It is Swiff

For the record my beef with "unalived" isn't me shaking my fist at The Youth for Changing Language, it's that the change was precipitated by profit-based algorithms on shortform video platforms because "killed" would flag you and/or get you demonetized without human eyes or ears ever being involved in the process.

I'm no linguistic prescriptivist and even if I were yelling at kids about it is missing the forest for the trees. But I'll never stop being bitter about explicitly capitalism-excreted turns of phrase like that, even as I begrudgingly accept their adoption into common parlance.

Mar 19 at 9:30pmWeb
Show threadIt is SwiffMar 19
"Sewer Slide" and "PDF File" can just go right in the garbage though. I can deal with unalive but fuck those euphemisms in particular.
Show threadIt is SwiffMar 19
Anyway all of this is to say that language can and should change over time and this is a good thing but also that it's not unreasonable to be both aware and critical of *why* changes happen when they happen.
Show threadIt is SwiffMar 19

Ultimately, it doesn't and shouldn't matter. Language evolves, and etymology becomes little more than trivia in the fullness of time.

This is not the first and certainly won't be the last time shareholders have driven culture shifts.

Show threadGulfofMexicoMar 19
@swiff incredible. I had not heard this one. So I am supposed to say “I unalived the light switch as I left the room,” really? Nope. Not going down that road. I am not ashamed to be somewhat of a linguistic purist. Languages should change organically, when it makes sense to do so. I do have a real problem when a handful of people decide all English speaking people should bow to their linguistic whims. Do people in non-English speaking cultures have to deal with this nonsense? It seems relentless, especially in the US. What we need to do is to KILL these efforts to water down language to the point of linguistic extinction.