GANDA. Pop talk-savvy.
Recent notes on the new “show biz lingo” have prompted some readers to express their delight, but also to point out the highly disposable nature of such “in” words, phrases or “hashtags”—in one ear and out the other, from one year to another, as it were!
They point to the notoriously brief lifespans of popular “hugot” lines, arch put-downs like “E ‘di wow,” “—pa more” taglines, “pak!,” “ganoon?” and other coolly sarcastic putdowns and ego-poppers.
They sneer at old fogies trying desperately to sound “in” by still dropping hoary, old patutsadas like “na-Luz Valdez,” and even the pathetically geriatric and totally out “okray!”
Cold and old
What’s up next on the “trendy talk” front? Now that the cutely whimsical and fey “pa-bebe” waves and poses have overstayed their welcome and need to quickly go “pa-byebye,” even snittily going “goodbye agad?” already feels cold and old—so, what’s going to be archly “in” next month?
A reader speculates that, now that Vice Ganda has started his judging stint on the new edition of “Pilipinas Got Talent,” he could spontaneously or premeditatedly come up with fave, new put-downs that could quickly be picked up by everybody who wants to sound superior and unimpressed—just like his “E ‘di wow!” was eventually appropriated even by our pop-talk-savvy Prez, P-Noy!