• @[email protected]
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    351 year ago

    Newspeak is intended to make more complex thoughts impossible. This isn’t newspeak; they’re still talking about the topics, they’re just using dumb filter workarounds.

    Though I do feel it’d be obnoxious to actually talk like this when not needed

    • @Flambo
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      1 year ago

      Though I do feel it’d be obnoxious to actually talk like this when not needed

      on the one hand, yes. on the other hand, my generation piloted the spoken use of “lol”, “lmao”, and their myriad variations in pronunciation. this strikes me as merely upholding that proud tradition.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        I suppose eventually I’ll come around to accepting it, if it persists. But these are not the same; the intent behind them is different. “LOL” is an acronym, not a censorship workaround. Saying it out loud is purely ironic. Maybe the zoomers saying Tiktokisms out loud is also ironic (I’ve personally never heard it directly), but the reason it exists in the first place is stupid

        • @RedAggroBest
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          21 year ago

          At first it was ironic, then it just became a muscle memory response.

          Plenty of people thought text acronyms were dumb and people were even dumber for saying them, even ironically. This is just you being one of those people for the new generation of “kids these days”

          • gila
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            21 year ago

            There is no purpose for using the word ‘grape’ as a substitute for ‘rape’ other than to avoid tiktok moderation. It contains the full original word, therefore doesn’t serve any censorship purpose. Using it this way can even recontextualise the word in a way that trivialises SA. It’s harmful, unlike lol or lmao.

      • @Eylrid
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        41 year ago

        Every generation comes up with new terms that the older generations don’t get. The proud tradition has been going strong since language began.