#i kinda like playing observer when it comes to linguistic trends - watching it all w/ ongoing curiosity/fascination

[soysaucevictim]

This has been talked to death so I aint gonna enable RBs here.

But one of the amusing dimensions about the /hj tone indicator to me... is that language inherently has a lot of contradictory ambiguity to it. We even have a word for that, contronyms. (Which just delights me so much as a thing.)

It's the bread and butter of wordplay, of coded speech, of puns, of double entendres, of euphemisms, and dysphemisms... which I just think is fascinating mostly from a descriptivist perspective.

Sometimes being obtuse is the goal. And sometimes redundancy is intentional.

(That said, it's one I don't really like using in practice. It's often time a leap of faith, trusting interlocutor to pick up what you're putting down with that one.)