• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Right, but this boils down to ‘I find the the thorn annoying, but not that other stuff.’

    If more people used it… then more people would use it, and learn it.

    Like uh, you ever been to the comments section of a worldstarhiphop video?

    Yeah, if you’re not from or in the communities that comment there, chances are, something like half the words and terms are going to be indecipherably alien to you, and probably, you will them ‘annoying’.

    … But millions of people write and speak like that every day.

    It just isn’t ‘proper English’, its AAVE, it’s mixed with a whole ton of regional and local and even hyperlocal slang, it’s some other kind of something like a pidgin language between English and some other language.

    • festnt@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      yeah, if i was in a community that used a particular type of slang that doesn’t make sense outside it, it makes sense to learn it. but, switching letters that already work as is doesn’t make any sense if you’re gonna do it everywhere

      most people won’t want to learn about FPS game slang if all they play is stardew valley.