"yeag" and "waow" are my favorite features of the sociolect i think. i love tgirl linguistics
December 2, 2024 at 8:26 PM
"yeag" and "waow" are my favorite features of the sociolect i think. i love tgirl linguistics
I have some relatives who says "youse" in a highly regional northern USA sociolect but it would sound really unnatural from me
August 28, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I have some relatives who says "youse" in a highly regional northern USA sociolect but it would sound really unnatural from me
My #interestingread today:
Social Dialect or #Sociolect Definition and Examples
www.thoughtco.com/social-diale...
via thoughtco.com
#langsky
Social Dialect or #Sociolect Definition and Examples
www.thoughtco.com/social-diale...
via thoughtco.com
#langsky
What Is a Social Dialect?
Learn about usage and examples of social dialect, or sociolect, which is a variety of speech associated with a particular group within a society.
www.thoughtco.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:44 AM
My #interestingread today:
Social Dialect or #Sociolect Definition and Examples
www.thoughtco.com/social-diale...
via thoughtco.com
#langsky
Social Dialect or #Sociolect Definition and Examples
www.thoughtco.com/social-diale...
via thoughtco.com
#langsky
blue sky should have a feature where u post something that was just floating around the back of your brain and it gets a bajillion numbers .. it's free dopamine
November 5, 2024 at 2:19 PM
blue sky should have a feature where u post something that was just floating around the back of your brain and it gets a bajillion numbers .. it's free dopamine
I’m desperately trying to understand AO3 culture and catch up on the sociolect and it feels like showing up at a house party where everyone else is in the same musical theatre troupe
July 8, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I’m desperately trying to understand AO3 culture and catch up on the sociolect and it feels like showing up at a house party where everyone else is in the same musical theatre troupe
It's actually pretty easy to tell that LLM chatbots are a dead-end technology that won't lead to true AI
My reasoning? None of the machine beings or robot kinksters I know speak in the LLM sociolect
My reasoning? None of the machine beings or robot kinksters I know speak in the LLM sociolect
February 17, 2026 at 3:23 PM
It's actually pretty easy to tell that LLM chatbots are a dead-end technology that won't lead to true AI
My reasoning? None of the machine beings or robot kinksters I know speak in the LLM sociolect
My reasoning? None of the machine beings or robot kinksters I know speak in the LLM sociolect
This is post-doc Tumblr get onboard with the sociolect.
October 21, 2024 at 11:46 AM
This is post-doc Tumblr get onboard with the sociolect.
continues to amaze me that size is such a common fascination that it is the basis for a community with its own shibboleths and sociolect
March 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
continues to amaze me that size is such a common fascination that it is the basis for a community with its own shibboleths and sociolect
having grown up in the stockhom suburbs in the 90s, i'm absolutely prone to sometimes regressing into a sociolect inflected with arabic, turkish and yugoslav loan words and phrasings. fortunately that's never been too policed, but i *have* seen it shock people.
September 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
having grown up in the stockhom suburbs in the 90s, i'm absolutely prone to sometimes regressing into a sociolect inflected with arabic, turkish and yugoslav loan words and phrasings. fortunately that's never been too policed, but i *have* seen it shock people.
i don't have a problem with it in general but 'entropy' is Grok-user sociolect 😔
December 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
i don't have a problem with it in general but 'entropy' is Grok-user sociolect 😔
should i get on linkedin and learn the sociolect?
June 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
should i get on linkedin and learn the sociolect?
In their sociolect, "fren" isn't just a cutesy way to spell "friend," it's also used as an abbreviation for "far-right ethno-nationalist."
Elon is basically stating "I'm a Nazi, just like you, please like me."
Elon is basically stating "I'm a Nazi, just like you, please like me."
January 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
In their sociolect, "fren" isn't just a cutesy way to spell "friend," it's also used as an abbreviation for "far-right ethno-nationalist."
Elon is basically stating "I'm a Nazi, just like you, please like me."
Elon is basically stating "I'm a Nazi, just like you, please like me."
