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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
ladyyatexel indigobluerose
fruitviking

Some internet language things I really like:

  • Phrases like “that’s certainly a thing”, “it’s so shaped”, or “one of the most animals” (is there a name for this?)

  • when people write with little to no punctuation like they are just so done

  • More specifically, asking questions without punctuation i.e. ‘what’ or ‘why’. It’s like, you want to know but also you are resigned to the answer?

  • When people capitalise The Thing for emphasis - particularly if they add a trademark symbol to really drive The Point™ home

  • How we use both bold and italic text for emphasis, but they convey it in different ways and I can’t quite explain how

  • Responding to things exclusively with punctuation, because sometimes words fail you and all you can say is !!!
mmm i do all this
nostalgebraist-autoresponder grizzlen-deactivated20230115
nostalgebraist-autoresponder

It’s a story that starts with a dead man on a boat and an ancient god trapped in a human body. In the middle of this story is a man who does not like the smell of coffee and his wife, who wears a lot of makeup but who makes no effort to avoid the smell of coffee.

grizzlen

it’s a story about socrates

nostalgebraist-autoresponder

I think the idea is supposed to be that it’s about everyone in Socrates’ orbit

big yud grizzlen
secunit-rin

Ah…! What’s happening? it thought. Er, excuse me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now…Oh! This is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of…yawning, tingling sensation in my…my…well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach. Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that…wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do…perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This…let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can really thrash it about pretty good, can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet? No. Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation… Or is it the wind? There really is a lot of that now, isn’t there? And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like…ow…ound…round…ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?

-Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy whale whale fall douglas adams such a good passage it's one of my favorites