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IdleRich

IdleRich
We can - and do - do without concepts just fine on the whole. It's nice when some clever person expresses something in a concise way, but it's rarely anything new and is open to abuse when it becomes popular, or just a crutch for lazy thinking.
Analogies are like this too. Or I think they are particularly useful for demagoguery in that you can pick something that points to an obvious conclusion and which looks like something else but isn't really analogous in the crucial part.

For example this is one I've seen a few times

#Socialism is like a mousetrap.
It works because the mouse doesn't understand why the cheese is free.
Don't be a mouse.

Cos yeah the free cheese is a trap. So if socialism is analogous to a mousetrap then yeah, you shouldn't accept any state handouts... but it's a big If, in fact I think that's the whole argument. So that quote above does nothing towards proving it, but I think it kinda looks clever/effective if you don't think about it.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
The whole culture of internet buzzwords including woke and all the 'look how good I am!' posturing is fucking sick and about as unwoke as you can get. There was this thing back in the day called being a decent human being, and there was no need to talk about it, it was simply understood. The culture right now feels like some GDR Stasi shit where everyone's spying on each other and reporting all dissent to the authorities, except the authorities have been replaced the frothing mob who are rabid with blood lust and can't wait for the next pile on. Sick!
Also woke the word is a stunningly ugly one, in fact I'd say hideous, if it was a person it would be Ian Dowie
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
"main character energy" and "hero ingredient" are a couple of recent ones I've noticed getting used a lot
Yep - and NPC (Non Player Character) which goes with it.

Speaking of "energy" - the other day Greta of all people famously said Andrew Tate had "small dick energy". If she'd simply said "small dick" that would be body shaming and a big no-no, but cos energy on the end she wasn't actually doing that - except as far as I can tell she was really.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I think there are other ones like that where you take an unacceptable insult and modify it so you're not actually saying it, but you get to use the forbidden word.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Yep - and NPC (Non Player Character) which goes with it.

Speaking of "energy" - the other day Greta of all people famously said Andrew Tate had "small dick energy". If she'd simply said "small dick" that would be body shaming and a big no-no, but cos energy on the end she wasn't actually doing that - except as far as I can tell she was really.
Oh you all beat me to this
 

shakahislop

Well-known member
part of the initial hook for me with grime was all the new vocabulary. trying to figure it out. what are they on about when they say they're going to shank someone. making p, that was a good one. kotched it. roadman, the endz. on road. no-one i knew spoke anything like that and, more to the point, the idea that there were people my age who just seemed to be making up new words and concepts was an early pointer towards new possibilities, an outside world, in fact more accurately a parallel world. i had to try to work out what they meant from the context.
 

shakahislop

Well-known member
that is half of what's going on with what you might call 'online communities'. the new racists and the woke, the polyamorous, the pick-up artists, the misogynists and the feminists. or the credit card churners and camera enthusiasts. people who are really into 'micromobility', people who got so into IS that they wanted to fight for the cause. the vocabulary is part of the excitement, reading all this stuff and coming out with a new set of words to use for various purposes. descriptive purposes but also rhetorical ones. dirty words, clean words, ways to throw shit at people so that it sticks. all kinds of connotations.
 
part of the initial hook for me with grime was all the new vocabulary. trying to figure it out. what are they on about when they say they're going to shank someone. making p, that was a good one. kotched it. roadman, the endz. on road. no-one i knew spoke anything like that and, more to the point, the idea that there were people my age who just seemed to be making up new words and concepts was an early pointer towards new possibilities, an outside world, in fact more accurately a parallel world. i had to try to work out what they meant from the context.
the slang is one of the best things about living in london still
 
I was talking before about how at the macro level, stylistically.. working class slang is fascinating and so innovative . but for individuals it can be a very limiting thing , forcing a kind of role play. and its something you see at the other end with extremely posh RP. it narrows expression. royal or road man. or maybe im talking shit i dont know what do you think?
 

pattycakes_

Can turn naughty
I feel like this rearranging of language is the same things cults do to hypnotize their members. It creates a strange jarring effect in your mind when your first hear it but over time you get used to it and slowly start to feel like you've left the 'normal' world behind. Probably a way to alienate them from the outside world and make them feel like they're part of something different/special. I wonder if the corporate world have read the same guide books and after years of us all being exposed to this shit it it's become every day vernacular. Plus that net born drive to be the one who comes up with a new trending hashtag or whatever
 

pattycakes_

Can turn naughty
At least you'd get a feeling of belonging in a cult. I feel like all this shit does is slowly make us feel more and more adrift
 
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