The ‘Crispy R’ and Why R Is the Weirdest Letter
Everyone Online Sounds Like an Absolute Fucking Poseur Lately
Freddie deBoerfreddiedeboer.substack.com
This dialectic is muddy from the get-go, of course. It’s a version of the more familiar hipster trap: over time, the marginal labor of the bohemian experimentalist and taste-maker is swallowed up by the smug cartoon of the in-the-know consumer clone. But the near inevitability of this process also suggests that the first hipster was already part of... See more
Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal
We all make linguistic decisions like this all the time. Sometimes, we decide to align ourselves with the existing holders of power by talking like they do, so we can seem rich or educated or upwardly mobile. Sometimes, we decide to align ourselves with particular less powerful groups, to show that we belong and to seem cool, antiauthoritarian, or
... See moreGretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
the weak ties introduce the new forms