Creativity. Its boundless. it keeps you up at night. U can feel it smell it touch it. Its everything. whether u mean to or not u are bound to create. take American slang for example. slang can be seen in two ways, one very empowering, one very limiting. Lets attack the latter first. When slang is compared to grammatical english, as if the person using the slang wishes to speak book english and is simply unable, then it is considered dumb, stupid, ignorant, etc. Limiting. But, if one approaches slang from a creative perspective, there is a much different picture to be painted. If i, for example, say bruh, i do not mean to imply that im unable to pronounce, spell or define, brother, since the person im talkin abt is most likely not my actual brother. But, wat i mean to evoke, is adhesion to a subculture, as small as it may be, of people that understand wat im saying. Those that understand my meaning, they realize that we have a common bond of exclusive language that others cannot participate in. If one has agency over his speech, they control everything, who can listen, who can understand, who can b close to them. Empowering. not to mention the creativity. Etymology. when u think of Etymology, u think merriam-webster, u think dictionary, u think latin, u think obscure dumb yadda yadda. NO. Etymology is creativity. Its exciting. Y? take the word, eating. If i say Im Eating, bruh or Steph Curry was eating in the tourney i do not mean he was having {Hamburgers n Franks}, Gus. im saying that he is winning, which comes from doing well, which comes from more societies where weight is equated to wealth and prosperity, where if u look like jabba the hut, ur prolly the king. Thats Etymology. thats crazy and mindblowing. and thats wat excites me about slang. Not that i cant speak properly. But sometimes i dont want to. I want to say bruh… and i can agency over my speech, over my interactions, over my subculture. the world is amazing.
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