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SLyM
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First off: yes, language is descriptive not prescriptive. Yes, language is constantly evolving and there are no wrong ways to use language as long as everyone involved understands what's being said.
Having said that, there are some things I cannot stand and never will, no matter how common and accepted they become. Using "videoed" instead of "recorded," using "lived" when you mean "survived," and if course, the horrible awful no good apostrophe used on a plural, instead of a possessive.
Use this thread to complain about people using language in a way that drives you up the wall, or just tell me I'm a curmudgeonly sick-in-the-mud.
Either is fine.
Having said that, there are some things I cannot stand and never will, no matter how common and accepted they become. Using "videoed" instead of "recorded," using "lived" when you mean "survived," and if course, the horrible awful no good apostrophe used on a plural, instead of a possessive.
Use this thread to complain about people using language in a way that drives you up the wall, or just tell me I'm a curmudgeonly sick-in-the-mud.
Either is fine.
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I'm glaring super hard at you, Squim
I get it but also I hate it and think you're a coward and a lickspittle for letting a computer scare you.
I know this a jokey post, but unalive is a stand-in for the word suicide and those words allow content creators to make videos on those difficult subjects and not get immediately scrubbed away by the algorithm. So like, calling someone who just wants to talk about their suicidal feelings a coward feels like, pretty harsh, and I know that's not what you really meant but I'd just be aware the phrasing here felt just a bit off
I'm also just mad we've bowed to a corporate system that is so shotgun style draconian in it's censorship you can't talk about actual real things with actual real words without being weirdly cutesy to dodge the Machine. Like those face scramblers to beat facial recognition. Its another notch in the dumbest possible cyber dystopia we've created.
Edit: I actually think the term may have originally started with an animated Disney Spiderman cross over with Deadpool or something? As a dig at Disney censorship? Then it got picked up by the Tik Toks?
Double edit: yeah this
I hate when people say "piña" to refer to pineaples, its "Ananá", we invented the thing, we call it Ananá, theres other things called piña, stop trying to colonize our fruits.
"Forgive me father, for I have sinned"
When they mean
"Sorry Daddy, I've been naughty"
Roughly 75% of my mental bandwidth every day is consumed with resisting the urge to correct people who 'misuse' less/fewer.
Also ages ago I learned that "X is comprised of 3 things" is wrong and it should either be "X is composed of 3 things" or "X comprises 3 things" and that knowledge has been a fucking curse I tell you what.
Yes, it literally was
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I've got a writing/linguistics background so I'm pretty chill when it comes to a lot of the standard bugbears
but the one that comes to mind is when people write 'of' instead of 'have' as in 'I could of done that'
it makes total sense why people do it but that one really bugs me more than it should (of)
"Gaslighting", a specific kind of abuse or sustained behavior, is used to mean "anything mildly deceptive or not fully honest". "Narcissist", a diagnosis that was already misunderstood, is now a generic way of labeling selfish people or even people who don't like you as ontologically evil, similar to how "sociopath" was used before. "Emotional labor" is dead in the ground as a concept because it got broadened to mean "anything that's stressful". Real, useful terms were overused out of functional existence.
While this is mostly true, mattress actress, to get around porn star being banned is very fun to say.
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I'm fine with stuff like this or even unalived, because that feels to me like using language still, you're using the other tools that language has given you to create an easily understood meaning
Seggs is just lazy, fuck off with that shit
I have a bad habit of mixing metaphors a lot that do not rise to this level of quality so bravo
I saw some graffiti at work that said, "Josh loves Glen alot" so of course I scrawled below it, "A lot is two words" and some dickhead came along later and smeared my helpful message 😤
I saw one carved into a strip of trim or something on a gas station wall in Washington that said, "Eat ass like a boss" and I think about it a lot
edit: I just remembered I took a pic lol. Some guy walked in while I was doing so and I panicked and ran away
Or maybe the original scribe realised they were running out of time and rushed to finish
I did this on purpose, yes.
Exactly, this is one of the reasons why I love graffiti
I'm fairly relaxed about language stuff.
But, back in the Diablo 2 days a lot of people (Europeans possibly?) would use 'dudu' instead of druid in the chat, and it drove me crazy. It's barely shorter! It's not clever!