#NerdSingularity

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Have spent the evening trying to work out how to incorporate a particular feature of Twitter hashtags into a spoken conlang. I'm not even ON Twitter, and yet the unofficial use of hashtags as self-commentary, editorializing, metadata, references, and stupid jokes FASCINATES me. Makes me almost want to go to grad school just so's I could do a thesis on it, but barring that, it's an interesting conlang exercise. Yes, it's very much a product of its medium--text-based and part of hyperlinks--but it does present some interesting ideas.

Not sure it'll work out, but it'll be fun to try. Perhaps I will call it Hipsterese.

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[gwalla.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much how the Homestuck tumblr-parody worked, although in at least one case the editorial seemed to come from the author rather than the character.

(Thought the best part may be when a deaf character and a mute one communicate in "sign language"...represented in the dialogue boxes as animated GIF forum macros)