Live and Love under Patooties' peculiar light
An informative thread on meme semiotics by Daniel Ginsberg on Twitter.
(Source: twitter.com, via not-the-conversation-starter)
Wait, so… does -copter come *from* helicopter?
Yep! This is called rebracketing. Another famous example would be “-burger”: the original food item is named after the German city, [Hamburg]+[er], but got semantically reinterpreted as [ham]+[burger]. Now it’s used as a suffix indicating a type of sandwich.
#language is made up and nothing is real (via @gallusrostromegalus)
(Source: twitter.com, via timurmurtazin)
I love the way online culture is slowly adopting a hieroglyphic-type system of words indicated by pictures. No, I’m not talking about emojis, I’m talking about the fact that I just saw a particular red-tinted image of Barack Obama’s eyes used in a conversation and read it as the words “then perish” with no hesitation.
(via kalianos)
“Time is just a human construct, it doesn’t exist!” No, measuring time in hours, minutes, and seconds is a human construct. Time still exists. We know this because the past has passed.
“Numbers are just a human cons–” Again, no, the names of numbers are a human construct, amounts of things still exist.
