#unfortunately in the absence of a shared technical grounding people start attempting to reinvent the wheel clumsily and poorly
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#if you Really wanted to you could say ‘chat when there is not in fact a chat’ as invocation to an absent third party is apostrophe #but that is its whole own thing (via catilinas)
I keep seeing the "chat is a fourth person pronoun" post and it's getting increasingly hard to avoid starting discourse in the notes of it. chat I don't think they know what these linguistics terms they're using mean
#right like. is there something mildly interesting/troubling abt ppl habitually explicitly apostrophizing an imagined audience. sure.#but anything notable there is happening on the level of like. quasitheatrical ideas about Audience‚ not on a linguistic level#linguistically what's happening there is totally straightforward and unremarkable#unfortunately in the absence of a shared technical grounding people start attempting to reinvent the wheel clumsily and poorly#and then getting mad when other people are like 'actually we already figured out how wheels work and this isn't how'#and it's a shame bc like. the interest in Thinking Abt Things is good actually!#sure wish we could hook it up to the wheels we've already built and get it to actually take us somewhere real!#language#audience
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