Finally, a good article about 6-7 and about youth sociolect and social meaning in general.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Slang terms like ‘six-seven’ have no definition. But they’re loaded with meaning | Matthew Cantor
Older generations are demanding explanations of the viral phrase – but slang doesn’t have to make logical sense
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Finally, a good article about 6-7 and about youth sociolect and social meaning in general.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
as a hundred expressions for snow, so a hundred words for the emotionally stunted in the sociolect of online
October 22, 2024 at 8:18 AM
as a hundred expressions for snow, so a hundred words for the emotionally stunted in the sociolect of online
its not reading this but i post good here and i want to wow it with my mastery of the transgender sociolect so let a gal dream
July 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
its not reading this but i post good here and i want to wow it with my mastery of the transgender sociolect so let a gal dream
2. Use the language (or idio/sociolect) that conveys your meaning, and use it meaningfully
3. The reader will, nonetheless, hear what they need/want to hear
4. Your story can only be told in your way by you, but it does not belong to you
5. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something
3. The reader will, nonetheless, hear what they need/want to hear
4. Your story can only be told in your way by you, but it does not belong to you
5. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something
May 24, 2026 at 7:04 PM
2. Use the language (or idio/sociolect) that conveys your meaning, and use it meaningfully
3. The reader will, nonetheless, hear what they need/want to hear
4. Your story can only be told in your way by you, but it does not belong to you
5. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something
3. The reader will, nonetheless, hear what they need/want to hear
4. Your story can only be told in your way by you, but it does not belong to you
5. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something
How about this? I give you a handful of words and just leave you to ponder: community, identity, status, names, sociolect, cats, sociolinguistics. So there! meowfactor.hypotheses.org/5799
# linguistics 🧪
# linguistics 🧪
Catspeak Means Social
How about this? I give you a handful of words and just leave you to ponder: community, identity, status, names, sociolect, cats, sociolinguistics. So there! But that would not be very social from my ...
meowfactor.hypotheses.org
April 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
How about this? I give you a handful of words and just leave you to ponder: community, identity, status, names, sociolect, cats, sociolinguistics. So there! meowfactor.hypotheses.org/5799
# linguistics 🧪
# linguistics 🧪
i have to mute the entire American political sociolect to make this website even somewhat usable but apparently seeing a nude body is a bridge too far
May 31, 2026 at 6:41 PM
i have to mute the entire American political sociolect to make this website even somewhat usable but apparently seeing a nude body is a bridge too far
i'm nearly 30 years old. i quite literally do not care what kids these days find funny. i grew up laughing at lolcats. nobody's cooked, kids will always come up with stupid ingroup jokes. it's how they create identifiers within their sociolect. who cares. go eat a salad
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
i'm nearly 30 years old. i quite literally do not care what kids these days find funny. i grew up laughing at lolcats. nobody's cooked, kids will always come up with stupid ingroup jokes. it's how they create identifiers within their sociolect. who cares. go eat a salad
Erasmus English is one sociolect of it too
September 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Erasmus English is one sociolect of it too
L'ancien espéranto (genre l'ancien français pour l'espéranto)
Je suis passé en quelques secondes de "qu'est ce que c'est encore que cette connerie" à "en fait c'est pas con du tout"
Je suis passé en quelques secondes de "qu'est ce que c'est encore que cette connerie" à "en fait c'est pas con du tout"
August 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
L'ancien espéranto (genre l'ancien français pour l'espéranto)
Je suis passé en quelques secondes de "qu'est ce que c'est encore que cette connerie" à "en fait c'est pas con du tout"
Je suis passé en quelques secondes de "qu'est ce que c'est encore que cette connerie" à "en fait c'est pas con du tout"
as good as the "corncob" meme is, i really think dril's best contribution to the internet's sociolect is "who cares. pick up a foot ball"
useful for everything from people who take K-pop way too seriously to people who think Sabrina Carpenter is the devil for being a bit horny to shitlibs
useful for everything from people who take K-pop way too seriously to people who think Sabrina Carpenter is the devil for being a bit horny to shitlibs
August 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
as good as the "corncob" meme is, i really think dril's best contribution to the internet's sociolect is "who cares. pick up a foot ball"
useful for everything from people who take K-pop way too seriously to people who think Sabrina Carpenter is the devil for being a bit horny to shitlibs
useful for everything from people who take K-pop way too seriously to people who think Sabrina Carpenter is the devil for being a bit horny to shitlibs