#Chat

[always-bag-the]

https://jennifer-279.mjcyd.asia/vm/a3HZNRi

#f.r.i.e.n.d.s #chat #Tarot #marvel smut #ootd #indie film #Lang Leav #yugioh #leverage #feedee girl #keith kogane #universe #happy new year

[notedchampagne]

#testimonies #chat

[dreamingdeadly]

sometimes responding to media you like is articulate and sometimes it is microwave noises and static fizz

#chat #now why does this have seventy five thousand notes #it's not even funny or anything #cmon man

[collectivefandomstuff]

[on patrol]

Red Robin: [sitting on a rooftop, drinking hot cocoa]

Red Hood: [lands next to him and sits down, pulling out a sandwich]

Red Robin: [holds out a thermos] want some cocoa?

Red Hood: [takes the thermos] yeah, thanks. [offers his sandwich] Want a bite? I baked the bread

Red Robin: hell yes

Red Hood: quiet night tonight

Red Robin: [humms in agreement]

Red Robin and Red Hood: [watches the skyline in silence]

[Nightwing, covered in a slimy substance, flies past them through the air as though he’s been catapulted from a great distance]

Red Hood:

Red Robin:

Red Hood: do you think he saw us?

Red Robin: I don’t think so

Red Hood:

Red Robin:

Red Hood: we can’t all be fighting Ivy, there wouldn’t be anyone left to fight the other criminals

Red Robin: that’s a sound argument. Say while we were helping him someone robbed the mayor, then where would we be?

Red Hood: he definitely came from over by the library, that’s way outside both our routes

Red Robin: so we agree that we wouldn’t be doing our job if we left our post to help with whatever that goop was

Red Hood: definitely

Red Robin: the mayor will thank us

Red Hood:

Red Robin: [sips his cocoa]

Red Hood: cards on the table- I already robbed the mayor earlier tonight

#red robin #red hood #nightwing #incorrect batfamily quotes #incorrect batfam quotes #dc #chat #humor

[monkeyfishgirl]

happy 100th birthday rudy! hope you're doing well x

#caturday #cats #cats of tumblr #catblr #cat #gato #neko #kat #chat #vintage #vintage photography

[l-ouroboros]

Cosmic cat! ✨💫🌙⭐️🌕

#illustration #drawing #art #procreate #artists on tumblr #beastiary #concept art #animal #painting #bestiaire #animals #digitalpainting #dessin #cat #chat #starry cat #starry #stars #galaxy #nebula #nebulosa

[nona-gay-simus]

How to Write Enemies to Lovers Correctly:

Wrong ❌: "I hate him but omgggg look at his abs!!"

Right ✅: "Pathetic, Griddle. I got more hot and bothered digging all night."

#mine #chat #enemies to lovers #etl #hate to love #griddlehark #tlt #tlt shitposting #gtn #the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #ship: one flesh one end bitch #gideon the ninth

[gr1an]

stolen from twitter but i’m cackling

this is so silly and adorable actually

#scarian #shipping #chat #.txt

[53v3nfrn5]

What is it?

#meme #discourse #habits #bad habits #chat

[notedchampagne]

i love and respect butch lesbians so much. i hope they bite and infect me

turned off reblogs because radfems got to this post. get fucking away!!

#chat #you dont need T to be butch duh. plenty of butches also would love to go on T. #if a post isnt directly applicable to you then cope.

[ashiyn]

genuinely impressed by keralis' death message cause what. how.

#.live #chat #ashy watching: hc s10

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Thomas Eakins Cat in Eakins's Yard, ca. 1880-1890. Platinum print | src Smithsonian museums

#Thomas Eakins #cat #Katze #chat #gato #gatto #1880s #1890s #Haustiere #platinum print #Caturday #pet #pets

[noaestheticacademic]

On the Identity of "Chat"

Like all the linguistics folks on Tumblr, I've been sent the "chat is a fourth person pronoun" post by a bunch of well-meaning people and and I've been thinking waaay too much about it. @hbmmaster made a wonderful post explaining exactly why "chat" ISN'T a fourth person pronoun, and after reading it I wanted to go a little deeper on what it might actually be doing linguistically, because it is a really interesting phenomenon. Here's a little proposal on what might be going on, with the caveat that it's not backed up by a sociolinguistic survey (which would be fun but more than I could throw together this morning).

