It was never needed in the past and ads no context that a simple exclamation point or bold letters could do if a person wants to add emphasis.

  • running_ragged@lemmy.world
    922·
    5 months ago

    It does add context though.

    If I just said “it adds context”, it’s not seen as a counterclaim to your claim. It’s just a new standalone statement.

    • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
      213·
      5 months ago

      This is the correct answer. It doesn’t address the multiple mistakes in English and spelling that the OP ended up writing, though. Nor does it address the spelling variant, although that does not seem to be the particular focus of the original enquiry.

    • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
      6·
      5 months ago

      Exactly. An exclamation point or bolding your letters sure does add emphasis, but if you actually wanted to make it a clear counterclaim, though or tho does the job a whole lot better.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
      11·
      5 months ago

      I sort of use it like as a hybrid of

      yes and

      yes but

      Might be the people-pleaser in me but I find it helps to make a contention both more palatable to hear and likely to be engaged with since you’re agreeing but also clarifying where you sense incongruity

  • lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world
    803·
    5 months ago

    Looking for an explanation, yes? It’s a linguistic convention, totally. I mean, you know, we add a lot of unnecessary words, like, serious. It’s superfluous verbage. Look, I know it seems to be a recent thing, but it’s, like, been going on for a long time, right?

  • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz
    5811·
    5 months ago

    Narrator : Unaware of what year it was, Joe wandered the streets desperate for help. But the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valleygirl, inner-city slang and various grunts. Joe was able to understand them, but when he spoke in an ordinary voice he sounded pompous and faggy to them.

    • Evkob@lemmy.ca
      743·
      5 months ago

      I get this is likely a reference to something, but casually using slurs and linguistic elitism are both pretty lame.

      Edit: Anyone care to share their issues with what I said rather than simply downvoting me?

      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
        26·
        5 months ago

        I’m going to guess that it’s Idiocracy, in which case, those words are used because society had devolved into mindless rednecks. And EVERYBODY knows mindless rednecks LOVE those words.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        24·
        5 months ago

        To me it just looks like an opportunity to virtue signal by throwing someone else under the bus in terms of their reputation. It doesn’t allow the other to save face.

        Also, the decision to categorize those things as slurs, which is the same category that contains the n-word, seems like an escalation of severity. The escalation of severity seems to only serve the purpose of taking the other person down a peg, and not of improving the state of discourse here.

        I get that many people see it as a matter of: see bad behavior, call it out, improve the world. But there’s a cost to that kind of thing, just like there’s a cost in cutting down trees to improve an ecosystem. So to invoke that process, and cause that cost to be paid by the group, for a problem of insufficient size, to me seems counterproductive and more aligned with role playing heroism than actually enacting it.

        • Evkob@lemmy.ca
          1·
          5 months ago

          “Faggot” isn’t a slur? Someone should tell all the homophobes who’ve yelled it at me over the years, they’d be devastated.

          My goal was not to bring anyone down or to make myself feel superior, but to cause reflection on how the things they say can affect people. How would you suggest I should approach this in the future?

  • Donebrach@lemmy.world
    52·
    5 months ago

    Lo, here we witness the claimant’s protest: “though” be not used in the past under any circumstance and still never shall it be shortened and used colloquially hence—for we all know: language may never change, even in the slightest!

    ….but really tho

  • remotelove@lemmy.ca
    3·
    5 months ago

    Now? It’s been happening since cell phones became common. It started as lazy typing (or just bad spelling) and it just became a thing shortly after.

    Any word that can be shortened was shortened, like ur example. If punctuation isn’t understood, it’s left out. The worst part of this is that spelling and grammar checkers are “smart”, so they integrate slang as “correct” and probably type mistakes for people automatically.