Suddenly, wolves! Tens of them!
Incredible! Impatient people: it starts around 0:42.
yo I hurd about ur utopian “language” and I jus wanned to letchu know it’s a code for engleesh, not a true blue lang-uage
Said Demi, who is taking a linguistics course at university. When I went to college, I learned a lot about the subject I was studying. I understand this is how it works: you go there, get 2.5 hours’ worth of knowledge on the subject per week, and you thus specialize in the subject and can talk about it. I don’t know if he meant to soften the perceived rudeness of telling me that Utopian is a code and not a language by putting it in retarded-ghetto talk, but regardless, when these rare situations arise, it makes me feel like the person is being rude.
Still, however, it didn’t even occur to me utopianism is not a language. I didn’t even question it because I don’t really know what a language is. In the name of utopianism, I’m glad he corrected me. That’s what I do to people all the time, that’s why I write articles. Is this how it “feels” to me to be corrected? No, actually, because it happens often enough. It’s only when I know it’s because of academic study that it bothers me. There’s this one girl I talk to rarely, and she’s so incredibly smart. Inherently intelligent, you can’t put anything past her. However, this makes me feel like she’s always looking for fault in everything. I sent her lyrics of people whose primary language is French, and she asked “Isn’t it [grammatical rule]?”. Not even “Heh, [grammatical rule].” it was like she already knew the answer, but asked it in question form anyway. “Isn’t it spelled whether and not weather?” would be an example.
In short: Demi, keep correcting people. All I’m saying is that when people seem to do it from the knowledge they gained at university, it irritates me. If you could provide a psychoanalysis for why this happens, Demi, I’d be all ears.
(Source: vossk-blog)