I found the article we had to read called "The Dude Typography" to be absolutely hilarious. I loved the "remarkable poetry" of "chromoplastitudes & chloroplastidesems/ Boltesmanaz and Crossmannerism. Hifalutin codfish nabobs." Really? Poetry? I was trying to figure out which language was being used. Apparently it is English. Hifalutin is pretentious and a nabob is a wealthy or influential person. Its amazing how words fall out of use and become almost ancient to our modern culture. And its maybe more incredible how a word such as "dude" has endured since the 1880's! It is still a common phrase used by everyone and it just shows the power of a word to last cultures, revolutions, generations, and centuries.