thesimsstories - riley's diary
this is good examples of style of talk I so dislike. flippant? glib? superficial? conventional - but it's this convention I dislike.

I mean, I don't mind and often I enjoy the manner of twop talk, even though there's cleary a convention of style there right? 'snark' or whatever. it's funny, witty, not infrequently smart I think. mean sometimes I suppose. the statements mostly seem meant to me. believable as thoughts of the writer.
versus?
what characterizes riley's style?
seems to me dumb. which doesn't articulate it much does it.
saying for effect things that are not especially true and not witty at all and usually about emotions or dramatic events in one's own life so esp egregious to me that I don't think the speaker means it.
"I have just one thing to say." followed by, in this case that so-and-so is a 'good kisser'. beh. to that phrase. but leaving that aside, what's the 'I have just one thing to say' doing?
a cutesy announcement of something she wants to tell you.
ah it's like gossiping about yourself and own emotions. shallow. dishonest. disowning. because you're talking about yourself but the manner is not appropriate to describing experience from within ~ subjectively. hm. maybe it's taking pleasure in representing yourself in a third-person sort of way. ~ ~ I dunno.
representing yourself simplistically.
what am I meaning by cutesy? in what does cutesy consist? that would get at it.
the superlative "just one" is characteristic of this style, which also includes as a staple references to "my entire life." which, you know, the entirety of the life is never a material issue. 'I hadn't seen that before' would suffice as well as 'in my whole life.'
emphasis. of what, why? of one's self? me. my life. all of it.
but probably the egregious thing here is that I think they've heard people say that, and that's why they are saying that. not because it occurred to them to think emphasize in that way.

but I am ok with saying some things that are idioms in a given style, given to you to say in a certain situation, words and manner available to you because you've heard other people speak that way.
so what, not when it's about something that ought to be a personal expression of feeling?
not when the statement is supposed to be taken as not just dramatic but sincere.

I don't take Riley speak as sincere or as interesting.


// I noticed the advert - unusual for me - on twop and clicked I think bcs wanted to see if this was a new show called "The Life of Riley" after ... oh after a television show by that name. I guess I didn't know what that was the title of. known to me as an expression? ~ idiom

I didn't notice that phrase anywhere on the site. but they must have intended?
the ad says 'Meet Riley. It's her life but it's your story.'

the ad is on the page with the Gilmore Girls recaplet