certainly not frosty, but it's maybe a tepid take in this forum's contexts (though i recognize this is also just a very easily instinctive figure of speech for opinions you know are disagreeable/contentious but believe you have to establish) where people probably agree but don't readily harass the users of "silly" about it beside a few people, while at the same time probably not harassing each other for saying so. it's complicated and weird, but that's sociological phenomena in general
as for the take itself idk, at face-value that's fine to think, and i have my own issues with it too. at the same time i enjoy its playfulness and use it myself, because beside the social bonding of being with people that share the same language, there's also the premise that there is a particular kind of self-serving humor in it that becomes my own reward to savor for playing with language that feels a certain way. certainly won't feel that way to many other people, which is why we have arguments in ot over whether its a big deal at all that someone is sarcastic/ironic or whether they're sincere-- kind of a terribly flat and imprecise example, but it's an attempt at approximating other examples that i'm not really readily able to materialize in mind, and i think some intuitive points can be given for that if they had more clarity
idk how you particularly view choice of diction as humor, but i'm sure people here have some kind of relationship with it given the ease of use afforded to the strangest pseudo-insults in threads and the most disaffected slurs in discord channels-- they exist because they're funny to someone, somehow, as absolutely perplexing as it is
that's actually kind of missing your point though, i'm sort of abstracting this to a general thought i've had about use of language as a vehicle for culture for a long time. what i mean by bringing that up is... i suppose, that this might be an example of a conflict of cultures that annoy you? no, actually i'm pretty sure the rationale could actually just be more direct than that and be merely an "i just don't like it" or "i think this makes someone sound fake and saccharine" or idk whatever it would be
...i'm not so sure after all. i just thought seeing this opinion be shared was an interesting event to think about, and i think i'm hoping for something like an elaboration of what that actually means, why that would be annoying, under the assumption there's more depth and precedence to things like this
to briefly bring in my problem with "silly", is when it's all there is, when it feels arbitrarily meaningless and stale and loses its ability to add the texture it was there for. but for someone else who uses it, it would be entirely effective for creating the cultural atmosphere they wanted. i don't mind that specifically because the content itself isn't at anyone's expense, it's a sincere playful and whimsical appeal... or at least it was, until people used the ever-consuming omnipresent reach of irony to mock it, so it's also pretty easy now to view "silly" in the contexts of how people signify something pitiable or infantile or dumb, something to use as a demeaning caricature of someone else's response and enjoyment of something
as for the take itself idk, at face-value that's fine to think, and i have my own issues with it too. at the same time i enjoy its playfulness and use it myself, because beside the social bonding of being with people that share the same language, there's also the premise that there is a particular kind of self-serving humor in it that becomes my own reward to savor for playing with language that feels a certain way. certainly won't feel that way to many other people, which is why we have arguments in ot over whether its a big deal at all that someone is sarcastic/ironic or whether they're sincere-- kind of a terribly flat and imprecise example, but it's an attempt at approximating other examples that i'm not really readily able to materialize in mind, and i think some intuitive points can be given for that if they had more clarity
idk how you particularly view choice of diction as humor, but i'm sure people here have some kind of relationship with it given the ease of use afforded to the strangest pseudo-insults in threads and the most disaffected slurs in discord channels-- they exist because they're funny to someone, somehow, as absolutely perplexing as it is
that's actually kind of missing your point though, i'm sort of abstracting this to a general thought i've had about use of language as a vehicle for culture for a long time. what i mean by bringing that up is... i suppose, that this might be an example of a conflict of cultures that annoy you? no, actually i'm pretty sure the rationale could actually just be more direct than that and be merely an "i just don't like it" or "i think this makes someone sound fake and saccharine" or idk whatever it would be
...i'm not so sure after all. i just thought seeing this opinion be shared was an interesting event to think about, and i think i'm hoping for something like an elaboration of what that actually means, why that would be annoying, under the assumption there's more depth and precedence to things like this
to briefly bring in my problem with "silly", is when it's all there is, when it feels arbitrarily meaningless and stale and loses its ability to add the texture it was there for. but for someone else who uses it, it would be entirely effective for creating the cultural atmosphere they wanted. i don't mind that specifically because the content itself isn't at anyone's expense, it's a sincere playful and whimsical appeal... or at least it was, until people used the ever-consuming omnipresent reach of irony to mock it, so it's also pretty easy now to view "silly" in the contexts of how people signify something pitiable or infantile or dumb, something to use as a demeaning caricature of someone else's response and enjoyment of something
