Posted by Jay Livingston
The film is “Staten Island.” I pushed the “Info” button on the Verizon FIOS remote to see what it was about.
I actually checked a review at MRQE to make sure that the character was not some speechless but nevertheless supercool dude.
It makes me wonder where Verizon get its little film blurbs anyway. Someone has to be writing these things.
There are those who will wring their hands and see this as yet a further debasement of the language, a creeping illiteracy, and the end of civilization as we know it. But surely there is some more interesting linguistic relevance. Does it show the pervasive influence of hip-hop diction?
Anyway, it has inspired me to begin work on my novella – a tale of an aging but blocked writer who goes to Italy. He hangs out in the Piazza San Marco, falls in love with the youthful hip-hop culture there, and winds up freestyling in local trattorie. The title – and I call first dibs on it – “Def in Venice.”
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