Admiral Memo @AdmiralMemo@mastodon.social
I'm cool and not very private. Ask me anything.
@DialMforMara I had an idea that I know I am absolutely not qualified to study, so I thought I'd throw it your way. The question is "Do linguists who are generally of a descriptivist attitude become more prescriptivist when dealing with 'problematic' words and phrases?" For example, when people use "retarded" to mean "stupid," or "triggered" to mean "relatively annoyed," are they more likely to say "That's how language is evolving," or will they take a stance on how words "should" be used?
If you don't know, every year I work with the charity marathon over at https://desertbus.org/ to do a poster for the event, which raises money for children's hospitals.
As this nerdy week-long marathon happens (starting Nov. 17th this year!) I watch the entire thing and draw the silly stuff they do on stream to fill up the poster.
They're on their 11th year of doing this, and I've already started on the poster. You can see below the one I did for Desrert Bus 9, and the one I just started for Desert Bus 11!
Tune in, spread the word, and donate if you can. Or just watch, I have a tun of fun seeing it each year!
My favorite Canadian #gamers are doing their yearly Child's Play stream.
#desertbus
Watch desertbus with me on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/desertbus?sr=a
My middle-aged self turned up, full of advice and instructions. I nodded along.
My old self had already warned me, and told me to ignore it.
#MicroFiction #TootFic
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When I joined this place, it had me following the server admin by default.
Is this MySpace?
@AdmiralMemo I am still missing lists period. They are the core experience of Twitter for me and since the webapp already looks like tweetdeck, I really want my lists and columns
@AdmiralMemo click your name above the post box, click the following / followers bits.
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One big gripe with Mastodon: can't easily find the list of who I'm following/who follows me.
So I've decided to come back here to check it out again. It's pretty chill, as it was before.
Is this a thing?
