Honestly, you might enjoy the PopSci book Because Internet it’s by a linguist that studies neologisms and emerging language patterns as her main focus, focusing specifically on the growth of casual informal language that has only been made possible by The Internet
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https://www.openchaos.dev/#votes is kinda similar to, but weekly instead (voted for submissions that automatically get merged)
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I would say that most aren't, but some definitely are
It's a study of both the past and the present, many study both, many study just one, some flip-flop between
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There's this thing in linguistics, casual language requires backchanneling - to respond back with either short utterances that show you understand, or to show confusion and then ask for clarity
The reason formal language is formalised, as in the shit used in essays, is that there is no easy way to say "what did you mean?" - the feedback loop is far too slow for that process and by the point the author(s) get to respond they likely forget what they meant as well
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They actually are the reverse of irked, cause like an archaeologist finding a new artefact, they find the cool thing of evidence of the shift of language.
Not errors, evidence of change
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Probably the overuse of superfluous grammar that's throwing people off tbh. You should research the idea of Contextual Language to fix that
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Noun
(linguistics) The practice of prescribing idealistic norms, as opposed to describing realistic forms, of linguistic usage.
E.g.
- Most linguists in this age believe that prescriptivism is outmoded and should no longer be used
- Most linguists in this age believe that descriptivism is a more accurate model of language than prescriptivism
- Most linguists in this age believe that “correcting” language unnecessarily is actively harmful, as it stifles the evolution of a living growing thing, which prescriptivism fails to accurately model
- Most linguists in this age agree the more important factor is CONTEXT, that you should use the correct language style for the context, whereas prescriptivism falls flat as it ignores context. Contextual Language is the idea that you use a different style of language talking to your boss then you do to your friend, then you do to your best friend, than you do to a stranger
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I mean various things neal has done become famous enough to be on TV
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Ooh nice, a good update from Microsoft for once
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TL;DR - sponsored article disguising as an opinion piece, mentions briefly the many many problems with it, but ends with "I trust my corporate overlords to never use my data for evil"
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there’s some grammatical differences, the same as there are between American and British, just the intelligibility is mostly high.
“je parlons” feels very old fashioned and flowery to modern french french, but it’s seen as normal in quebecois
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Somerset countryside, they’re unintelligible.
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Folks who work the Reduced Work Week or Compressed Work Week, how has it effected your life?
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Reduced Work Week and Compressed Work Week are a (relatively) new concept that some Annualised Hours Contract workplaces are doing
Reduced: You work 4 days of 7.5 hours, adding up to 30 hours weekly, you get paid the same as if you worked 5 days of 7.5 hours (37.5 hours)
Compressed: You work 4 days of 9.5 hours, adding up to 37.5 hours weekly, you get paid the same as if you worked 5 days of 7.5 hours (37.5 hours)
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Folks who work the Reduced Work Week or Compressed Work Week, how has it effected your life?
Reduced Work Week and Compressed Work Week are a (relatively) new concept that some Annualised Hours Contract workplaces are doing
Reduced: You work 4 days of 7.5 hours, adding up to 30 hours weekly, you get paid the same as if you worked 5 days of 7.5 hours (37.5 hours)
Compressed: You work 4 days of 9.5 hours, adding up to 37.5 hours weekly, you get paid the same as if you worked 5 days of 7.5 hours (37.5 hours)
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Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things
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[Meta] Ban unsubstantiated rumours?
Can we please ban posts that are little more than unsubstantiated rumours?
Keep seeing posts that are fully just “I heard from a guy that heard from a friend who heard from a co-worker that HL3 comes out with the Steam Machine” as the full post
Sometimes links to whole “news” (used very fucking loosely) articles that are the exact same thing
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Happy Public Domain Day everyone
Direct quote from the page:
Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[2]
On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon
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Firefox still at least have a far far far more permissive OSS license than Chromium, so I’d say stick with that
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If it’s installed and I have to turn it off, then it’s intrusive. Don’t bullshit me
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Waterfox, Librewolf, Ironfox
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noai.duckduckgo.com - yes you can
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There won’t be
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That’s piss easy, it’s called a web scraper
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Personally, I equate most people who oppose LLMs with the Luddite movement.
Ah, so you see them as intentionally misrepresented by the media, and not fighting progress but instead fighting against the unsafe standards of the time?
Yeah it makes sense, you obviously knew that already as you’re so knowledgeable
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Ha, I had no idea!
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Dec 12, 2025
Some folks just when high on weed and/or bored will try typing random URLs to see if they’re anything
(I was one of those back when I was a teen)
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Sounds like you fucked up, tbh, you should’ve bought the domain even if not intending to use it, just for brand safety
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Annoyingly, people are more likely to “blind guess” at .com than .gov, just cause there’s more of them
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Ah you’ve fallen for the oldest trick in the book, may interest you in this $6 bill?
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Dec 04, 2025
That you need a Credit Score
They’ve only existed since the 80s, but they’re now seen as essential, and unlikely to go away
But they don’t need to exist, and are actively harmful to people, and often just straight-up incorrect
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!amitheasshole@lemmy.world
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Ur mum’s pussy
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