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What is the point of Netspeak?
Part of me wants to say it is a perfectly valid form of expression, designed to take control of a medium that has been designed by anti-humanist corporations, and part of me wants to beat Netspeakers to death with a shillelagh.
There was a girl in my cabin in a camp I was at (yes, as a counselor, no they didn't turn out to be serial killers) who we had to keep an eye on to make sure that she didn't write her daily journal stuff in gang writing (this kid was 11). I can sort of see the point, a way of self-expression that's a pretty strong fuck-you to the dominant paradigm, but it just seems like so much bloody effort, that could be more practically used in writing well in standard English.
Or, as I like to say, to overthrow The Man, you have to be The Man first.
The first person (and the second, and the third, and etc) to comment on this in Netspeak will be harmed.
Part of me wants to say it is a perfectly valid form of expression, designed to take control of a medium that has been designed by anti-humanist corporations, and part of me wants to beat Netspeakers to death with a shillelagh.
There was a girl in my cabin in a camp I was at (yes, as a counselor, no they didn't turn out to be serial killers) who we had to keep an eye on to make sure that she didn't write her daily journal stuff in gang writing (this kid was 11). I can sort of see the point, a way of self-expression that's a pretty strong fuck-you to the dominant paradigm, but it just seems like so much bloody effort, that could be more practically used in writing well in standard English.
Or, as I like to say, to overthrow The Man, you have to be The Man first.
The first person (and the second, and the third, and etc) to comment on this in Netspeak will be harmed.
