#linguistic terms

[struckamatchwithfeeling]

@rineharts did you ever take that history of the English language class? I feel like you did. Do you remember the term for a breaking point in a word? The prof said you could find it by putting "fucking" in the middle of the word. Like effer-fucking-vesent or abso-fucking-lutely I really wanna remember what it's called by I have no idea. People who may also know wtf talking about: @lamentforboromir @hiatustohitdice @bookworm428

[theenglishnook]

Pullulation means teeming growth, swarming vitality, or restless proliferation. From budding plants to overflowing ideas, it names life’s unstoppable energy — fertile, chaotic, and endlessly alive.

PULLULATION

[useless-linguisticsfacts-blog]

Useless fact #25

The lovechild of two languages is called a pidgin language. A creole language is a natural language that has developed from a pidgin language and is learned as a native language.

[flowerpetals2wood]

In one way, the adoption by "critical" leftists (the proliferation of critical race theory, whiteness studies, etc. may be a reflection of this) of this notion that power is an "infinitely complex network of micro-powers" may help to explain the rise of the post-New Left vocabulary and the political orientation of those who engage in privilege discourse. Thus, institutional "oppression" as a "pattern of persistent and systematic disadvantage imposed on large groups of people" becomes sublimated by "privilege," where the criticism is centered on "set of unearned benefits that some individuals enjoy (and others are denied) in their everyday lives." Likewise, "liberation," referring to ultimate victory against systems of exploitation and oppression, is abandoned in favor of fighting for "safe spaces," where "the attempt to create occasions or locations wherein the adverse effects of privilege on marginalized people are minimized in everyday interpersonal interactions."[4] Thus, Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob characterize postmodernists as "deeply disillusioned intellectuals who denounce en masse Marxism and liberal humanism, communism and capitalism, and all expectations of liberation."[5] The persistence of postmodernist intellectual parameters on the post-New Left political discourse could not be clearer.