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@dgar@aus.social: "Them: Can you explain this gap in your résumé? Me: I spent six hours formatting it in Google Docs and you’ve opened it in Word."
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I guess memes are brain rot. This feels like a get off my lawn comment.

Just because it’s a relatively new meme/saying that derives from streamer culture, doesn’t make it brain rot.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    It's also the most unbiased word for referring to a group in a gender neutral way I've seen lol most others have implications of status (gentlepersons, folks), are still technically gendered (guys, not to mention this implies relatively young people too), or overbroad (everybody is well, everybody. Chat implies you're addressing your community or a small group since they're the ones who would be talking to you).

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Wait "folks" has a status implication? IS NO WORD SIMPLY UNPROBLEMATIC!? IS NOTHING SACRED FROM THIS LINGUISTIC HELL

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    the way i see it, "folks" can refer to a more traditional group of people, most likely rural, and you wouldn't call nobles or people of other high status "folks".

    but also i doubt people think it is problematic; it's just a quirk of the English language that "chat" emerged basically out of nowhere with the closest analogue being "audience".

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    the way i see it, "folks" can refer to a more traditional group of people, most likely rural, and you wouldn't call nobles or people of other high status "folks".

    But you'd call nobles or high status people "chat"?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I meant more that chat implies it could be literally anyone because it's anonymous. Like when the game's developer or some guy with 100k followers suddenly drops in to a little guy's stream. You wouldn't know unless they announced themselves lol

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