Oh, Prosodic Templating...?
Here's the thing: contrary to popular opinion, I'm not one of those super online gays who have a 'presence' online. I don't have tik-tok, I don't have Snapchat (even though the idea of someone sending nude Snaps is appealing) and I despise anything related to Twitter or Meta platforms (fuck Fuckerberg and Musk and anything that has to do with them). I do like my blog, though. It’s my one indulgence.
My last foray into some kind of social media engineering was with LinkedIn many moons ago. It didn't last long because some people that I had despised during high school suddenly found interest in me (gossip, mainly) and I could not block them fast enough. Fuckers. I didn’t like them back then and still didn’t like them after all these years. So there's that.
I subscribe to PBS and its many brands and that’s how I came across this video I’m posting and it is fucking insane. It basically explained to me why is it that I cannot understand anybody under twenty anymore. Oh, yeah. I'm not crazy (as opposed to anything you may have heard) and language is literally changing under our noses. Constantly.
So next time you talk to someone who is chronically online or is under 20, pace yourself and don’t think you cannot speak English anymore. It’s just the way the cookie crumbles. Or as I call it, censorship. Oh, and it’s nothing new, but it is kind of extreme now. All for clicks and algorithms. We’re fucked.
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I do Threads for the political commentary, YouTube because it's nice to know when friends die, Howie gets pictures posted on Instagram. And language has always changed. It's why UK English is different from American English, and why you might have difficulty understanding what someone from Biloxi is saying.
ReplyDeleteHowie on Insta would make it worth going back!
DeleteAnd linguistic change is nothing nothing new. Language is dynamic. That's why we have 'selfie' and 'hashtag' and prosodic changes in a language. What they are talking about is how censorship distorts semantics. People 'unaliving' someone for clicks and to please the algorithm is not the same as calling a cigarette a fag.
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ReplyDeleteI’m with you on this. Thank goodness for BlueSky replacing Xitter. And it always drives me crazy when people use “unalive” (which my iPad underlined as a spelling error and suggested unalienable as the correct word). It took me forever to realize that dead and kill are probably flagged words in the algorithms. So I guess repugs now “unalive” a bill they don’t like. 😎
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Ugh.
DeleteI can't with twitter. And I started seeing all these words and had to run to the urban dictionary. The problem? I'm using some of them. Ugh.
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I say what I say. I don't feel a need to alter my speech because of an algorithm.
ReplyDeleteFuck that.
See how that works.
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DeleteLove it! But you know how these 'influencers' think. And it's for real, though. Tik Tokers DO depend on the algorithm and will do ANYTHING to get those views...
Capitalism is evil.
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Big says,
ReplyDelete"Unalive" was due to avoiding the censorship algorithm? Nope. That's a load of bullshit. That one came along because "dead" or "killed" (and other words to describe death) were "triggering" for some very uber-sensitive folks. It's how we ended up with Trigger Warnings on books. This is why some have said "Woke has gone too far."
She's right, though --- language is in constant flux. Each generation comes up with new words / phrases so their parents don't know what they're saying.
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DeleteYep. Just to avoid the censorship. Those social media sites DO forbid the use of some words (you get demonetized on YouTube if you say the word 'porn'). And language has to change, of course. But changing language because of censorship and money for clicks? Call me woke.
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I don't understand Tick Tock or SnapChat or whatever this threads is. I'm not on any of it, or Facebook. The only thing I'm on is Instagram for some of my pictures and my blog.
ReplyDeleteBut I can't understand many of my friends are so outraged by Twitter, some do and some don't have accounts and bitch and gripe about how evil it is, that Musk owns it, yet they're going there to look at all the porn content ...sort of hypocritical I think.
I don't try to understand youngins in the early twenties anymore. I just stick to drinking gin.
Gurl, same.
DeleteTwitter is hell. It's a cesspool of fuckery and the people who are there for porn cannot complain. They KNOW it's full of Nazis and MAGAts and Russian bots, so what do they expect?
Good God, Girls. Get a Grip.
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Fascinating video! I love creativity in language and, like anything else, it can serve both positive and negative purposes.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree!
DeleteI love how these creators have used ingenuity and humor to overcome the problem. Hate the idea of censorship and capitalism ruling people's lives.
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Well said, SIxpence. Here’s to staying sane, speaking your mind, and not letting algorithms rewrite our language or lives!
ReplyDeleteHere, here, Mr. Shife!
DeleteIt is difficult, apparently, if you're an influencer on TikTok and probably if you're a content creator on YouTube. Crazy that these companies can dictate what people can and cannot say... and do nothing against Fascism...
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