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Languages and Linguistics

pbmus

(12,660 posts) Sat May 31, 2025, 05:55 PM May 31

Code language!

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Code language! (Original Post) pbmus May 31 OP

I caught the gist. quaint May 31 #1

This caused a bit of a wrangle in some corners of the Internet. Igel Saturday #2

quaint

(3,947 posts)

1. I caught the gist.

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Sat May 31, 2025, 06:46 PM

May 31

Igel

(36,882 posts)

2. This caused a bit of a wrangle in some corners of the Internet.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Sat Jun 28, 2025, 12:25 PM

Saturday

He was appropriating others'/sociolectal varieties and that was viewed as Bad. All sorts of "colonialist, appropriationist, classist, elitist, privileged, racist" accusations were hurled. (I'd just term it "outsiderist" or "Otherist".)

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