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satvikpendem 38 minutes ago [-]
I read both books too and when I saw the title they're what it reminded me of and then it was confirmed when I clicked the link, so it's nice to predict something then be right.
I would definitely recommend people to read them, in the order of their publishing, as internet speak changes fast enough to have a difference between 2019 and 2025.
PaulHoule 1 hours ago [-]
My son would point out that the "incel cesspool" actually absorbed a lot of its vocabulary from 4chan and other "manosphere" spaces and there are a lot of people who talk that way who are not incels.
For instance that Clavicular guy who was profiled in the New York Times claims he is having sex and it seems he was actually "dating" a female influencer when he was being interviewed by an NYT reporter.
satvikpendem 35 minutes ago [-]
Yes, Algospeak goes through this. It's funny to see words like mogging or looksmaxxing be common internet parlance, it's as if the terms lose their toxic power through widespread usage, just as I recall the story of the KKK having their secrets leaked via a radio program such that kids started talking about "grand wizards" for fun [0].
I know this is going to sound like an "old man yells at cloud" moment, but I cannot get over the number of people using "cause" as a replacement for "because."
Maybe it was my time spent in the book publishing industry, but it causes me pain every time I see it.
It's a contraction to 'cause just with the apostrophe elided. Everyone knows what they mean and knows that this cause is different than the other verb or noun "cause." I also sometimes use its instead of it's in text because it's too annoying to fix the autocorrected (or not) spelling on a phone keyboard, not because I don't know the difference.
blacksmith_tb 38 minutes ago [-]
Not really different from "just cuz" is it? Though I suppose it is a little worse, given that it's a different word, not an obvious contraction.
It doesn't make me want to explode like "pacific" instead of "specific" does...
I would definitely recommend people to read them, in the order of their publishing, as internet speak changes fast enough to have a difference between 2019 and 2025.
For instance that Clavicular guy who was profiled in the New York Times claims he is having sex and it seems he was actually "dating" a female influencer when he was being interviewed by an NYT reporter.
[0] PDF warning - https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-prese...
Maybe it was my time spent in the book publishing industry, but it causes me pain every time I see it.
The horror: https://x.com/search?q=cause&src=typed_query&f=live
It doesn't make me want to explode like "pacific" instead of "specific" does...