• Aeao@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Knock knock

    Who’s there

    To

    To who?

    It’s to whom actually.

    Yes as long as what you’re saying makes sense that’s all that matters. Language is just the sound you make to communicate the idea in your head to someone else.

    The opposite tho is names. I’m Michael. Not Mike. It doesn’t offended me to be called Mike but that’s not the sound your face needs to make to get my attention. It’s a different sound.

    But for just talking… “I stop speak right but you can hold it, then where’s the rub?”

    I actually would play around by calling “money” different things. See how weird I could get. “Bucks” fine. Doodlyfranks? In context it works just fine. You can call money anything. Since fallout I regularly say “I’m short on caps” no one’s ever questioned it.

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        1 hour ago

        Excellent example of how names work. It’s not about if I’m annoyed or not. If you want to get my attention you have to flap your meat together and blow air thru it this way (the meat people story if you haven’t heard that. It’s great)

        I reply with classical works of the philosopher Monty python

        “Is you wife a goer, know what I mean, I bet she does I bet she does”

        Language has always fascinated me. Clown too. Not party but the ones who don’t talk but communicate ideas thru body language and face make up. Yes the makeup serves a practical communicative purpose.