Boots With the furr, with the furrrrrrr......
The whole club was lookin, at hurrrrrrr......
She hit the floe! [she hit the floe!]
Next thing you knoe!
Shawty got lo-w, lo-w, lo-w, lo-w, lo-w, lo-w, lo-w, low.
Them baggy sweat pannts,
With the...
HO GAWD MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!
I hate it when songs get stuck in my head.
HA. RANDOM PERSON, FEEL MY PAIN.
Yes, you are indeed random, to me.
....
Now, I'm going to discuss the word "random."
Observe what this online dictionary tells me: [observe a standard definition with examples.]
adjective, noun.
adj. by chance; with no plan, method, or purpose; casual.
Ex. to take a random guess, to make a random sampling of opinion. He was not listening and made a random answer to the teacher's question. Cancer is brought about through a random mutation or change in the character of body cells (Observer).
noun a random course or movement.
expr. at random, by chance; with no plan or purpose.
Ex. The librarian took a book at random from the shelf. Laurence had chosen these illustrations ... quite at random (William H. Mallock).
Okay then.
So, here's an opinion of mine:
This word is used out of context most of the time it is used, and just plainly overused in general.
It is used in reference to cultural references:
i.e. "Wow, Tom Cruise saying "I LOVE KATIE HOLMES" on Oprah last night sure was random, huh?"
-That's not random. It's to be expected; he was getting married to her.
See, you have to think ahead.
It makes me wonder; how far into the future can you use "random" for?
Really, if you say that was random in the conversation they were having, then yes, it'd be in place. However, what if you think on a wider scale; like, the whole thing about the fact he was marrying her. How far, or little, must you think ahead to use "random" correctly?
It's also used in reference to, dear Lord, the word "Cheese."
-CHEESE IS NOT RANDOM.
Cheese was random at first, but then calling cheese random caught on like wildfire, and now is no longer random. [[Hint, hint.]] It is commonly expected, and no longer funny to a large portion of intelligent people.
Now, here's the grand thing;
From the definition- "by chance."
Ooookaaayyyy, then.
Nothing is by chance, if you're talking about conversations.
A person will think of what they're going to say in their heads before they say it- so, therefore, it would not be considered random. The only way something could be supposedly "random" in a conversation is if you're thinking of the same thing, and say it at the same time, but then again- that's purely coincidence.
........
The only true random thing I could think of, really, is like in the definition's example,
is gambling and medical terminology.
Really, what else is truly random?
-Science is getting more and more accurate, and things are easily becoming predictable, right down to weather patterns. Thus, it's harder and harder for things to be considered random.
The conclusion?
-"Random" should not be used so much. I can promise, in almost any conversation related to gambling or the science of medicine and health care, that a better word can be used to replace "random."
-End. 2/20/08
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