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| Essay Procrastificationism |
| 10.16.03 (4:25 am) [edit] |
‘Heteroglossic’ What a ridiculous word. I came across it today. This is one of many words which as far as I can ascertain (through, what you may be assured, is comprehensive research…) a completely made up word!
:arrow: Heteroblastic,
:arrow: Heteroplastic,
:arrow: Heterolysis…
All perfectly fine ‘actual’ words – I checked. I don’t have any idea what they mean, and I’m almost certainly not going to use them unless one of them somehow resurface at an opportune moment; say, when I’m trying to wiggle out of being caught in the middle of a DIY full body-wax by my flatmates. Actually this is not at all likely to happen… No really.
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Fellow DESI402 scholars, as keen readers of the diatribes of many a verbose cybercomentationist, you will all, I have no doubt, know exactly what I mean. What’s it all about?
Well, it may or may not surprise you to know that I have a theorism.
:arrow:
First of all there is fame. I reckon most of these cyberwritologists are pretty intense about getting published, getting their names and theorisms out there and generally causing a bit of wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst peers. At the heart of this is a defining 'creative' word, a dissertation maker, a little bit of identity-morphism all their own. A name making word which will be picked up, quoted, sited and bibliographyed far and wide. I pontificationize that these people live for this shytology.
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Second: and I admit that this is a gratuitous attempt to pull a sensible and salient point out of my now hairless #%s: language has a life of it’s own online. Actually, that’s true to say of nearly any specialisation but by way of example, from a MUD with no less than 11 pronouns for establishing gender:
:arrow:
@gender person
resulting pronouns: per,pers,persel f,
Example: Per reads per book perself…
or
@gender spivak
resulting pronouns: eir,eirs,eirsel f,
Example: eir reads eir book eirself…
:arrow:
How about these ones:
jc: just curious
bmf: biting my fingers
brb: be right back
bbl: be back later
btw: by the way
imho: in my humble opinion
lol: laughs out loud
lmao: laughing my ass off
rotflmao: rolling on the floor…
kewl huh?
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I need to get back to my essay. Did the point make sense? ‘Heteroblastic’ does have a certain ring to it… also, my humble apologies for any disturbistic imagery in this blog...
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