#evolving of language

[aizawaondrugs]

Everyday I wake up and am forced to realize that today's slang is tomorrow's formal language

I'm also forced to realize everyday that what we now know as the very formal and old way of speaking is just ye old fandom speak from ye old nerds back in the day

Example:

Taken from the Odyssey->Odesse: a long wandering or voyage

(This is a challenge for every literature nerd focusing on anything even remotely related to European Literature to take a shot for every book/fic with even a single word relating to the Odyssey that they read before. Happy getting drunk!)

[pangur-and-grim]

[weaverofink]

oh shit metal stole tails' speak & spell

[ohitslen]

Living together.

The snail video if you are interested :)

[elizabethan-memes]

"Why is English so full of irregular verbs and counterintuitive pronunciation" because we made a deal with the devil in exchange for ungendered nouns* and a one-size-fits-all definite article.

"It wasn't worth it" as I said. A deal with the devil.

*except ships.

[dimetrodone]

Trying to brainstorm ways for electroreception based languages could work practically (spec bio wise, not humans lol), but the range for it sensory wise seems pretty limited (compared to vocal and visual communication which you dont need to be right beside a person to communicate with them)

[thevalleyisjolly]

It's a minor detail but I'm so emotional over Doctor Who making the universal human language in the future based on Cantonese.

[neechees]

White person making fun of aave but chalking it up to "weird" tiktok speech & then defending themselves by saying its about "how language evolves" when rightfully told that what they just said was antiblack

[nerdygaymormon]

[hawnks]

The thing about romance novels is that everyone loves to hate on them but they WILL save your life if you let them

[nidbaesenpai]

I made post game strips of the ISAT party using the Siffrin internal monologue 'you' pronouns for everyone which was fun however. I do think everyone has different ways of referring to themselves internally.

Odile and Bonnie use 'I'.

Siffrin, Loop and Isabeau use 'you'.

Mirabelle uses 'we'.

[baejax-the-great]

One of my biggest regrets is allowing my high school english teacher to teach me the meaning of the word 'enormity' because literally nobody after her has ever used that word to mean its original meaning and it now pretty much exclusively means 'bigness' and I hate hate hate that Ms. Griffith saddled me with this knowledge that will irk me every damn day

[hayaku14]

boomer kaito socmed au where kaito likes to randomly sign off his tweets with the rose emoji 🥀 but rn it's evolve into being used as the new 😭→💀→🥀 emoji so twitter just thinks kaito is laugh crying or being sarcastic/ironic all the time lmao

@.kaito.k finally coming home to shinichi today!!!! 🥀

>>oh girl that's not....

>>> i don't think he knows this 🥀 lmao 🥀🥀🥀

>>>>shh let him be, he's not chronically online like us 🥀

>>>you must be new here he's been using that emoji since before he blew up let him live 💀💀💀

>>>ofc a 💀 user would say that

[deservedgrace]

cult jokes are a symptom of and contribute to the simultaneous sensationalizing of cults (cults are all dark cloaks and animal sacrifices and devil worship and group suicide and despicable/unhinged beliefs) and diminishing of cults ("uwu come join my CULT XD we're gonna make cookies and WORSHIP SATAN teehee"), but i'm realizing how they go so hand-in-hand with the mindset of "only ~stupid/evil/crazy/etc.~ people could possibly join a cult. if it were me i would simply not fall for cult propaganda."

the diminishing part means that people don't take you seriously if you say you're an ex cult member or talk about your experiences in a cult or believe you are a current victim of a cult, because cults are just silly little groups that have weird beliefs but are otherwise innocuous. the sensationalizing part means people will also not take you seriously because if it was Actually a cult cult, that does harm and has evil beliefs, you should've known better because any reasonable person would have seen through it. the other side of "only an [xyz] person joins a cult" is "i am not an [xyz] person so i will never join a cult or be victim to propaganda and other cult tactics." the other side of "if it were me i would simply not fall for propaganda" is "someone falling for propaganda is fully a choice and a personal failing on their part." and combined they make: if you were [xyz] enough to join a cult and fall for propaganda, that means you deserved it.

people who would never make jokes about any other kind of abuse but feel perfectly fine making cult jokes used to kind of baffle me, because why is joking about personal abuse a problem but large-scale/group abuse is fine? why is it suddenly funny when you're the one that wants to perpetuate the abuse? but if your belief around cults is: "your experience wasn't that bad [diminishing], and if it was that bad [sensationalizing] it was your own fault and personal failing [i would simply not fall for propaganda], which means you deserved what you went through [only stupid/evil/crazy/etc people join cults]" and you don't understand how cults or cult tactics work, cult survivors/victims probably feel like a fair target for jokes (they are not, to be clear).

[magnuficentwo]

featherless ✅ biped ✅ These are Men

[dreaming-hibi]

Giotto, using old Japanese: "I accept your (kisama no) resolve." Tsuna: "Ok, boomer."