#misuse of language

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Credit to: Ian Sanders for the post.

I love this

[vanda-maksimova]

Starting to understand why people don't bother with adding these.

No modifier = all

Most = all

Some = all

A few = all

Honestly I'd give up too.

English speakers learn your language please, I'm Russian and do better with this.

[schemelin]

non-verbal "I Hate It In Here" Lone Wanderer just wants her dad back.

[lilbirdyart]

Clewis 🤝 Idioms

[locked-in-or-tweaking]

ok it is time

gather round everybody

i am pretty happy with all of these options tbh so you guys can decide.

although if a really good new one gets suggested during this poll i might run it against the winner

[transgwender616]

Twink is the most misused and abused word in the entire English language.

[gwynbleiddyn]

i am loathe to share beeb articles but this is actually a good one about using celtic cultures in fantasy with a focus on cymraeg that taps a little into my frustration with a lot of names and concepts that i see floating around

[vent-mon-hyperespace]

Anakin: Je vais vous tuer!

Obi-Wan: What did you just say?

Anakin: I enjoy learning from you.

Obi-Wan, unsure: I hope so—

Anakin: Je te déteste.

[evviejo]

i've been slowly ploughing through essays that people wrote as part of the mock exams we held at the school where i work, and with each and every single piece of writing i grade, the urge to murder someone grows

i mean, yes, they are learners, they are doing their best, and yes, the topics they were given were a little silly

but if you insist on taking a c1 level cambridge english exam in the next few months, i would highly recommend learning how to use the present simple and that information and advice are uncountable nouns

for fuck's sake

[giratina-and-the-skys-bouquet]

[youling-the-ghost]

I've been reading up on NLP, which is basically a type of AI that deals with understanding and generating natural human speech, and I can't help but picturing it as a little autistic kid.

like it has to form an algorithm to understand the underlying intentions of humans' words? it has to deliberately separate speech into smaller chunks and process them individually? it gets confused when words have ambiguous meanings? it struggles with idioms and proverbs? it tends to take things too literally? tell me that's not an autistic child trying to communicate with others.

[valenteal]

Has anyone else noticed the word “infantilizing” is get thrown around a lot? Like, in situations where it does not apply.

Infantilizing is to treat a person as a child or in a way which denies their maturity in age or experience according to the dictionary definition. It is something done to someone. I don’t understand why people are using it in terms of a piece of media, particularly one that is about the validity of its character’s choice no matter what age they are, or a pop star who is expressing herself as an adult who makes decisions on her own.

It’s stupid. I’m seeing it used not as an acknowledgment of someone’s maturity and independence but as a way to cast doubt on it where it otherwise wouldn’t be. By saying that someone or something is being infantilized when they aren’t… whoever’s doing that is the one infantilizing them, no matter how they phrase it.

Being infantilized is having your agency taken away or having your maturity questioned and all your decisions made for you. It has nothing to do with what you wear or what choices you make. It is something done to you, by yourself or those around you, usually those around you.

It’s often done to the elderly once they reach the point where they can’t take care of themselves on their own. It’s done in abusive relationships as a way to keep someone dependent. It’s done to the mentally ill. It’s done to people with disabilities.

Infantilizing someone literally means treating them like an infant, incapable making decisions or caring for themselves. It is not… whatever the hell else people think it is, not that the people misusing it seem to have clear idea of what they mean by it either…

[audaciousevolution]

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[blessedcactus]

Today is the day!!! That said it sucks I woke up at 5am...I hope to rest as soon as my second appointment is over, though. Rn, outside of being tired and the usual, I am not so bad, so I also hope that stays until after my appointment!

[tired-fandom-ndn]

I don't usually give a crap about grammar but I DO think it's important to try to show the bare minimum of thoughtfulness and respect when using words from languages that are from marginalized ethnic groups or often appropriated from in your own culture, especially when those words are often misused in harmful ways.

[porcellune]

i kinda hate now that the like? homophobic excuse for hating/disliking gay ships of "i see them as friends" "i see them as brothers" "i see them as a teacher/student relationship despite them being close in age" "i see the older one as fatherly to the younger one" has become, like, "woke" way of dismissing gay ships in fandom. esp on tiktok

like the fact that ive seen new overwatch fans say roadrat's age gap is too large and men should just be able to be friends/i think roadhog is fatherly to junkrat so its "icky" is. Wild.

and its always from someone who instead ships those characters in a mediocre het pairing instead