On Pronouns

Studying linguistics has been really beneficial for me because understanding that language is constantly changing helped me to become comfortable with using they/them pronouns for myself. I've since done a decent amount of work with pronouns, and here are some basic ideas.

A basic substitution test shows that "chat" is not syntactically a pronoun: it can't be replaced with a pronoun in a sentence.

"Chat, what do we think about that?"

"He*, what do we think about that?" (* = ungrammatical, a native speaker of English would think it sounds wrong)

Linguists identify pronouns as bundles of features identifying the speaker, addressee, and/or someone outside the current discourse. So, a first person pronoun refers to the speaker, a second person pronoun refers to the addressee, and a third person pronoun refers to someone who is neither the speaker nor the addressee (but who is still known to the speaker and addressee). This configuration doesn't leave a lot of room for a "fourth" person. But the intuition people have that "chat" refers to something external to the discourse is worth exploring.

Hypothesis 1: Chat is a fourth-person pronoun.

We've knocked this one right out.

Hypothesis 2: Chat is an address term.

So what's an address term? These are words like "dude, bro, girl, sir" that we use to talk to people. In the original context where "chat" appears - streamers addressing their viewers - it is absolutely an address term. We can easily replace "chat" with any of these address terms in the example sentence above. It's clear that the speaker is referring to a specific group (viewers) who are observing and commenting on (but not fully participating in) the discourse of the stream. The distinction between OBSERVATION and PARTICIPATION is a secret tool that will come in handy later.

But when a student in a classroom says "wow chat, I hate this," is that student referring to their peers as a chat? In other words, is the student expecting any sort of participation or observation by the other students of their utterance? Could "chat" be replaced with "guys" in this instance and retain its nuance? My intuition as a zillenial (which could be way off, please drop your intuitions in the comments) is that the relationship between a streamer and chat is not exactly what the speaker in this case expects out of their peers. Which brings me to...

Hypothesis 3: chat is a stylistic index.

What's an index in linguistics? To put it very simply, it's anything that has acquired a social meaning based on the context in which it's said. In its original streaming context, it's an address term. But it can be used in contexts where there is not a chat, or even any group of people that could be abstracted into being a chat. Instead, people use this linguistic structure to explicitly mimic the style which streamers use.

And that much seems obvious, right? Of course people are mimicking streamers. It doesn't take a graduate degree to figure that out. What's interesting to me is why people choose to employ streaming language in certain scenarios. How is it different from the same sentence, minus the streamer style?

This all comes down to the indexicality, or social meaning, of streamer speak. This is where I ask you all to take over: what sorts of attitudes and qualities do you associate with that kind of person and that kind of speech? I think it has to do with (here it comes!) the PARTICIPANT/OBSERVER distinction. By framing speech as having observers, a speaker takes on the persona of someone who is observed - a self-styled celebrity. To use "chat" is to position oneself as a celebrity, and in some cases even to mock the notion of such a position. We can see a logical path from how streamers use "chat" as an address term to how it is co-opted to reference streamer culture and that celebrity/observer relationship in non-streaming mediated discourse. If we think about it that way, then it's easy to see why the "fourth person pronoun" post is so appealing. It highlights a discourse relationship that is being invoked wherein "chat" is not a group but a style.

#chat #linguistics #pronouns #discourse

[i-mean-its-practically-canon]

Dick: What do you have?

Damian: A knife.

Dick: And what is the rule about giving Damian knives?

Jason: Don't give Damian knives until he stops trying to kill people.

Dick: And yet?!

Jason: He was very persuasive!

Dick: What did he say?

Jason: He said "please."

Dick, in tears: You'll say "please" to Jason and not to me?

Damian: He gives me knives.

#satire #chat #jason todd #dick grayson #damian wayne #give damian more weapons #brotherly bonding (violent)