If only I could eat your little lies... @ladyyymorgue - Tumblr Blog

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It's so hard to come to that conclusion though, like at this point unalive is a part of gen Z culture. It's just using a word, they're not even thinking about talking on TikTok or YouTube anymore, they're just talking. It's a lot like people getting mad over AAVE because it's not grammatically correct and yes it's not, but AAVE is a cultural usage of English, a dialect if you will. They use it because their friends and family use it, everyone talks that way. Nobody thinks about grammar when speaking AAVE. It's actually kind of offensive if you try to correct someone. It's like that with unalive too. It's a clashing of culture, we don't understand it because we see it as it was formed, a response to a shitty half ass language filter, not as it is used, which is just another word for kill, death, or died. I really think this one is just not a big deal enough to fight. I think that teacher in the first part, while I agree with the sentiment and find the story funny, it's also in my opinion not about maturity but just a culture thing.

evelynstarshine

From working with children, the way kids who use unalive react when they hear someone say kill or suicide, it's not just slang or comparable to minoritised dialects, it's self-censorship, active and deliberate with fear of consequences built into it.

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The idea of being punished by an invisible force for saying a bad word is literally something I was terrified of in Catholic school and it’s creepy that corporate sponsors are living in kids’ heads the way God and Satan lived in ours.

sapphicselkie

i'm sorry are we going to just gloss over the fact that user roughstar tried to claim that AAVE is ungrammatical?

AAVE is a full dialect of english with its own phonological and syntactic structures my guy. not comparable to corporate censorship "unalive" even a little bit

chelonianmobile

See, when the character Letty Chubb in Ros Asquith's Teenage Worrier series replaced the word "death" with "banana", it was supposed to be dark comedy about her untreated anxiety.

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xtroor

All roads unfortunately lead back to tumblr.

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Sucker: my year as a degenerate gambler by McKay Coppins (The Atlantic)

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Paywall skip link.

This is very worth reading.

iknowitwontwork

REBLOG IF IT'S OKAY FOR ME TO BOTHER YOU IF YOU'RE MY MUTUAL

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in World War 1 around 8 million horses died but in World War 2 it was under a million which can only mean horses started to evolve bullet resistance

lordoftablecloths

im sorry i couldnt just let these slide

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So I’m moving into a new apartment, and I was told that the room had been damaged, but nothing could have prepared me for the fact that someone had carved Li Shang’s head out of the bathroom door and written “We must defeat the Huns!” on it.

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