I'm thinking now that a lot of the problem with some of this terminology today is that it's not specific enough, maybe doesn't have enough additions and variants.
You get people essentially saying
"It's only political correctness when I don't like it"
Or
"It's not cultural appropriation when I think it's okay"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 13 July 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link
"tone police"
Essentially anything that means "it's ok when I do it"
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 July 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link
flappy bird getting back to the core, the heart usage
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 13 July 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link
Yeah 'Tone policing' may be a loaded term itself I guess.
Overall, feels like having good control of tone is a great skill, definitely something to try and get locked down if you want to achieve anything, but also maybe something that can be very difficult, considering the varied nature of the 'audience' even when the audience is just another person face to face, and more so when the audience is online (millions of readers all with their own tendencies); and so the expectation that people express themselves with precision and an ear for how it's going to go over may sometimes be questionable imo
All that said I don't disagree that an awful lot of twitter callouts (that I've seen around anyway) have been pretty cloth-eared
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 14 July 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
(Although the large number of people who with great reliability come out with reactions such as 'Black lives matter? What about white lives, why are you saying white lives don't matter???' 'Women's rights, what, don't men have rights???' are themselves heading into supremely cloth-eared territory, no?)
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 14 July 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
they always stick me in the appendix because they don't think i'm the pretty one
― flappy bird, Friday, 14 July 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link
"My arms and wrists are numb." God would people just shut the fuck up already?
― billstevejim, Saturday, 15 July 2017 05:44 (seven years ago) link
Thats a phrase?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 15 July 2017 08:13 (seven years ago) link
Don't forget "my face and lips are numb."
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 15 July 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
i'm old and am sick of political neologisms in the first place. oh, if we use new words maybe people won't notice that they're the same fucking ideas and we don't have to address the problematic implications of those ideas!
more political discourse should be framed in reference to issues surrounding the defenestration of prague. and that's my uncool conservative idea.
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Saturday, 15 July 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
my mouth is drymy face is numbfucked up and spun out in my roomon my own, here we go
― assawoman bay (harbl), Saturday, 15 July 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
How much is Twitter responsible for the current political terminology? I wish people would only use it for links and signal boosting because I hate trying to work out if people are complaining about white women or Wonder Woman (WW acronym).
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 15 July 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link
it all comes from Twitter
― flappy bird, Sunday, 16 July 2017 02:22 (seven years ago) link
an abridged collection:
BOOM!#NotTheOnionShot; chaserI'm just going to leave this here...(((if you're Jewish)))SighYour long read for the day:
― flappy bird, Sunday, 16 July 2017 02:29 (seven years ago) link
BOOM!Shot; chaser
What do these mean? Is the first one just for humorous dramatic effect?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 16 July 2017 03:25 (seven years ago) link
yes, "humor"
― flappy bird, Sunday, 16 July 2017 03:28 (seven years ago) link
at least an attempt at it
― flappy bird, Sunday, 16 July 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link
"nothing burger"
― Number None, Sunday, 16 July 2017 06:08 (seven years ago) link
that one is bizarre because it came out of a specific cable news channel, MSNBC iirc. their attempt to "get on the same page" like Fox does with every issue & talking point...
― flappy bird, Sunday, 16 July 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
I'm at the point where I cant follow what is being said sometimes - and I'm someone who is on the internet 94/7 - but because I dont fuck with Twitter/Insta I think i'm missing this weird "thing becomes a saying after 5.2 seconds" idea.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 16 July 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link
lol i love "94/7" intended or not. gonna use that one if you don't mind
― flappy bird, Monday, 17 July 2017 01:32 (seven years ago) link
Its an old ILXism actually!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 17 July 2017 01:47 (seven years ago) link
(or maybe not but back in the day Ally and co used it a lot and it stuck with me)
sick, it rules, it's in the lexicon
― flappy bird, Monday, 17 July 2017 01:49 (seven years ago) link
"i'm screaming"
― Neanderthal, Monday, 17 July 2017 01:51 (seven years ago) link
OMFG yes that gives me hives, that one.
NO. NO YOU ARE NOT SITTING THERE SCREAMING AT YOUR PC/PHONE. YOU JUST AREN'T.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 17 July 2017 04:23 (seven years ago) link
(and if you are, get help, nothing online is that hysterical)
also the insane abuse and misuse of "literally" before and after it was modified in the fucking dictionary
― flappy bird, Monday, 17 July 2017 04:30 (seven years ago) link
Man, if I hear/see 'Winter is coming' one more time...
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 17 July 2017 06:09 (seven years ago) link
fucking otm, it's like we're all supposed to care about game of thrones
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 17 July 2017 06:16 (seven years ago) link
i feel that way about whovians so ymmv
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 17 July 2017 07:28 (seven years ago) link
yes but the world isn't soaking with constant "the daleks are coming" pissweak memes
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 17 July 2017 07:55 (seven years ago) link
Exactly
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 17 July 2017 09:48 (seven years ago) link
You have to take into account that got is far far better than droo
nb never watched nor read got
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 17 July 2017 10:05 (seven years ago) link
<brand OR product OR politician OR sports team> Nation
e.g. Ford Nation, Fox Nation, Sens Nation, Trump Nation, Truck Nation
― jmm, Monday, 17 July 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
shrinkflation
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 17 July 2017 23:00 (seven years ago) link
Carnation
http://www.auntyflo.com/sites/default/files/styles/contentpage/public/Carnation.jpg?itok=C3kvtbuh
― didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 July 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link
Basically any nicknames for Trump, including the ones frequently used on this board: Two Scoops, Yam--whatever those even refer to. You cannot clown Trump's name. It is self-clowning.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link
― flappy bird, Saturday, July 15, 2017 10:29 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― marcos, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
add to to the list: "my latest:"
― marcos, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 19:17 (seven years ago) link
also "a twitter play in three acts"
basically twitter sucks and it makes me hate people
"Cheeto Jesus"
Gun, meet mouth.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
"i'm dead" or "dead" or any variation of such when attached to like a cute or funny pic/meme
― circa1916, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
deej posted "dead" this morning on a thread about an up-and-coming young rapper and I assumed she had tragically passed away.
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
"Your long read for the day:" is especially infuriating because it's so infantilizing, the "long reads" in question are usually no more than 5,000 words, if that.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 21:07 (seven years ago) link
when someone i hardly know/don't know tells me a 5,000 word article is the only piece of any length i need to read for the whole day, that's a guarantee that i will not read it
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 23:33 (seven years ago) link
"Adult Beverage"
― p.j.b. (pj), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 23:45 (seven years ago) link
y'all must REALLY hate social media
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 23:52 (seven years ago) link
Holy shit, just discovered that the publishing industry has apparently adopted "pbook" to mean "printed book". Fuck that shit
― Dan I., Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link