Is it wrong to tell someone that they just got served? I was thinking about this at work today when handing (aka serving) the customer their food. Would it be wrong if I was to tell the customer that they just got served? According to the Urban Dictionary, "you got served" means "to be schooled or beaten very badly, A slang expression that is usually used when someone proves that they are better than someone else, Another way of saying 'You just got owned', or Colloquial vernacular to express the status of one who is the recipient of a subpoena, which more commonly would be expressed as 'You've been served' or 'Consider yourself served.'"
Having defined being served, telling a customer that they got served would mean me stating that I am superior to them, and that they are now owned by me. What are the social, ethical, and institutional ramifications of "serving" people? A lot of people, mostly the urban youth, throw this term around lightly, but they don't understand exactly what they are implying when they utter the line "you got served!" MTV and feature films such as You Got Served (2004, courtesy of Columbia Tristar, with Sony pumping out a hip hop soundtrack that will appeal to the lost youth of today and be forgotten in 3 months) have desensitized America's youth into believing that words have no power and cannot make an impact on their peers. When the unmindful younglings fail to recognize the denotative meaning of the word or phrase they are uttering, the meaning is forever lost and the phrase will become part of popular culture and assimilated into our language. When this does happen, all hope for the future of mankind is squandered, and the leaders of tomorrow will wander helplessly in search of the society that they have destroyed by their uneducated methods of information transfer. God help us all.
Oh, and by the way, y'all just got served.
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