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> As an aside and a comment on the article, I feel dismayed by the author's decision to include the 'go brrr' meme. It's connected with toxic sentiment and comm
by sillysaurusx 3y ago
> As an aside and a comment on the article, I feel dismayed by the author's decision to include the 'go brrr' meme. It's connected with toxic sentiment and communities from where it's generally used, and is oftentimes used to needlessly mock a group of people.
It's just a meme. No need to read too much into it.
In this case, the meme came from https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis. I doubt that Gwern was making fun of any particular group, except perhaps those that disagree with the bitter lesson.
- tstrimple 3y agoThe fluidity of language is one of the most fascinating aspects of it! English isn't English. It's much more narrowly defined with a geographic and temporal context. Meanings of words and phrases shift over time. Idioms come and origins are forgotten, but it's all folded into cultural dialects. Each generation is able to have their own mark on language, and there's probably a story told in the evolution of the English language across time that maps out the cultural and geographic changes as well. Now I'm curious what sort of research has been done into this. Regardless, the point is language changes. No one can stop it. Raging against it just reveals that you're old and out of touch. After all, I doubt those people raged against the slang of their youth. It's always the Next Generation that is The Problem.