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If I hear "unalive" as a verb one more time 
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Apparently kids have been saying “unalive” in way more normal contexts too, not just places where you’re trying to avoid bot censors. Like, using it in essays because they think it’s a more formal way of saying it kill, like “dead” vs “deceased”
(There’s certainly a chance this is made up and I’m sounding like the weird chuds who think there are litterboxes in classrooms and if that’s the case whoops)
I genuinely wish there was a way to pressure advertisers to knock that shit off. God I hate that word so much. Please just let people say kill I don’t want to hear unalive anymore it sounds so stupid.
I just find it incredibly depressing there's a generation growing up whose vocabulary is being directly influenced by Google's bots
It's just so fucking grim. In 10 years everyone is going to talk like they're trying to trick ChatGPT into saying something naughty
Kill the god of machine logic inside your minds
Butlerian Jihad now
Hey don't be too sad, it's being influenced by China’s bots too.
You gave me the worst dumbnet evil AI scenario. It's going to live rent-free in my head. I can't believe you've done this. /s
Language do be rapidly evolving in fascinating and unpredictable ways.
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That one is just longstanding AAVE, "do be" is a present progressive meaning something like "has been frequently known to be". "He do be working" therefore is like "He has been working a lot lately".
I say it all the time, it's fun and less of a mouthful.
I like using been, I listened to a podcast where a linguist explained how versatile it was. If you shorten it that means it like happened in the past and it's continuing to happen and you say it with more like emphasis, maybe like more plosive like a 'P':
Like you are doing something now or started recently if you say it kinda neutral:
Maybe like sarcastically or when you lengthen it:
Wait why would there be litter boxes in classrooms? Why would they be allowed cats? Do people think that's how kids are getting
potential trigger i think
'feminized'?the classroom litter box thing was something a school experimented with in case students needed to pee during a school shooter drill. Chud media circulated a story claiming that it was to accommodate "furry" students who identified as a cat and didn't want to use the toilet.
Dang the stuff reactionaries think up that we fight for consistently prove to be way way better than how things actually are.
It's like they're describing a slice of paradise. Y'know those Ben Garrison drawings, that's what I had in mind.