#tumblr dialect

[nordarknessdimsthesky]

A linguistic analysis of tumblr hyperbole in the tags

This post expands my previous analysis of hyperbolic reactions to cluster tags by themes. There were too many themes, some of them overlapping, to create a cohesive graph. Instead, I present several overarching themes from a data set of 50 tags observed and documented in various corners of tumblr.

1. Feeling Normal™️

Tags within this cluster profess Normal feelings (read: extreme excitement, enthusiasm, obsession, derangement, etc.).

#mmmmrrrghuhhhhghhh #I'm so normal about it teehee #absolutely not rending my clothing #feeling very normal and not feral at all #i will simply never recover #gif sets sent to personally destroy me #i can't cope #the eyes #i'm a puddle #i am INCONSOLABLE #i am DISTRAUGHT #IM NOT OKKAAAAAAYYYYYY #FEELING TOTALLY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT NORMAL

2. Feralness

The following data points conjure animalistic behavior. There’s a non-zero amount of biting and chewing involved.

#chomping biting barking #biting my arms off #rattling my cage #[incoherent biting noises] #chewing glass #chewing through wood #*shaking the bars of my enclosure* HELLO!!!!!!!! #climbing the walls #biting gnawing chewing #im gonna rip off my front door and eat it

3. Noisy Emotional Outbursts

These tags encompass crying, screaming, yelling, and other loud reactions.

# shaking sobbing crying #SCREAMIIIING BANGING MY HEAD ON THE WALL #*no thoughts only wailing* #i am SOBBING #IM CRYING LIKE A BITCH #*just fucking yelling* #S C R E A M #screeching into a pillow #brb sobbing for 5-7 business years

4. Throwing

All of these tags except the last one involve being thrown instead of throwing things. I, personally, am entertained by the range of places/situations people are throwing themselves into.

#i am going to THROW MYSELF into the SEA #hurl me into the sea #hurl me into the sun #trebuchet me into the sun #hurl me straight at europa #vent me out of an airlock #slam me against a wall #put me in a box and throw me down the stairs #throwing myself into traffic you know? #just defenestrate me already #defenestrate me #absolutely hurl me through plate glass #i'm going to start tossing furniture

5. Bodily Harm

There’s a good deal of overlap with the previous theme. Nearly all of the tags involving throwing would result in varying degrees of bodily harm. Here are the tags outside of the Throwing subgroup.  

#im going to throw upppppp #tearing my hair out #banging my head against the wall #SCREAMIIIING BANGING MY HEAD ON THE WALL #biting my arms off #microwaving myself #crumple me up and microwave me

6. Absurdism

My personal favorite cluster. The imagery conjured and resulting comedic hyperbole is just [chef’s kiss].

#im gonna rip off my front door and eat it #crumple me up and microwave me #put me in a box and throw me down the stairs #defenestrate me #absolutely hurl me through plate glass

7. Keysmashes

These tags center less around meaning and more around style, so they form the last group. A handful of these could fall under Noisy Emotional Outbursts because they represent reaction noises. In my linguistic judgment, keysmashing increases the hyperbole – consider augh versus aughfhghghghhh – the latter reads as prolonged and more intense emotionally.

#aghdjakgsjadhjaka * #hrhrhrhgnnnghhhhh #aughfhghghghhh #mmmmrrrghuhhhhghhh #I'm so normal about it teehee #waughfhghghh #oughhhhghghhh

*one digression in a friend discord server was how people interpret keysmashes in their minds. Some hear the first couple letters and then some sputtering, others hear static. It’s a common joke that you need a minor in linguistics to understand conversations in this friend group. Such is the nature of things when the chaos linguist energy is strong.

#internet linguistics #tumblr linguistics #tumblr dialect #hyperbole #linguistics #tumblr #speaking and musing #the chaos linguist speaks

[funky-little-vulcan]

tumblr dialect is writing in long sentences that merge into each other without punctuation* or any sort of pause marker except for word order on the one hand it’s hard to read but on the other hand it communicates a very specific vibe,,,,

*all punctuation to be deposited at end of post

#tumblr linguistics #tumblr dialect #im trying to fit in am I doing a good job

[kyofsonder]

I might be on Tumblr too much, and in the wrong capacity.

Not just because I'm straying from the original goals I had when making this blog (still working on fixing that), but also because I misread a poll and clicked the wrong option only to say out loud to myself, "Oh. Well. Why don't I just piss on the poor, then?" as a horribly roundabout way of mocking my own reading comprehension, implying that I can't count on myself to read things properly so I should just resign myself to always misreading them.

I even had the immediate urge to make a post about it, which is rare for me. What has this site done to me?

#tumblr culture #tumblr dialect #this is already a stretching of tumblr dialect english #but to someone off this site #who doesn't know “how dare you say we piss on the poor” in the first place #this would be absolute nonsense #beyond what it is even to me #a man who's left and come back #who's seen the rise and fall of tumblr eras #and the evolution of its language #and worse #I'm gonna say this in my head again in the future #it's gonna be part of my vocabulary now #I'll misread a friend's text and just #say that #not to anyone who isn't on tumblr #hopefully #but I will still say it #and that's a lingual curse I bear now #mostly self-inflicted I think #although on the bright side #I can say it's a curse that makes me a little bit funnier #to myself at least #so there's that #I'm incomprehensible but I make myself laugh #and that's probably fine

[origami-butterfly]

I forget tumblr has a very unique way of talking. I was talking to my desk partner in English and I told her "I support women's rights and women's wrongs" and she looked at me like I was Shakespeare.

