{"id":33502,"date":"2013-12-19T23:44:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T23:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/were-taking-a-group-of-people-who-have-insider\/"},"modified":"2013-12-19T23:44:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T23:44:24","slug":"were-taking-a-group-of-people-who-have-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/were-taking-a-group-of-people-who-have-insider\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>we\u2019re taking a group of people who have insider knowledge of the English language (or at least a good grasp of it) and placing them in a new, unfamiliar, virtual space. This space introduces visual aids to language in the form of photos and gifs, the ability to comment on someone else\u2019s text in a reblog and the ability to communicate a lot of information in very few words using hashtags. We also see the creation of tone in a toneless medium. In order to simulate conversational patterns in writing we SHOUT WHEN WE\u2019RE SUPER EXCITED or *psssst whisper when we\u2019re pretending to tell someone a secret while perfectly aware that anyone on the internet can read what we\u2019re saying.* slash the coolest bit tho is that u can like ironically forgo all capitalization and punctuation just write in a weird speech pattern its ok everyone will still understand maybe it even helps read the text more quickly because nothing is interrupting the flow of words<\/p>\n<p>\nIn short, this dialect results when people who already share a language are given new tools. The result isn\u2019t a butchering of English language but a creative experiment with it. Am I claiming that the Internet as a whole is operating on a level of postmodernism that would make Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon seem like novices? maybe i am maybe im not u punk wut of it like who r u to tell me otherwise<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Tia Baheri: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2013\/11\/20\/yes-you-can-even\/view-all\/\" title=\"Yes you can even\">Your Ability to Can Even: A Defense of Internet Linguistics<\/a>&ldquo; | The Toast<\/p>\n<p>Totally worth reading the whole article, especially the part on Tumblr and gender.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/i-come-by-it-honestly.tumblr.com\/\">i-come-by-it-honestly<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Internet linguistics is super fascinating to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mumblingsage.tumblr.com\/\">mumblingsage<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This whole article is absolutely fascinating. As someone who is older than the average tumblr user, and someone who can be a bit of a grammar freak, it took me a long time to get used to the Tumblrisms, but now I find them incredibly useful.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/porcupine-girl.tumblr.com\/\">porcupine-girl<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>such feels<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we\u2019re taking a group of people who have insider knowledge of the English language (or at least a good grasp of it) and placing them in a new, unfamiliar, virtual space. 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