I’ve been thinking...

Is it just me, or is everyone using the word "random" a lot more than they used to?

Think back before facebook, and MSN. Before reality TV, and MTV, and every other mind-warping, teen-based snore fest with beach names in the title; that you may have watched.

Are you there? Are you thinking of that time?

Now ask yourself how many times you can hear the word random being said, I bet it was a random occurrence to hear the word. I also bet you heard it a lot less than you do now.

So what is the big deal, right? Well, I'll tell you.

The English language is riddled with words perfectly designed to complement every sentence adequately while delivering the speaker's message. However, "random" is only ONE word, and demonstrates the gloomy lack of intelligence today's youth has. One word can't replace every adjective and adverb just because it is popular, and how the hell does a word become popular anyway?

To set the record straight, Webster defines "random" as: lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern.

How can a picture be random or better yet, how can an entire album contain random pictures? Am I to believe that somehow a selection of fifty, apparently random pictures can contain the same people, at the same location, doing the same activities? Am I then supposed to believe that all these pictures somehow randomly found their way into the same album, on the same website as their other random pictures? Seems that a process like that would need a "definite plan, or purpose".

Face it people, a picture is seldom random, you have to line up the camera for the shot.

A message or conversation is barely ever random, unless you blindfold yourself and hit "random" keys.

A television program, a joke, a movie, or a song, are all carefully planned and executed with a purpose, and therefore not random.

Please save me the headache and use some other words. A vocabulary isn't that hard to expand upon.

I am assuming this will fall upon deaf ears, so in lieu of that, just chalk this up as another "random" note.

-Gerald A. Dinkel (He just says things.)

http://sardonicconnection.blogspot.com/2009/07/3-random-promblem.html