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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every time an essay of mine gets traction there are people who get angry because of how I don't capitalize because they think it's "harder to read" or like "if the author is this lazy I won't read it" and
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what I actually am doing is deliberately contributing my small part to the normalization of a lower register of written english. joked before (with appropriate self-effacing tone) I'm just cervantes writing in the vernacular
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