Tag: language

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pro tip: when you fall a little behind in a conversation bc you don’t understand a word/they’re talking too fast/there’s a concept that you’re missing – “can you talk about that a little more?” will work… magic…… 

1.  u sound smart 
2. if you’ve used up all your “sorry, what?” times this has ppl repeat themselves in different words but they feel good about it
3. often when asked to speak more about a topic ppl explain it more clearly 
4. if you don’t know the word they used but everyone at the table seems to (they don’t), having them talk more about it can help u figure out what that word means 
5. it will also give u more context to figure out if a word/topic/concept was just dropped for Style Points (ie to be Fancie) or if it’s something u actually need to google later
6. EVERY time i have done this in a group conversation, at least one person has said “actually yeah i don’t really know what you’re talking about” so ur probably helping friends
7. ppl really love talking about stuff & you’re basically telling them “i’m super into listening to you talk”

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I’m making flan for the first time and I’m so scared it’s going to turn out bad

there should be a german word for that ambiguous fear of trying a new recipe and not knowing how it will end

The only word close to that right now is stress

not specific enough. we should invent a word. let’s see what should we use as a root. hmm i suggest the prefix -noia from paranoia 

Sounds good but what would the suffix be?

opsie -noia is a suffix, i typoed. for a prefix then, let’s see…something to do with cooking, baking, let me take a look

ok not loving any of these… well maybe bacanoia? how’s that sound?

scratch all of that. i was over thinking. culinary + paranoia = culinoia

there, that’s it. 

cu·li·noi·a

ˈkələˈnoiə

noun

    a feeling of suspicion or anxiety surrounding the outcome of a new recipe.   

Oh my god you are the smartest person I know

That’s really unfortunate

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Here’s the full version:

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when did tumblr collectively decide not to use punctuation like when did this happen why is this a thing

it just looks so smooth I mean look at this sentence flow like a jungle river

ACTUALLY

This is really exciting, linguistically speaking.

Because it’s not true that Tumblr never uses punctuation. But it is true that lack of punctuation has become, itself, a form of punctuation. On Tumblr the lack of punctuation in multisentence-long posts creates the function of rhetorical speech, or speech that is not intended to have an answer, usually in the form of a question. Consider the following two potential posts. Each individual line should be taken as a post:

ugh is there any particular reason people at work have to take these massive handfuls of sauce packets they know they’re not going to use like god put that back we have to pay for that stuff

Ugh. Is there any particular reason people at work have to take these massive handfuls of sauce packets they know they’re not going to use? Like god, put that back. We have to pay for that stuff.

In your head, those two potential posts sound totally different. In the first one I’m ranting about work, and this requires no answer. The second may actually engage you to give an answer about hoarding sauce packets. And if you answer the first post, you will likely do so in the same style. 

Here’s what makes this exciting: the English language has no actual punctuation for rhetorical speech–that is, there are no special marks that specifically indicate “this speech is in the abstract, and requires no answer.” Not only that, it never has. The first written record of English (actually proto-English, predating even Old English) dates to the 400s CE, so we’re talking about 1600 years of having absolutely no marker whatsoever for rhetorical speech.

A group of teens and young adults on a blogging website literally reshaped a deficit a millennium and a half old in our language to fit their language needs. More! This group has agreed on a more or less universal standard for these new rules, which fits the definition of “language.” Which is to say Tumblr English is its own actual, real, separate dialect of the English language, and because it is spoken by people worldwide who have introduced concepts from their own languages into it, it may qualify as a written form of pidgin. 

Tumblr English should literally be treated as its own language, because it does not follow the rules of any form of formal written English, and yet it does have its own consistent internal rules. If you don’t think that’s cool as fuck then I don’t even know what to tell you.

i love this post

This is super cool!

Also idk if this has any relevance whatsoever but if you wanna have an argument inside one tag you cannot have commas in it so that’s a real existing constraint that has forced tumblrites to construct commaless sentences and perhaps this has helped in adopting the custom into posts as well ok I have no idea if this is what’s happened just I think it’s a reasonable assumption there might be a connection

^this.

The tags are absolutely a factor. You want someone to take a breath in the middle of a sentence, you start a new tag. You want to have, as seen here, this removable piece between commas (does it have a name?) – you have 5 tags in this sentence alone. And sometimes you just

pause in the middle of a sentence…

and let your voice

trail away