• BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    This is nothing. Wait until you hear high schoolers addressing “chat” irl while not connected to any kind of chat.

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      8 months ago

      I saw people talking about that as being perhaps the first fourth-person pronoun. Pretty interesting idea.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      But “chatting” also refers to talking, no?
      Unless I misunderstood your comment. I tend to do that.

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      talk in a friendly and informal way.

      Very much so. Not sure why I needed to verify it, but I would probably verify it’s indeed 2024 if you told me that it’s actually 1786, just to make sure it’s not me thinking that.

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        8 months ago

        Twitch streamers usually address their live chat as “chat”. The person you are replying to heard high schoolers addressing chat, talking like they were streaming, even when they clearly weren’t.