Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
@gerikson @BlueMonday1984
Hypothesis 3: As some people seem to insist, āliterallyā has recently morphed into a contronym, and now it figuratively also means āfigurativelyā.
ā¦sorry, I meant it literally also means āfigurativelyā.
ā¦no, wait, thatās just the same thing. š It *actually* also means āfigurativelyā.
(Really? People couldnāt find a better new word to provide emphasis than āliterallyā? What word do they want to unambiguously represent that concept now? Do they care? Ughā¦)
āLiterally, not figurativelyā, said in a Sterling Archer voice.
ā Merriam-Webster
It seems really common for words for factuality to become intensifiers. I just used the word āreallyā as an intensifier, thought it really means things occurring in reality. āVeryā had the same thing happen to it, as it originally meant ātruthfullyā (as in āverifyā or āverityā). If I say something is ātruly massiveā, am I likely specifying the massiveness is not imaginary in some sense, or am I trying to convey massiveness beyond the lower bounds of āmassiveā? Is a āproper bangerā of a tune distinct from an improper banger or is it just a highly bangerful banger?
fuzzy logic says this thing has mass most of the time, ish
english is a fuck
Bit late to tilt at this windmill tbh. Prescriptivist pedantry is prohibited past puberty. This was decreed by Maximilian D. English (the D stands for dictionary) in 1727. I donāt make the rules (MDE does)
tom sawyer literally rolling in wealth
but he never helps huck finn out financially?
pretty shit story, mark