http://www.slate.com/discuss/forums/68090/ShowForum.aspxPress BoxenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61120.2)http://www.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/1424747.aspxTue, 24 Jun 2008 17:13:31 GMT8e55aff1-63ee-4857-a1e9-69fccb83d317:1424747ncwebguy0http://www.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/1424747.aspxhttp://www.slate.com/discuss/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=68090&PostID=1424747<P>Any Publication That Wants To Be Taken Seriously probably has a style manual that de-hey'd any and all ink on its pages.</P> <P>Yet the "hey" has been a sort of gatekeeper (are you in or are you square) in video form. The afore mentioned Fonzie salutation was a 70s take/exaggeration of 50s cool.</P> <P>This evolved/devloved in the 80s into the catch phrase. In the 90s, the "greeting" came back with a vengance via the instantly annoying "waaazzzzuupppp" and its mutations which eventually led to the Joey on Friends/Brooklyn wiseguy opener "How You doin'?"</P> <P>The web's connectivity gives rise to micro-broadcast/mini-market/go ultra-tribal. There already are "dialects" of English on several websites -- slashdot, fark, 4chan, etc. -- that would never be up to the NY Times' "fit to print" standard.</P> <P> And they like it that way.</P>