I’ve repeatedly found that when I find someone annoying on Twitter, if I see a video of them for like a couple of minutes, I typically find that, oh, they just… talk like that
a lot of weird tweets are actually just bad translations
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generally speaking people are often way squishier, awkwarder, cuter, sillier, funnier on video than in text, unless they make the effort to deliberately translate all of that into the text
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mentioned to me recently that said something about how people who grew up on the internet in a specific way learned how to partly do nonverbal communication through text in a way that other people don’t by default and that resonates with me
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yea linguistics tumblr used to nerd out about this hard - deliberate misspellings, messing with punctuation,,, all sorts of nuance
it reduces our error/misunderstanding rate amongst each other, which allows us to coordinate better than normies think is possible
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“tumblr dialect” is a really good way of putting it, love this stuff. there are reddit dialects, twitter dialects, whole explosion of languaging
hacker news loves it when you Add Citations like so
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Every community has certain things the gatekeepers look out for - certain words and stylings [1]. I haven’t posted in Hacker News for a few years [2] but those folks were suckers for footnotes.
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[1] http blah blah link to style guide
[2] about four years, give or take.
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"IANAL"
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