If I notice myself writing too much like myself, I try to tweak it. I noticed I use "just" a lot and started hacking away at it. I sometimes start sentences with "Case in point," and stopped myself doing it again earlier in the thread.
Yeah, I think Barty said he noticed himself using it a lot too. It worms its way between the words and you end up with phrases like "It's just this..." as opposed to "It's this...".
It makes you wonder how much of a person makes them unique.
This is something I pick up on in my own language. I'm conscious of constantly referring to "I", but I also don't want to speak for everyone else so I'm in two minds about referring to "we" or "you" in that way.
If you get it from someone else, can it ever be sincere? You're always copying what they did first. It's not an original expression.
You're not just learning the gesture. You're learning the way you are supposed to feel in the situation. You reverse engineer the affect by enacting the gesture
I don't know if anyone's noticed but I deliberately confuse I and we and speak as if I were the actual forum sometimes for a laugh
This was something I struggled with re: music a while back.Yeah everything has to be somewhat of a recombination.
I definitely struggle with new music atm, but it's extended to any music at all for the time being. The process of listening to it feels like it requires a lot of effort and it's much nicer to just listen to nothing at all. I said something in another thread about rather than being sick of new music or new arrangements of familiar elements, I'm sick of the elements themselves. I'm sick of drums and synths and guitars and voices and so on.
We do this all the time
Genetic difference compounded by circumstantial/environmental difference. As far as I can tell, that accounts for literally everything variable among humans. Of course, I would argue against solidifying such a belief, especially one as drastic and unromantic as that.It makes you wonder how much of a person makes them unique.
This is something I pick up on in my own language. I'm conscious of constantly referring to "I", but I also don't want to speak for everyone else so I'm in two minds about referring to "we" or "you" in that way.