Perspective: Can we stop relying on the same dozen phrases for online conversations?
By Colin Fleming May 8 at 10:00 AM Anyone who spends time on social media — or merely awake in this world — will recognize the now-standard phraseology of gathering input. It comes in the form of a solicitous apostrophe: “Hive mind! Seeking information on how to humanely euthanize baby birds.”
This is different from what we see with people who think there is either a “then” or a “than,” but not both, and that “penultimate” means “super-duper extra ultimate.” We depend on a cocky form of pushback to give those feelings the brushoff, because we lack the internal language to parse our problems. We become more anxious, more depressed, more detached, while masquerading as people who partake deeply of things.
When everyone speaks the same way, we become lost in plain view, despite craving connection, which is as human as any trait we possess. A bad habit becomes the foundation for an entire social identity. We have fear, too, that if we are seen making more effort than others, we might be ridiculed as “passionate” rather than absolved — and favorably vetted as “chill.”
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