@futurebird @Icosaprism @gwinizhdu @isomorphismes fast decoding of tiny pieces of neologisms into tropes has been a strange skill to pick up
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Replying to @graveolens
@graveolens There isn't one great lexicon as much as there was in the past. Marginalized voices are louder.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @futurebird
@futurebird and also suppress dissent. if the flavor of language use is homogenous, then so to will the things people express in it.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @graveolens
@graveolens Maybe. I don't know if I buy that language limits thought the way a set of logical sentences and their deductive closure would.5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @futurebird
@futurebird habits turn people into for loops, print statements in their expression and are contrary to linguistic self-distinguishment2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @graveolens
@graveolens Well, here is a twist. Some of the neologisms that the times set is fretting about are also very good at conveying ideas.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @futurebird
@futurebird I'm not kvetching about those. Maybe I just like my language squarklier then the flavor of the generic culture.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @graveolens
@graveolens There is no generic culture. It's dead. Only David Brooks is left to tend the hollow husk. He thinks it's alive, of course.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@futurebird or, arrgh, maybe I mean where language is a dead dry husk, gray and mote-filled and drab and plain. I run away from that.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
@futurebird oh, and go look at my recent videos on facebook. there's one reminiscent of a heartbeat
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