Language is a Virus from Outer Space

[sus]

another american girl thing at the moment: a very agreeable mmmmmmmhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm sound

Shaka's just showing off at this point

 

[sus]

 

[Murphy]

this would be the same in reverse if you visited, say, Wigan and asked for a pint of Carling

 

[shakahislop]

Shaka's just showing off at this point

you know the sound I mean!

 

[version]

 

[Mr. Tea]

How does he manage to make idiocy sound so close to a kind of genius?

 

[version]

'I wrote A Hacker Manifesto in an imaginary language I call “European,” which is equal parts Church Latin, Marxism, and business English—the three transnational languages of the continent.'

 

[version]

— Baudrillard, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

 

[version]

'Oligarchy' is the current buzzword.

 

[william_kent]

'Oligarchy' is the current buzzword.

I've seen 'Broligarchy' used a lot the last few days

 

[version]

I've seen 'Broligarchy' used a lot the last few days

 

[shakahislop]

another one is the way american girls have started to say 'yeeeeees' with a funny emphasis and somehow turning it into two syllables. absolutely every american girl i meet is doing this at the moment. does anyone know what i mean?

they've stopped doing this, all of them, en masse