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ceej @ceej.online · 5h

dressing up like a skeleton and whispering "memento mori" to all of your coworkers doesn't count as a death threat

Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking down along gender lines in the sense that women are more socialized to do the cognitive/emotional work of sustaining conversation?

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 2d

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 2d

Ooooh thank you!!!

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 3d

Uh oh have you too encountered this (horrible) phenomenon in the wild?

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 3d

There are certainly conventionalized contexts where there are expectations around this division of labor (court, therapy, job interview) but I'm more concerned about day-to-day ordinary conversations b/w institutional equals.

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe I'm not plugged into the right literatures, but it seems like "the work of conversation" is substantially undertheorized in philosophy of language. Sustaining the flow of a mutually desired conversation takes cognitive/emotional labor, which can be distributed equitably—or not.

#philsky 🐦🐦

Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 3d

I (half-jokingly) call this Hot Person's Aphasia (gender-neutral) cause it seems to especially afflict folks who are so used to being offered the world just for showing up that they don't seem to notice they're not participating equitably in the work of conversation.

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 3d

I (half-jokingly) call this Hot Person's Aphasia (gender-neutral) cause it seems to especially afflict folks who are so used to being offered the world just for showing up that they don't seem to notice they're not participating equitably in the work of conversation.

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 3d

This interlocutor isn't trying to blow me off (they're choosing to keep conversation going in a context where opting out would be unmarked default) but they don't exercise mutual curiosity. They obey all the maxims, but don't seem to notice/care that they're being interviewed rather than conversing.

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 3d

Here's an example of something I have in mind:

Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 3d

There's a type of communication I've realized drives me up the wall, even though it's minimally Gricean: unequal division of conversational labor.

Imagine someone who cooperatively/amiably does "payoff" moves (answering questions) but rarely does "setup" moves (asking questions, raising topics)

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 3d

There's a type of communication I've realized drives me up the wall, even though it's minimally Gricean: unequal division of conversational labor.

Imagine someone who cooperatively/amiably does "payoff" moves (answering questions) but rarely does "setup" moves (asking questions, raising topics)

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah for sure, almost tautologically. I think I'm more interested in breaking down the phenomenology of (a)-(c) into subparts?

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 5d

Oh it's the Blackstone Canal.

Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 5d

I'm in Providence and I found a lil baby river?

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 5d

What does being a Good* Conversationalist mean to you?

*normatively, descriptively, politically, aesthetically, somatically, idegaf

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 5d

If you carouse at the table I say I will carouse at the opposite side of the table;

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6d

“no one cares that she wants you to eat cake, cake is actually good and its just words and theres real issues to worry about” this is you, this is what you sound like

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 6d

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 6d

Shouting into the void here but in general, if an article is interesting enough to post a screenshot of, it's interesting enough to post a link to so the people you're sharing with can actually read it, tell who wrote it and where it's from, assess its credibility, etc.

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 6d

This notoriety is ultimately due to the fact that Japanese writing evolved from that of Chinese, a language with substantially different sound and word formation systems.
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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 6d

"One reason why Japanese script deserves its place in this [Sampson's] book is as an illustration of just how cumbersome a script can be and still serve in practice."
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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 6d

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from Yoko Hasegawa, 2014, 'Japanese: A Linguistic Introduction':

In striking contrast to its simple sound system, the Japanese language employs what is arguably the most convoluted writing system ever devised in human history. Sampson (1985: 173) declares:
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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes you gotta step back and gasp in awe at how fucking bonkers the Japanese writing system is.

They were really cookin' with that one. And what they cooked was scalding, spicy, decadent, and laughably heterogeneous. Like really good ramen.

Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · Nov 10

This is v funny to me. Both the phrasing obviously, but also the situation itself. It's world-historically comical that Japanese writing epicycled its way into baroqueness to cope w/ fact that Chinese & Japanese are different languages.

From Yoko Hasegawa's 'Japanese: A Linguistic Introduction'.
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Screenshot of passage from 'Japanese: A Linguistic Introduction', with first sentence highlighted.

4 Writing system

In striking contrast to its simple sound system, the Japanese language employs what is arguably the most convoluted writing system ever devised in human history. Sampson (1985: 173) declares,
"One reason why Japanese script deserves its place in this [Sampson's] book is as an illustration of just how cumbersome a script can be and still serve in practice."
This notoriety is ultimately due to the fact that Japanese writing evolved from that of Chinese, a language with substantially different sound and word formation systems.

4.1 Writing Japanese with kanji
In the late fourth and early fifth centuries AD, Chinese script was introduced to Japan under the tutelage of Korean scholars.

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · May 19

2 novelistic theories of consciousness & identity:

ORBITAL:
"In space, no one can hear you Be Japanese"

NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS:
"In the NICU, no one can hear you Poast"

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Kyle L (bruxist) @haikugoat.bsky.social · 6d

My *mom* was getting high in the late-60s in LA, and inventing formal semantics is simply a lot more transgressive and countercultural than any scene my mom was ever into (e.g. the Dead...)