#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.

Comments

[baroncognito.livejournal.com]

The idea of hashtags in spoken language makes me think of Kevin Nealon.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

*attempts to find the Subscribe To This Newsletter button*

...tell me more! Because I too find this kind of self-aware metadata interesting. (And unlike the metadata of, say, Facebook, I actually follow how it works.)

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Aside from the technical hyperlinking aspect, I'm not sure how distinct they are linguistically from parenthetical expressions, #hypertext #language #wordplay #triplenerdscore