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In addition to being hilarious, this tweet is an example of the new writing styles and conventions we take for granted on Twitter. No caps and no full stops for speed. Conversational phrases that also adjust packing, “like”, “my dude”.
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constellations are a bit of a stretch like “i’m a lion” my dude you’re a triangle
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I haven’t seen it discussed anywhere. (Linguists must be discussing this in their circles, I guess.) But it’s awesome. People are just doing it. Some people are so good at this, it’s beautiful to watch.
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Of course there’s the usual irony that a lot of the freshest and most carefully turned writing here reads as “badly written“ if you judge it as standard written English. But actually, it’s various effective innovations ARE what make it good writing.
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But what’s really puzzling to me about jokes on twitter is that I spent years performing comedy and sweating every detail of this kind of thing and it almost never occurs to me to tweet joke on twitter. Huh. I wonder why not. 🤔
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