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Is this writing style the new millennial version of leetspeak or something? I find it extremely immature sounding, very grating, not funny at all.
by smlacy 8y ago
Is this writing style the new millennial version of leetspeak or something?
I find it extremely immature sounding, very grating, not funny at all.
- commandlinefan 8y agoIf it was meant ironically, then it was funny. Otherwise, it's disturbing.
- ben0x539 8y agoSpeaking as a millennial regularly using a handful of different social media apps, I don't feel like the writing style is particularly out-of-the-ordinary
- cosinetau 8y agoThat's the trouble with cultural axioms.
- walterbell 8y agoMore importantly, what cultural influences lead to this style of communication? It normalizes a non-deterministic software universe with lowered expectations of correctness.
- exolymph 8y agoI believe the cultural influence is called "having a sense of humor"
- walterbell 8y agoHere is a linguistic precedent, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-07-20/features/0507190293_1_clueless-slang-amy-heckerling http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-07-20/features/05071... ”Few words have raised the ire of language purists the way the quotative "like" has in the years since "Clueless." Any tirade about the state of the language is sure to say something about "like" as a plague on the language ... "Older people have always criticized new words and [ways of speaking]," Fought says. "Go back to the 1950s to `scram' and `be cool,' and people were saying, `The youth are ruining the language.' I'm sure if you go back to Shakespeare's time, people were saying, `sooth sounds so bad, you really should say forsooth.'"
- egypturnash 8y agoWorking as desigigned, if you are An Old.
- samfriedman 8y agoIf it's a new millennial anything, it's the sarcastic/ironic way people talk when trying to get across that they really don't care that much about whatever it is they're doing. I've seen that kind of humorous/nonsensical code and comments before on small projects that are made mostly as a throwaway tool, or projects that are an intentionally poor example of how to implement something for laughs.
- intuitionist 8y ago“Made mostly as a throwaway tool” pretty much hits the nail on the head. (I’m a twitter friend of Elias’ who saw how it went down.) Heaven forbid someone would amuse themself while hacking together a script for a friend.
- femiagbabiaka 8y agoSubcultures always have a lingua franca for themselves. For example, people regularly browsing HN do their best to sound as pedantic as possible at all times.
- SimbaOnSteroids 8y agoWait I thought that was in the rules.
- simongr3dal 8y agoWell actually, those are called guidelines.
- coolsunglasses 8y agoYour blog 404s bud
- smlacy 8y agoSo?
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- coolsunglasses 8y agoYou're tone-policing a person of color's jokey style in a jokey project under the guise of professionalism and you can't keep your own blog that you link from HN and GitHub up. You are the personification of why a lot of people don't like this community.
- Reedx 8y agoAgreed, but a millennial can be over 30 years old. This sounds like they're emulating a 10 year old trying to be edgy.
- Angostura 8y agoI just took it as self-deprecation.
- zawerf 8y agoYou should look up the guy who built YOLO (an object detector with 1700 citations). His papers: https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf and his resume: https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf are all written in this style.
- abledon 8y agoLol, That resume is something. This guy is the equivalent of some medieval robin hood who can talk the talk then back it up with the walking of the walk.