Jackspeak

You either, according to the Facebook group`s strapline, love it or hate it. That`s Jackspeak, aka navy slang, or slanguage . I joined this group yesterday. I posted a comment regarding one term I have always liked: "muscle bosun". You find muscle bosuns at the gym, or so I`ve heard, but the term pokes fun at a particular type of fella, who fancies himself as buff. It`s a put down, in fact. Which reminds me, today I saw a young chap wearing a t-shirt which read

I have the body of a god
Shame it`s Buddha

which just goes to show that self-deprecation is still fashionable, or at least alive and endearingly flabby.



Back to Jackspeak - it`s in the main extremely punishing regarding women, and I wonder how the female rates cope in an atmosphere of - verbal violence I think it may be - which is defended as humour, though sounds pretty much like hatred and/or fear to me. I wont go into detail, you`ll have to get a Jackspeak dictionary. Some of the slang is vaguely funny, but mostly it`s just crass.

The reason I mention this at all here is because I made a boo-boo on the post, and spelled bosun boson, as in particle physics. Which did make me smile. I`m waiting for someone at the site to pick me up on it, but it may be a long wait.

Well, if my interest in Jackspeak is fairly minimal, yours is probably non-existent, except in a quantum way ( ah, but what if it were the Muscle Boson, which, on being discovered by the LHC, would change the view of the Standard Model and all we know about the Universe?) and I promise not to mention it again.