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Today I caught myself rolling my eyes as I scrolled past someone enthusiastically promoting their latest OTP, and I hate that. I'm in no position to judge a complete stranger's reasons for choosing what interests them, and I don't like it when people want to tell everyone what they *should* be writing. I do, however, think it's good to question my own preferences and assumptions when I see people bring up neglected characters/pairings/genres or whatever.

So the questioning is what this is about, though it's about a use of words.

Spoons.

I don't like using the term myself, as it makes me feel labelled sick. (My brain, sometimes it makes no sense.) So maybe I notice it more, I don't know. I think it's great for its original purpose, and I like that people know what it means, and when I see people use it about themselves I assume they have a good reason to do so.

But if your post is along the lines of 'I did a full day of work and omg long hours and overtime too, ran a marathon at lunchtime, cured cancer in my coffee break, and astronaut training tonight was soooo tough and I was going to finish that fic update you're waiting for tonight but I'm sorry I have no spoons left'... then maybe consider that it might not be the most appropriate phrase to use.

Everything is relative, but really. You're allowed to be tired after all that. And needless to say, I'm jealous of the astronaut training. *g*

Date: 2010-09-05 10:37 pm (UTC)
pauraque: bird flying (Default)
From: [personal profile] pauraque
Yeah, sometimes I find myself looking at it from two angles at once. On a linguistics level, semantic change is interesting -- extremely so -- and one records and analyzes the full range of usage without prescribing which directions of change are "good" and which are "bad".

Then there's the personal level. I mean, it is true to say that using "gay" to mean "bad" is a case of specific-to-general semantic drift, but it is also true to say that it hurts people's feelings. And that's the point where I find it quite justifiable to take off the linguist hat and start prescribing usage all over the place. :P

Clearly our spoons and your knives are running away together.

Date: 2010-09-05 10:49 pm (UTC)
pauraque: bird flying (Default)
From: [personal profile] pauraque
BTW, are you cross-posting identically between DW and LJ? I'm trying to have each person only friended in one place.

Date: 2010-09-05 11:09 pm (UTC)
pauraque: bird flying (Default)
From: [personal profile] pauraque
Basically, I don't want to miss anybody's posts, so if there's any difference I just keep a person on both lists, but if it's strictly identical crossposting, I pick one (generally DW unless they're trying to concentrate comments on LJ). I read both flists every day and don't intend to stop, so it's just a matter of avoiding duplication when possible. :)

Date: 2010-09-06 01:05 am (UTC)
pauraque: bird flying (Default)
From: [personal profile] pauraque
Right now I'm being kind of strange and posting most fandom/general-interest stuff on LJ and most personal stuff on DW. I don't feel like it matters if I don't have people friended on LJ because I barely ever posted anything locked there (except stuff like signal-boosting for secret gift comms), and I never do anymore. I haven't imported anything and I don't know how it works if you've already posted to the account.

I'm just being flaky about the whole thing, heh. So many people are cross-posting or have moved-but-not-really, it feels like my whole group of fandom and ex-fandom friends have one leg here and one leg there. I don't know what's going to end up happening with it all, though if LJ keeps pissing people off so royally, well, that'll be that eventually. :P

Date: 2010-09-06 10:10 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ariadneelda
Did you import your whole journal over? I don't even know if I still can since I have posts here

I believe you can. Check out this thread: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_releases/61333.html?thread=3837589#t3837589 I think it answers a lot of things about importing.

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