No you see if you'd just let them kill several myriads more Ghazzan children they would've y'know achieved class consciousness and stuff somehow, and that would've made up for them killing myriads of Ghazzan children somehow
No, the obvious synthesis is a game like Scribblenauts*, or alternatively this heraldic blazon based FPS idea I've been working out for the past five years, where the player literally uses human language to play the game but where the player character is nevertheless 100% mute.
*if Maxwell has any dialog in Scribblenauts then I don't remember that part
John Waters WHAT???
Plants, probably
My desktop background is the same as it ever was.
Oh baby it's Portuñol time
I remember a/s/l being used on Omegle as a teenager, but I've never seen "asl" being used to mean "as hell".
yaarghlebargle hell doesn't start with L
But yeah that reminds me of how I'd make my mom mad as a kid, when I would make this one TTS program say "bloody L"
with the asl update (at least that one made sense)
American... Sign Language??
Yeah, I was going to ask how you'd define "pick me" yourself, but I see you've already done that in other comments. When trying to look up the original meaning of "pick me" I was met with some amount of contradiction, so I wasn't sure what to think.
But yeah, we have already a myriad terms for "appealing to the fantasies/expectations of the oppressor", so the only upside of using "pick me" with that meaning is how evocative it is of specifically putting others down for one's own sake... And yeah, it's not inherently a bad thing for a word to be used only for its evocation, for a word to spread and change meaning — but it becomes a bad thing when the context of this exchange is one of inequality between groups.
Othello is referring to Lenin's Cat calling "pick me" an "awful term" — the term "pick me" originated in AAVE, as do probably way more words and phrases than you're consciously aware of. AAVE words and phrases start getting used by whites, this leads to semantic shift as the words are used outside of their original context and purpose, and this in turn leads to the actual histories of these words becoming completely forgotten by whites.
Frankly, I had never given a moment's thought as to who exactly might've first coined the term "pick me", so literally as I'm writing this I'm becoming aware of the term's actual history.
Nice thesis and antithesis there, but I must propose the synthesis "offline enough to not know about Japan through pop culture soft power shit, but also totally knew his dad was being an ass but opted not to say anything in order to get a free trip to Japan"
"Seppo" is my favorite when speaking English, it felt kinda weird to use at first because it looks vaguely Japanese or Finnish (indeed Seppo is a Finnish name and {説法|せっぽう} means "preaching") but I quickly grew fond of the word.