Lately, every time that I log onto Facebook, people’s status’ are constantly popping up with the word meow. Definition of meow: the cry of a cat.

For example, if you have seen the movie Mean Girls, and how Gretchen constantly tries to make the word “Fetch” become popular until she finally gets told it will never happen. That should be a little eye opener to people who constantly use the word meow. Stop trying to make it happen.

What I don’t understand is where this little phase came from. Using the word meow in the human vocabulary to me is just weird. I get that in certain situations the word may be appropriate, but saying “right meow” instead of “right now” is not. Whoever started this trend needs to stop it because the next time that I hear this word I swear I will vomit.

What makes this even worse is that fact that some people go way beyond just saying the phrase. They try to act it out. Buying accessories doesn’t help the cause, it makes you look even more like a fool. Just the idea that people are ac- tually going around speaking, looking and acting like cats is beyond me. So I say let’s put an end to this weird and annoying behavior, and actually start to speak the way that we were taught.

Honestly, whenever this word comes out of someone’s mouth, it makes them look unedu- cated, strange and just down right silly. I mean, it was kind of funny the first 20 times that I heard it, but come on now people, let’s give it a rest.

So the next time that I get onto my Facebook, I’m praying that I will not see one single person using the term “meow.”

Chelsea Demalas