"Peeps"? Oh please!
Being a wordsmith and "she who eats dictionaries for breakfast" there are a few recent trends in the vernacular that are driving me nuts.
"Peeps" is one of those trends.
When I think of peeps I think of those horribly sweet little marshmallow things parents put in Easter baskets. They come in obnoxious colors and taste awful. Those are Peeps. The company even has a trademark on the name.
"Peeps" are not people. Hangin' with your peeps is not a phrase that makes you sound cool or even "G" (gangsta - and how in the world that term became something to strive for eludes me). You sound as those you slept through English class in the seventh grade.
Now I love slang as much as the next person, maybe more since there are fun things that have been done with language over the centuries thanks to the use of slang. And as everyone who knows me is aware I do so like to have fun with language. But you have to draw a line somewhere and frankly I do not want to be anyone's "peep".
Now maybe I wouldn't mind so much if I actually liked the candy the term brings to mind, but I doubt it. I can't think of any reason why I would want to be likened to a piece of sickeningly sweet, tooth rotting, obnoxiously colored confection.
Not only do you sound silly when you use the term Peeps but actually you are infringing on a registered trademark. And do you really want to go there?
"Peeps" is one of those trends.
When I think of peeps I think of those horribly sweet little marshmallow things parents put in Easter baskets. They come in obnoxious colors and taste awful. Those are Peeps. The company even has a trademark on the name.
"Peeps" are not people. Hangin' with your peeps is not a phrase that makes you sound cool or even "G" (gangsta - and how in the world that term became something to strive for eludes me). You sound as those you slept through English class in the seventh grade.
Now I love slang as much as the next person, maybe more since there are fun things that have been done with language over the centuries thanks to the use of slang. And as everyone who knows me is aware I do so like to have fun with language. But you have to draw a line somewhere and frankly I do not want to be anyone's "peep".
Now maybe I wouldn't mind so much if I actually liked the candy the term brings to mind, but I doubt it. I can't think of any reason why I would want to be likened to a piece of sickeningly sweet, tooth rotting, obnoxiously colored confection.
Not only do you sound silly when you use the term Peeps but actually you are infringing on a registered trademark. And do you really want to go there?
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