Language is a Virus from Outer Space

[linebaugh]

I remember that. I think it was a tag team. Gus made some obvious point about how all language is metaphorical and then went on some rant about the #MeToo movement

 

[WashYourHands]

When the term “seen” filtered out, that shit was more infectious than Delta

First heard at a pool table aeons ago. One individual couldn’t stop saying it, a ball popped in or a foul called = “seen”, which deviated into scene, soon, same, etc within a few years. Didn’t have the longevity of safe

Currency, language as legal tender, never ending

 

[luka]

I remember that. I think it was a tag team. Gus made some obvious point about how all language is metaphorical and then went on some rant about the #MeToo movement

thats right, its all coming back to me now

 

[sus]

kind of the opposite of what were talking about in here, but maybe not-

Ive noticed its getting increasingly harder to google definitions as theres some product, company, media association using said word that takes priority for search engines

Yeah the perspective I'm coming around to is that we have to model search results as an adversarial game between consumers and suppliers of results.

I remember that. I think it was a tag team. Gus made some obvious point about how all language is metaphorical and then went on some rant about the #MeToo movement

I would never.

 

[catalog]

you have to remember that google is not actually a search engine. it provides search in return for advertising money. that's it's business model.

 

[version]

I find this sort of thing insidious. I was just reading an RA article about Spotify streaming sets and mixes and the countries the service was live in were referred to as "markets" instead,

The service is currently available in eight markets: the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.

 

[version]

'Increasingly confused and distressed by the abandonment of simple, widely accepted, morally urgent terms like "poverty," "homeless," etc for mealy-mouthed technical phrases ("financial insecurity") or euphemistic neologisms ("unhoused")—all while the problems themselves get worse.'

 

[version]

This, from the replies, is good,

 

[version]

Apparently another couple of terms for information overload are "infobesity," and "infoxication,"

 

[linebaugh]

@yyaldrin true?

 

[luka]

Fantastic News if so.

 

[WashYourHands]

 

[woops]

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which one's you?

 

[luka]

better than Raphael

 

[yyaldrin]

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@yyaldrin true?

the first bit is true i think yes. the german language is overcomplicated in an unnecessary way, i think it's much more easier to make things sound rhythmic in english. as for the last bit, i'm not sure, it's not how i experience the city, maybe the tik tok teens think it's cool to speak english? the rest of the population doesn't though, they hardly can.

 

[yyaldrin]

nah most people can speak english. it's just that most aren't really comfortable about it let alone think it's cool.

 

[shakahislop]

referred to several people (colleagues, baristas) as thots today after tea explained it to me last night, it's not going that well all things considered

 

[Mr. Tea]

referred to several people (colleagues, baristas) as thots today after tea explained it to me last night, it's not going that well all things considered

Try it out on your mum next, then please report back ASAP.

 

[shakahislop]

Try it out on your mum next, then please report back ASAP.

she doesn't have a PhD though. also, she definitely won't ever have heard the term before

 

[Mr. Tea]

she doesn't have a PhD though. also, she definitely won't ever have heard the term before

Love the implication that all the baristas you know have PhDs.