It's the dunk tank.
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From a thread asking opinions about emoji usage.
However it happens and whomever is responsible here we are... and we're losing ground fast. And things like emojis are leading the charge.
Should we tell them @WhyEssEff@hexbear.net is responsible?
eliminate the roman alphabet and make everyone write in hanzi
Xi dunking on these fools
I admit I laughed but it seems excessive to swarm someone who's not expressing a political thought.
It me your average emoji enjoyer
Stephen Fry is a turboliberal but he had a good segment once on Jonathon Ross' show where he addresses this.
He called this type of person an "arse whitterer".
It's fine. Deal with it.
lately there's been a lot of people in my community trying to revitalize the old writing systems that were used for nahua and maya writing. i'm far from fluent in nahutal to begin with, but its exciting to see. neither is likely to be available digitally for a long time, so i've been experimenting with using cree writing to make it a little easier for me to remember how to spell stuff. i think the old ways of writing are really beautiful and i'm happy to be a small part of bringing them back. one of the fun things about maya writing is that its really hard to describe the logo-syllabic structure in unicode so they've been creating this whole rendering engine to handle complex stuff like maya writing and egyptian hieroglyphics. probably another 10 years before it supports these systems.
this video gives a basic introduction to maya writing which has received a lot of attention. afaik nahua writing has only been regarded as "real writing" somewhat recently when the academics started to understand how it work.
alphabet writing is boring and easy to encode. give me something interesting that computers can't really grapple with. now that's advanced writing!
what is :barbara-pit: ?
A very cost-effective solution to social ills.
Find fascists, put them in abandoned mine, seal the entrance.
Online chuds get really mad if you call it the cuck pit. Idk how they always know which pit it refers, but they do.
waxes lyrical about the degradation of language, blissfully unaware that olds have been doing exactly that since the invention of the written word
doesn't know how to use whom or a semicolon
least stupid prescriptivist
Death to America
Written English isn't really a phonetic language. It's a logographic script utilizing 26 radicals to make characters. While these radicals give clues to pronunciation, English learners largely have to memorize the pronunciation of each character. 
when the speakers of Germanic languages were huddled together in mud huts Egypt was a great empire
not even going to elaborate on the obvious brainworms contained in the idea that English speakers are more human than others
Big "Western Civilization" brainworms and their consequences
I mean, shorthand and jargon are literally everywhere in the working world and i don't think anyone'd call that a sign of civilizational decay. Your average court stenanographer would be boned if they had to write in full sentences.