2017: Indigenous languages are dying, meanwhile the emoji dialects of even two neighboring slacks are becoming mutually incomprehensible
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it's an exciting time to be into linguistics and semiotics
honestly I'd probably hated them a lot less if they didn't remind me of the disgusting animated monstrosities from mid-00s
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Xe pulls a plastic water bottle from xe workpile. Xem each have piles at xir sorting stations, to sort Supplies, once known as landfills
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The bottle was bought, used, disposed. To xe, its shape was remarkable. It had been crushed, yes, but by hand. Xem had crushed it, long ago
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Whichever xem had crushed it, why had xem done it? Had it been a thoughtful act, or id-ish? Xe sorted it into pile H4 -> clearplast w/ lid