My favorite millennials-only linguistics trend of our generation and only our generation is how we can just make a one-sentence pop culture reference and you don’t need to explain what you mean because everyone just GETS IT if they know the story, like, you don’t need to go on this long explanation of something when you can just say “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” or “Shaka, when the walls fell”
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Please appreciate this Japanese shitpost
I’m gonna show this to Hubs
explanation time:
“ni” = 2 in Japanese. so “ni”colas cage = 2 heads
they replaced the “ni” with 1 and 3, making iccolas cage up top and sancolas cages on the bottomi.e., its the japanese equivalent of that janear, jafar meme
thank u friend i would not have known how very important this post is without your kind translation
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my biggest pet peeve wiht the english language is that you don’t have sin/sina
in swedish if u have two people who use the same pronoun u can always tell whos doing what bc its like ‘han tog sin väska’ (he took his[own] bag) and ‘han tog hans väska’ would be that he took the other persons bag
but in english its like if u have 2 ppl w/ the same pronoun:
“she took her bag” whose bag????WHose BAG was it her OWN bag or the other her’s bag??????????????
“he ate his donuts” were the donuts his own???? did he fucking eat someone elses donuts??? YIU DONT KNOW bc english is a bullshit language
its funny that people are calling this the gay fanfiction dilemma bc thats literally why i made this post. i was writing a gay fanfic.
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my fav linguistic trend is how younger ppl use “like” to signify paraphrasing and how older ppl dont get it. i’ll say something along the lines of “he was like, ‘fuck off!’” and any older person in the vicinity will be like “did he really say that??” no i was paraphrasing, hence the use of “like” instead of “said.” try to keep up, sandra
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nobody on this website knows what communism is
its the service of christian worship at which bread and wine are shared
No that’s communion communism was a show on nbc about a community college
you’re thinking of community. communism is a form of birth control that goes over a penis
youre thinking of a condom. communism is the travel to a place on a daily basis to go to work
youre thinking about commute. communism is when you share/exchange ideas,information, or news with someone.
you’re thinking of communication. communism is an electronic device used from storing and processing data.
you’re thinking of a computer. communism is a form of symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other has no effect.
you’re thinking of commensalism. communism is a ceremony in which degrees or diplomas are conferred on graduating students.
youre thinking of commencement. communism is the state in which something has been finished.
You’re thinking of completion, communism is an actively deforming region when two or more tectonic plates move toward each other and collide
you’re thinking of a convergent boundary, communism is the process of burning
you’re thinking of combustion. communism is sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others
You’re thinking of compassion. Communism is a punctuation mark used mainly to separate parts of sentences
You’re thinking of a comma. Communism is a direct order.
You’re thinking of a command. Communism is when you express sympathy or pity.
You’re thinking of commiseration. Communism is when you give the different forms of a verb.
You’re thinking of conjugation. Communism is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.
you’re thinking of Covalent bond. Communism is a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a “tail” of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.
You’re thinking of a comet. Communism is when is when you offer someone money, goods, or services in exchange for for their work, time, loss, or expenditure.
You’re thinking of compensation. Communism is the act of making something smaller by pressing.
but-the-library-of-alexandria:
the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise - what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that
Tolkien had the time apparently
LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
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my fav linguistic trend is how younger ppl use “like” to signify paraphrasing and how older ppl dont get it. i’ll say something along the lines of “he was like, ‘fuck off!’” and any older person in the vicinity will be like “did he really say that??” no i was paraphrasing, hence the use of “like” instead of “said.” try to keep up, sandra
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awkward how reassuring i find this
well ya duh society shames speech patterns associated with young women
“Speech fillers” are just a human’s way of saying “wait a sec I’m thinking”. It means we think more before we speak, always trying to find the right way to say it. Every language has them. And people shouldn’t be annoyed by it, ever.It also sets the “stage” of the person who is speaking, basically telling the listeners that the person is not finished and would like to elaborate more on their point. (i learned this from a linguistics professor)
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i really love our generation’s joke trend of like, very calm but incredibly inflated hyperbole. like nobody says “oh she’s pretty” anymore we say “i would willingly let her murder me” and everyone is just like “lol same”
i think “same” is also great and “me,” i love when somebody reblogs a picture of like, a lizard, and just says “me” and we all know exactly what they mean. the current online Humor Discourse is remarkable because we trade exclusively in metaphors and implications and nobody ever, ever says anything outright and yet EVERYBODY understands each other perfectly
This reminds me of the time when I was on vacation with my family and we were hiking, and after using a rest stop, the conversation turned to the grossness of outhouses and port-a-potties, and I said that if I ever got splashback from a port-a-potty, “my soul would depart my body.” My parents found that hilarious, and my dad commented that my generation can be so clever with words bc he would only think to say something like “It would be disgusting” which doesn’t convey the sentiment nearly as well as “my soul would depart my body.”
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the funny thing about dril posts is that they actually do have a structure to them– they hit a kind of conceptual caesura halfway through, a point where there’s no inevitable logical connection between what’s been said and what’s still to come. here, the first sentence didn’t need to result in the second, yet it’s not “lol random” either; the speaker is angry about his boss’ draconian ferret-kissing policy, and reacts in kind, and even the reference to a “screen saver” reminds us that we’re in an office. it’s a narrative progression that, despite having an internal logic, alienates its punchline from its setup. who the hell is this person?
one thing i love about @dril posts is how they all seem to take place in a universe that is somewhat like our own, but with the habitus of white middle america taken to a bizarre, absurd, but strangely logical conclusion. take this one, for instance:
so we have our setting: a security guard protecting the american flag in the betsy ross museum, something almost archetypically american and middle class. but once again the first part, or setup, for the punchline, “fucking the flag,” careens the joke into an alien punchline that still, given the setting, makes sense. @dril’s security guard character imitates a sort-of cop-talk, the banter of a security guard, “buddy, they wont even let me fuck it”. you can imagine a similar response from a guard at any museum, but we’re talking about Fucking the American Flag, here.
i really love @dril.it’s astonishing that a human being thinks of those posts. some person, someone out there whose existence we have to infer, because all we know is that those posts occur and they must be coming from somewhere. “the @dril tweeter” resonates as “the beowulf poet” does, except beowulf (which i’ve only read in translation, so i’m not an authority) has never made any use of the english language as baffling and sublime and somehow primally interlaced with the stuff of human consciousness as “IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL.”
This is my favorite post, I am so glad I found it again.
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