dogs-ruletheworld:

aeternanoxfleuret:

itpuddle:

saying yo and yall in the same sentence is a sign of a chaotic neutral vocabulary

yo’ll

@redvelvetnerd

linguisten:

“People often write online messages as if they’re speaking. [David] Crystal traces that to a period of linguistic ‘free love’ in the 1990s, when breaking the rules online was encouraged, and punctuation was one way to do it. John McWhorter, a linguistics professor at Columbia University, thinks that it’s part of a long-term cultural shift toward an increasingly oral society. If formal writing is language in its Sunday best, the linguistic fashion in digital communication is distressed jeans, frayed at the hem. As the linguist Ben Zimmer says, people often punctuate creatively to express their tone of voice and their mood. Even Lynne Truss, who insists on precision in punctuation in her Eats, Shoots & Leaves, says that she starts all of her emails with a yell. Instead of ‘Dear George,’ for instance, she writes ‘George!”

—The Quotable Guide to Punctuationby Stephen Spector

greia:

himbofisher:

KID WATCHING THE VIDEO: This guy’s not not tied to his rope… this - dude, this guy’s crazy, does he have a death wish or somethin’? Oh my gosh! Doesn’t he have like a wife and kids at home???

[parachute opens up to reveal it is rainbow]

KID, IN EXACT SAME TONE: Doesn’t he have a husband and kids at home???

@dweeebster replied to your post:

Alright alright, I will let you off the hook….. This time. And it’s sweet seeing you use smiley faces.

I didn’t use any such thing. That is called an “emoji.” See? I’m not illiterate. 

squareallworthy:

squareallworthy:

squareallworthy:

squareallworthy:

squareallworthy:

Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts?

Well, you see, kids, almost twenty years ago Apple produced a portable audio player called – wait, I need to go back further.

Okay, so in the 20th century, the new inventions of radio and television were known as broadcast media – no, wait, that’s not really the start either –

Broadcasting originally refers to throwing, or casting, handfuls of seeds onto prepared ground, typically used with grain crops, which, uh –

– the Agrucultural Revoution, which begain circa 10,000 BC in the Levant, was when humans began preserving seeds for replanting –

Don’t shit on your kids’ music, it’s gross and lame. Most of our grandparents thought the Beatles were trash. Most of our parents thought Nine Inch Nails were talentless. Don’t be that 30 something, is all I’m saying. If your kids are listening to Nazi indoctrination yeah you may wanna step in but otherwise get some noise cancelling headphones and let it ride. It’s us, not them. We’re the problem now.

neptuneking:

dankmemeuniversity:

I’m

godswallowing:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

Somebody elsewhere on social media just blocked me for saying we shouldn’t attack and ostracise marginalised people who use outdated terminology to describe the way in which they’re marginalised, especially if part of that marginalisation involves struggling with language or change. Literally not for anybody else. Just themselves. This is apparently evil and unacceptable.

I am tired.

Oh and once again, I am also fucking sick of people not understanding the difference between outright slurs that were always meant to demean, and terms that either became pejorative or just uncomfortably outdated over time. “For hundreds of years people thought it was okay to call Huntington’s ‘Chorea,’ comparing a person’s body movements to dancing, but that doesn’t mean they were right, or that they should be excused for their ableism.” Yeah no totally; if people in the Middle Ages didn’t want to be problematic then they should have just developed a more complex understanding of neurological conditions centuries sooner, while somehow also just intuiting that a certain presentation of symptoms should be referred to by the surname of a guy who didn’t publish his findings until 1872.

#The gulf between deliberate cruelty and assumptions from limited knowledge without the benefit of hindsight is huge#do you know what terms we consider progressive and correct now are going to be outdated and borderline offensive in 30 years? No? Then STFU@tikkunolamorgtfo

thoodleoo:

thoodleoo:

been reading cicero’s rant about words being given obscene meanings and i don’t think i’ve ever seen a latin sentence that made me burst into such immediate and violent laughter before

had a couple people be like “i have no idea what this means” so to clarify: the word penis in latin originally meant tail and only later got the sense of, uh. penis. so this is cicero complaining that nowadays all these hooligans are using the word “penis” for naughty purposes

I saw season 1 of ‘Superman & Lois’. I liked it quite a bit, but one thing was too unrealistic to get past. Teenagers do not apologise that often. The teenage sons were apologising in every damn episode, to their parents! Wouldnot happen in real life. Teenagers grunt, sulk and ignore, they don’t apologise.

I don’t think I apologised to anyone for anything between ages 12 and 22.

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

kids these days with their sundials & their water clocks. when I was a boy we told time with our hunger pangs and we LIKED it

Iwish I were making this up

people have always just been Like This (src)

The youth

marisatomay:

the kids are really out here like “lol i can’t believe my parents and grandparents believe everything they see on facebook and fox news ahaha anyway my tiktok fyp is feeding me the platonic ideal of truth”