#she also said she's adopting it as her new motto #good for her tbh #my random stuff #tumblr dialect

[captain-acab]

Just saw a post that was (presumably) trying to invoke the metaphor, "firing a few gunshots in the backyard every month to keep the local rent down," but they had bastardized it to the nearly unrecognizable phrase: landlord-shooting-at-passing-cars

Which is just a fascinating perversion of the original sentiment. Just. A complete lack of understanding of what is being said or the rationale behind it. But a compelling mental image nonetheless!

#Rent #Hoas #Tumblr #Internet linguistics #Reading comprehension #Tumblr dialect #Mine

[briarlovesginny]

i was looking into it and the grey area between dialects and languages is such that “online-speak” could be considered either one, but is probably in the middle. It is based on mutually intelligible language widely (english), but it can still be incoherent to someone who doesn’t know the culture surrounding it. idk it’s very cool

#a lot of points i saw had to do with differences in grammar #and in writing #which really would divide the different dialects of 'internet language' into corners of it #like tumblr speak insta ao3 etc #lingustics #tumblr language #tumblr dialect

[acrowseye]

i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

#ex: united states > south > sodapop #please rb so more people see #american english #australian english #british english #canadian english #english #english language #dialects #accents #american accent #australian accent #british accent #canadian accent #english accent #america #australia #england #canada #those four are my target audience but all answers from around the world are welcome!! #tumblr #discourse #experiment

[beemovieerotica]

you never realize how much tumblr alters even your most basic conversational vernacular and I don't mean "that's my blorbo" level discourse I mean I made the comment "oh that is an entire human man" around someone who is very offline and they went "😂😂😂 What? An entire human? LOL!"

#i think twitter and tumblr are neighboring dialects but facebook is another language entirely #we cannot communicate

[amandacanwrite]

I just want to say thank you to my non-Californian mutuals that put up with the fact that the word "like" is basically punctuation here and therefore, is in like all of my conversationally written posts.

#you the real mvp #californian accent #californian #californian dialect #writing community #writers on tumblr #writing #authors #writeblr #my writing

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

they really thought they did something with that "that which is meant to guide" line like it was a zinger and they weren't just unironically repeating White Man's Burden in 2024

#i hate the tumblr fandom lib dialect so much #you can just tell they've only read YA shit and nothing else

[fidgetspringer-art]

✷ Archmage Tethry Ikos ✷

#my art #artists on tumblr #illustration #digital art #DnD #dungeons and dragons #homebrew #ttrpg #orignal character #ocs #my ocs #drow #Tethry #Setting: Heim #I wasn't sure about posting this with no context because this guy has a LOT of context #but i have no idea how to sum things up in a way that a) won't be an essay or b) sound fucking stupid #so uh #enjoy this purple man i guess? #I'm still trying to figure out exactly how to design that cloak cause it has some importance #but i just wanted to get his face down on paper #so here he is #Archmage (regretfully) #Professor of arcane dialects #and reluctant global posterboy for 'modern' arcane advancement #I'll maybe probably talk more about Tethry and his role in this setting later but yeah #i have no idea where to even begin

[nordarknessdimsthesky]

the linguistics of hyperbolic tumblr tags

a graph of hyperbolic reactions in the tags across the axes of Totally Normal to Feral and level of violence. the red italics indicate horny reactions. this isn’t particularly scientific im just going off of vibes. consultation for Horny™️ vibes from @playing-for-keeps

#internet linguistics #tumblr linguistics #tumblr dialect #hyperbole #graph meme #alignment chart #linguistics #tumblr #my edits #just some thoughts based on what ive been observing in my corner of the internet these days #the chaos linguist speaks

[10thingsihateabout-all-yall]

Whenever dialects affect how an international company packages the same product, I find it fascinating. Please reblog and tag what country you're from!

#tumblr polls #polls #chocolate #candy #language #dialect #capitalism #colonialism #cacao #i notice nestle uses “bar” #cadbury uses “block” #and whittakers uses “slab” or “block”

[anthosaidsmth]

For some reason Pixl saying the word "scrunkly" caught me off guard

#it's just people using Tumblr dialect outside of Tumblr tbh #never thought I'll see him saying scrunkly but here we are #pixlriffs #empires smp

[childaintit]

Subaru only sent it to Otto and Garfiel

#they were mostly shocked because they saw his hair down for the first time #re zero but its modern au #i like to think if this is a highschool au #subaru befriends the 'weird kids' that hate the other 'weird kids' group #and somehow turns them into friends #subaru is the new transfer kid #hes in a small town/village #so hes very unaware for the slangs/dialect used but he gets the hang of it #then he befriends the creepiest girl first (who is emilia) and hes like #????? this who u guys talking abt.. #re zero drawing #re zero fanart #emilia re zero #subaru re:zero #re zero #modern au #also its been a while har har har #hope to see more content on re zero tumblr #8

[several-mice]

“And a little conformity never hurt nobody, but lately I’ve been worried that you’re losing yourself”

A drawing based on Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave.

#will wood and the tapeworms fanart #will wood fanart #will wood and the tapeworms #will wood #wwattw #marsha thankk you for the dialectics #the normal album #my art #traditional art #acrylic #artists on tumblr