Taking a hardline approach to prescriptivism is the language equivalent of feeling very strongly about one specific year of pop culture and wanting to hit the brakes on the march of time and keep resurrecting, say, Pump Up The Jam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awHOWeDBQtk
Stay mad, Peak Human!
I think I’ve figured it out. These mega-genius redditor libs understand the secret truth: The more verbose someone is, the more cleverer and correct they are. The more they waffle on about a topic, the smartier they are. Therefore, someone trying to communicate more efficiently, using a picture to convey their meaning, the more stupid and wrong they most certainly are.
what if I’m crazy verbose but also sprinkle in emojis just to make sure my tone/intent is coming through
Women tend to use emojis more, so redditors and by extension lemmitors hate emojis
I like big emojis and I cannot lie.
If you go into the rest of that thread, a number of euphoric Redditor-tier insufferable nerds showed up to go
Sarcasm is very hard to convey with just text. Emojis help fix that.