[ SECRET POST #2512 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2512 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 062 secrets from Secret Submission Post #359.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Being the first commenter (at least as I type) inspired this

[ketita]

Agreed on everything. It drives me absolutely nuts how tumblr has created a whole platform of communication based on not saying anything.

And then every so often I see these pseudo-linguistic self-congratulatory posts about how tumblr has created a creole or a pidgin language or whatever and I just want to hit people with a linguistics book. So you have some internally-used slang, so what. People are just becoming more and more incapable of actually expressing anything at all, this isn't something to be proud of.

Re: Being the first commenter (at least as I type) inspired this

[gondremark]

Alot of corners of the internet develop their own slang but it's slang or a regional variation, or a new batch of words, not creole or budding new language or whatever.

I speak Troper and MMO rather fluently. I also know the lingo that comes with a few vocations and crafts, and I'm familiar with the regional slang for the various places I've lived. It's not a matter of creating new languages, it's just regional or cultural or vocational uses of English, and the internet can sometimes constitute a region or culture. The Tumblrites can't see this, though. I have this theory that when one is typing in Tumblr-speak, one's critical thinking skills and sense of logic are reduced to match the grammar.

Re: Being the first commenter (at least as I type) inspired this

[ketita]

I subscribe to your theory re:grammar affecting cognitive abilities. But then tumblr is a platform that discourages conversation, so I guess it's not very surprising. Virtually every corner of the 'net has some of its own slang and lingo, even speech patterns, but so far tumblr is the most self-congratulatory about it that I've seen.

*sigh* I mourn the death of the blogging platform as a fandom hub.