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humanodon  ·  4021 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet

I don't know the name for what you're describing, but it has been happening throughout history, notably with the rise of comic books.

I still don't get why speed is such a concern though. The speed of the internet is unprecedented and so are changes that occur within it and manifest themselves in the real world. Like bitcoin.





user-inactivated  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I had a feeling that article was going to be about onomatopoeia (<-- is that a plural and a singular word at once?) and comic oaths -- but it doesn't strike me as immediately relevant, mostly because no one actually says 'cripes' who wants to be taken seriously. (People who say 'lol' -- like that -- out loud, of which there are many -- do they expect to be taken seriously?)

    I still don't get why speed is such a concern though. The speed of the internet is unprecedented and so are changes that occur within it and manifest themselves in the real world. Like bitcoin.

It's not ... I mean, of course the speed doesn't matter, it's whether the changes are any good or not. Fuck, if you want people to walk around saying 'lol' out loud or whatever, then I guess we just take polar opposite opinions here.

humanodon  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not saying I want them to, but I don't hear people saying these things in serious contexts, more as a way of being kind of cutesy. If it starts to become used extensively in high level contexts, like for example, if the CEO of a huge tech company responded to a criticism with something like, "because money, lol" then yeah, I'd be shitting it.

user-inactivated  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

At which point it will be too late! If middle and high school students are using these words nonironically, then the CEOs will be in 40 years.

humanodon  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, then it's probably already too late. Nothing to do about it except start laying the foundations for the next change.

user-inactivated  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Some days I only talk in references.

humanodon  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, I'm afraid it will have to be something other than that. People already do that and have been doing it for so many generations that often people don't realize that they are doing it, or what they are saying originally referenced.

user-inactivated  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How about where we ended up in Cloud Atlas