I agree, this probably had more to do with his feeling left out. I’d guess some combination of the stinging memories of being in an outgroup as a youngster, and how memes and in-jokes were used as clique boundaries, combined with his expectation of authority in this position. The guy manages a Chik-Fil-A though, so I don’t have a whole lot of expectation that he’s got his ducks particularly in a row psychologically either…
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Huh. Is it a recent neologism? I’ve heard many a young person refer to a loved one as their “boo,” but not once have I heard or read “bae” before this thread. But then I’m pretty thoroughly unplugged from youth culture, and have been since the late 90s or so. My eldest is just in 2nd grade, so she doesn’t have a hell of a lot of youth slang going on yet. Other than “feeps” and “swerm” and “ba” and a few other terms that I strongly suspect are more-or-less unique to our family.
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Yup. Wait until you have a houseful of teenagers. You’ll know all the lingo, whether you want to or not!
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In Pinker’s defense, I would guess the podcast episode title “Using Grammar as a Tool, Not as a Weapon” was written by Lindsay Beyerstein or someone at Point of Inquiry podcast, not necessarily by Pinker.
My favorite is Ebola (stop accusing people of having ebola) LOL
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“So, Felicia,cuz, bae, can you please tell your oh-so childish son to chill his fool self out and tell me what he wants besides extra salty fries? No, sorry, we stopped carrying that about a week ago after we had that accident where that ratchet fell into the fryer and everything was just… guh. Oh, you’ve got to call our aunt and check up on her since she thinks she’s got Ebola? Okay, give my love to the rest of the fam.”
Most of the banned list used in a mostly legitimate business transaction.
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All the hilarious parentheticals are what make me suspect the manager has a sense of humor and this memo is at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
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