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by wegfawefgawefg 885 days ago
Thank you for the information, I appreciate it. But for me your vernacular is a bit offputting. I had to force myself to finish reading your comment. "So like," in a written context takes away from the information. Or I could be wrong and people with similar speech will synchronize with you. I'm not attacking you, so I hope you don't feel that way, but it is something to consider.
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I hear you, and I think it's a fair thing to establish for oneself what constitutes effective communication.

The question I would put to you though is this: what is the value of what was said, and following that, what effect is your linguistic filter having on your acquisition of quality, reliable information? (realizing, as another commenter pointed out, that I made an error and that fentanyl is actually schedule II, which is another bonkers discussion entirely).

Like you, I'm not on the defensive or trying to attack you in any way. I just think it's a valuable skill to be able to synthesize information from a variety of contexts; especially in a world like ours, where combining information from various sources (cultures, communities, etc) can add up to more than the sum of the individual datum.

As for my usage of the language (so you don't think I got GPT to write this for me), it's a nod to the American writers of the 1960s-70s, who had to deal quite a bit with the fiction of the self-destructive "druggie", created by a political regime that was pushing a drug war.

That said, it is something to consider that my point could have been lost. I appreciate the feedback.

Didn't this construct recently become, like, accepted English grammar or something? Or was it the "because <noun>" thing?
It wasnt any one colloquialism that made it annoying, but the whole phrasiology package combined with the moral high ground.

"so like, folks, you know like, heres the thing, here we are, puttin out there, the fact that we are actually,"

Its my bias of course, but I have never respected anyone who speaks that way, nor have I been given reasons to do so. If its not a critical context, its fine. But this was, so it came off very karen.

> I have never respected anyone who speaks that way, nor have I been given reasons to do so.

Who are you that pksebben or anybody else should care?

I may be an asshole but atleast I am a well spoken asshole.
Elegant trolling... for a more civilized age.