Its just another brainrot meme, it'll die down fo sho
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Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall
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Re: Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall
#22> Some language experts say it is not brain rot What do these language experts call "brain rot"? We're sorting things into brain-rot/not brain-rot now? I do know the definition in a you-know-it-when-you-see-it sort of sense... but I don't think "language experts" should be that dismissive of anything they haven't heard. If you keep telling kids their brains are rotted out and some arbitrary subset of things they thin…
Meme Slang [1]. Some day it will be replaced by a new old word. Looking forward to what gen Beta comes up with. New parents, start the subliminal training now.
[1] - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brain%20rot
Re: Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall
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Re: Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall
#24> Some language experts say it is not brain rot What do these language experts call "brain rot"? We're sorting things into brain-rot/not brain-rot now? I do know the definition in a you-know-it-when-you-see-it sort of sense... but I don't think "language experts" should be that dismissive of anything they haven't heard. If you keep telling kids their brains are rotted out and some arbitrary subset of things they thin…
Meme Slang [1]. Some day it will be replaced by a new old word. Looking forward to what gen Beta comes up with. New parents, start the subliminal training now. [1] - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brain%20rot
Fair point! I think it just feels a little more… mean?
Slang is a value judgement on the word, but no one is a “slanger”. So at least that works fine for talking about language without setting some cultural standard that people using slang are “bad”, just that slang is “bad” and the connection is left up to the gullible reader.
“Brain rot” is a funny over exaggeration, but it’s also talking about the person. Someone/some generation HAS brain rot, which is much more explicit. The tone feels off for a field studying language.
I think all things considered, Gen Alpha is dealing with the nihilism thrown their way alright, laughing through it all is all you can do sometimes
Re: Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meme Slang [1]. Some day it will be replaced by a new old word. Looking forward to what gen Beta comes up with. New parents, start the subliminal training now. [1] - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brain%20rot
Fair point! I think it just feels a little more… mean? Slang is a value judgement on the word, but no one is a “slanger”. So at least that works fine for talking about language without setting some cultural standard that people using slang are “bad”, just that slang is “bad” and the connection is left up to the gullible reader. “Brain rot” is a funny over exaggeration, but it’s also talking about the person. Someone/…
Fair point! I think it just feels a little more… mean?
It is somewhat a pejorative. It's just a matter of time before gen Beta start getting called "Betas". If I find a word to be cringe inducing I just replace it on the fly using FoxReplace. [1] Quoting the replaced words can be interpreted in many ways.
[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxreplace/
Re: Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall
#26IMO most slang is interesting because of the etymology, but 6-7's etymology seems tenuous, made up, almost as if it were invented post-meme. If the origin story is accurate, then I think widespread adoption of 6-7 is "brain rot" only because if you ask someone why they're saying that they probably respond, "Dunno. Funny. 6-7 lol."
Re: Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall
#27One person I was talking to said they assumed that 67 is derived from the longstanding funny number: 69. I think that actually makes perfect sense because 7 ate 9.
Re: Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall
#28> Some language experts say it is not brain rot What do these language experts call "brain rot"? We're sorting things into brain-rot/not brain-rot now? I do know the definition in a you-know-it-when-you-see-it sort of sense... but I don't think "language experts" should be that dismissive of anything they haven't heard. If you keep telling kids their brains are rotted out and some arbitrary subset of things they thin…
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