Post #2848981

2026-05-09 10:00 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers May 9: How likely are you to embrace changes to language usage? You mean load my prose up with skibbidy and 6 7 references? :blobcatgiggle: Engaging in language play is how young people evolve the language and also how they separate themselves from the stodgy olds (which includes me). Some of their changes will persist (the way 'cool' did) and some of it will fade and be forgotten. I'm unlikely to use new slang. Not because I don't respect it. In a sense, I do. (As far as I can tell, 6 7 is just a Darmok and Jalad and Tanagra.) I lack the context to use those references competently. Since the stuff I write here is intended for adults only, my audience also lacks the context to receive it competently. Which isn't to suggest my language play is done. It will just be my own rather than plugged into the zeitgeist of 'youth culture.' (Note: I'm doing several silly things in this post. If my tone seems weird, that's likely why.)

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@EveHasWords@toot.cat 2026-05-11 10:00

#ScribesAndMakers May 11: Though it can be hard to choose favo(u)rites and you may not be a fan of his work, which of Shakespeare's plays would you say you like best? Oh, I'm pretty basic on that. While I like A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like It, I tend to like the tragedies more. Wikipedia lists The Tempest as a comedy which ... ok, let's not go there (I'm not saying it's a tagedy ... it's clearly not but, even in Shakespeare terms, I don't think it's a comedy). Anyway. I can't simply say Hamlet. I can't say I love Hamlet more than The Tempest or the Scottish play. But I also can't rate one of those higher than Hamlet. So let's call it a three way tie for first place and I'll do my best not to think about any of the ones I could have put into that tie.

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