaking to one another. It seems as if they canât go 10 seconds without saying âlike.â How theyâll excel in job interviews in the future is beyond meâŠalthough chances are the interviewer will have the same habit, and so probably wonât even notice it.