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Igel

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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

Jun 28

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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Code language! [View all] 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 Jun 28 #2