"tweeted out"
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 15 September 2017 23:58 (seven years ago) link
basically fuck every superfluous preposition
Retcon/retconned. Is Twin Peaks to blame for the resurgance of this? I acknowledge the word serves a purpose, it's just so damn ugly a word. And it seems to be everywhere right now.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
it has always been omnipresent in fandoms
― Mordy, Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:15 (seven years ago) link
Twin Peaks must have been my first brush with the word. Not a comic reader, nor have I been attached to any kind of "fandom". Just think it's an extremely ugly word to use.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
it's a shitty word but it seems to do the job of no other word ("he totally retconned laura" v "he totally altered laura's continuity retroactively")
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:20 (seven years ago) link
I wouldn't know of a better word for what it's trying to convey, it's just such an ugly combination of two abbreviated words merged.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:25 (seven years ago) link
repurposed
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:38 (seven years ago) link
might work for retcon
worse yet, "praxis" when you can just say "practice"
I had to resist doing this earlier today. My inner critic was a little bit of a dick about it, too
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:43 (seven years ago) link
i knew "retcon" from comics internet fandom in the early 90s but my assumption is that it is much older, and most likely comes from star trek. agree that it's ugly and it has this Newspeak quality where it just does not roll off the tongue whatsoever in real life, even if it works very efficiently as a character-saving noun and verb on Usenet. but it does describe something.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
I thought it was from Dr. Who / Torchwood. Shows what I know.
― Tegumai Bopsulai (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 16 September 2017 02:15 (seven years ago) link
'chow down' has to be one of my most hated expressions
― kinder, Saturday, 16 September 2017 07:18 (seven years ago) link
In that case you definitely shouldn't watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAgAeuQGySw
― JRN, Saturday, 16 September 2017 07:39 (seven years ago) link
Twin peaks is more like proactive discontinuity anyway
― streeps of range (wins), Saturday, 16 September 2017 08:02 (seven years ago) link
"folx" instead of "folks" in twitter social justice circles is ... annoying
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
Not really a sj thing?
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
Also just a thing for any ks, cs, cks word
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
I bought some comix for 50 bux -- an SJW
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
Engaging with the issues
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Tuesday, September 19, 2017 1:35 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk i see it used as a common abbreviation too but significantly more among the sj folks i know
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/05/09/womyn-wimmin-and-other-folx/vjhPn82ITGgCCbE12iNn1N/story.html
Maybe in activist circles, they add the x to folx to make it similar to latinx? It would be stupid, because the word 'folks' is already gender-neutral, but pretty much everything is stupid these days.
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
uh, exactly what marcos just posted.
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
do a twitter search for "folx" and it is almost all social justice-oriented tweets
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
That's because it's fucking Twitter
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
true
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link
sleepingbag wrote this on thread Ideas for ILX on board I Love Everything on 20-May-2017
I Love Trump board, for all the folx who love discussing US President Donald Trump every hour of every day
Supercreditor (Dr Morbius) wrote this on thread Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible on board I Love Everything on 20-May-2017
u folx don't take any time off from this? live a little
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
Literally 1st page of search results, maybe the 2 posters least concerned w social justice
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
Ahem
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
Insert inverted commas where necessary obv
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
A "he" m
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
legos
afaict this is an american idiocy
― ogmor, Sunday, 24 September 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
^^^^
― Number None, Sunday, 24 September 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link
Surely good food procured from a bar can be described as something other than 'elevated pub grub'
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 24 September 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
partitive "lego" just makes me feel like they're something I can eat
― Dan I., Monday, 25 September 2017 00:46 (seven years ago) link
"Gaslighting" whenever used beyond its original meaning. Actual gaslighting requires some kind of close relationship. It's not something the media or public figures do or that people do to public figures.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 25 September 2017 00:53 (seven years ago) link
I'd rather "pub grub" than "gastro pub" which is bizarre and makes me think of food poisoning.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 25 September 2017 00:59 (seven years ago) link
agreed, gastro is a bit... anatomical
― rip van wanko, Monday, 25 September 2017 03:17 (seven years ago) link
Yeah same, it makes me picture a pub located within someone's innards.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 25 September 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link
pub that gives you diarrhea
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 September 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link
Only mildly annoying, but 31% of all sports highlights nowadays must have an announcer screaming "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" overtop.
― clemenza, Monday, 25 September 2017 03:41 (seven years ago) link
Political commentators using the South Park underwear gnome joke. Why did this become a big thing in 2017?
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 September 2017 12:44 (seven years ago) link
our culture needs more metaphors for situations with strong action but no clear path to success
― mh, Monday, 25 September 2017 13:59 (seven years ago) link
shock and awe
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 September 2017 14:02 (seven years ago) link
pretty much every Trump alt-name meme is dumb (orange blah blah etc.) but none is more grating or unfunny than "2 Scoops"
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, 9 October 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
agreed
although "Yam" runs it close
― Number None, Monday, 9 October 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
Honestly "President Trump" is much funnier than anything they can come up with.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, 9 October 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
i always try to say President Trump whenever i can bc i feel like the situation is v serious and we should be v clear about what that situation is
― Mordy, Monday, 9 October 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
The mind always steers the mouse clicking finger to FP when seeing 'Drumpf', '2 scoops' or 'Yam' (hi Morbs). Fortunately the sole ilxor using 'Turnip' seems to have called it quits.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 9 October 2017 22:28 (seven years ago) link