Every single person that uses language decides for themself how to communicate their ideas: how to make the language work.
If the language works to communicate ideas to the intended audience, then it works. People invent new ways to make language work every day.
Work in physics is the transfer of energy by a force acting on a path through space. Let’s consider “Lork” an analogous concept to work, but it’s a transfer of entropy (information) by a meme acting on a path through a social network.
Sometimes the meme communicates better with unusual language structures. Those unusual language structures can be used to call attention and bring their own crunchy deep-fried feel to the meme.
Is it wrong if the meme still has the Lork to communicate the desired message? What if the “improperness” of the grammar helps to increase the Lork?
Language as we know it is being devoured and reimagined. Join in on the fun.
Language should not be dictated by any authoritarian body. We should all be the authors of our own lives and free to choose how to communicate our ideas.
It’s not language being dictated, but it’s usage, and I understand that aspect of it.
I mean, besides the obvious “you shouldn’t use hate speech,” if someone tells me that their pronouns are they/them and I ignore that and just keep using she/her, that would be incredibly disrespectful. It’s not about whether it’s grammatically valid or not, it’s the meaning and intent.
That being said, I think Drag is where I’d draw the line. It’s not that I don’t respect neopronouns, but rather that I think Drag is an insincere troll. Not to mention that the whole purpose behind neopronouns is to work around the gendered nature of standard third-person pronouns, but mandating that it also needs to apply to the gender-agnostic first- and second-person pronouns makes no sense.
Every single person that uses language decides for themself how to communicate their ideas: how to make the language work.
If the language works to communicate ideas to the intended audience, then it works. People invent new ways to make language work every day.
Work in physics is the transfer of energy by a force acting on a path through space. Let’s consider “Lork” an analogous concept to work, but it’s a transfer of entropy (information) by a meme acting on a path through a social network.
Sometimes the meme communicates better with unusual language structures. Those unusual language structures can be used to call attention and bring their own crunchy deep-fried feel to the meme.
Is it wrong if the meme still has the Lork to communicate the desired message? What if the “improperness” of the grammar helps to increase the Lork?
Language as we know it is being devoured and reimagined. Join in on the fun.
It’s the fact they (including the Blahaj admins) demand everyone else use language in the same way they do that rankles with me.
Language should not be dictated by any authoritarian body. We should all be the authors of our own lives and free to choose how to communicate our ideas.
It’s not language being dictated, but it’s usage, and I understand that aspect of it.
I mean, besides the obvious “you shouldn’t use hate speech,” if someone tells me that their pronouns are they/them and I ignore that and just keep using she/her, that would be incredibly disrespectful. It’s not about whether it’s grammatically valid or not, it’s the meaning and intent.
That being said, I think Drag is where I’d draw the line. It’s not that I don’t respect neopronouns, but rather that I think Drag is an insincere troll. Not to mention that the whole purpose behind neopronouns is to work around the gendered nature of standard third-person pronouns, but mandating that it also needs to apply to the gender-agnostic first- and second-person pronouns makes no sense.