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this shit got me reachin for the luger
You realize Lugers were very famously the weapons of the Nazi officer class, and Einstein very famously had to flee Nazi Germany?
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Most people don’t eagerly place themselves in the part of the Nazis.
Yes, you have correctly dissected that the joke is morbid hyperbole to cause a shock response that gives way to elation upon realization of the obvious irony in their overreaction to Einstein speaking like generation Z.
Ok bro that empathizes with Nazis
And then they fuck around and wonder why I call .world a nazi bar
Hans get the flammenwerfer
Bruh, yo facts bussin’ on God fr fr
Someone pass me the Garand, there’s a YOOTH
oooo i did not know that, i was quoting some of plummcorp’s videos
This never gets old
Man, “phenomenological” took me like five tries to figure out
Fancy memes
Shout out to the midnight gospel for putting that word in my lexicon
My fiancée and I were talking about this the other day, and the conclusion we reached was that our language, as it always has, is evolving, and these new phrases are just as valid as anything anyone has said before. People don’t want to accept it, because they think of Internet memes as silly, and that’s where a lot of this language comes from (there’s also racism involved, because, of course there is), but it’s too late. That’s what English is now. Sucks to suck, fam.
Scientific papers should be timeless. Can you imagine the hell of having to research the pop culture and slang of an era just to understand a paper written in it?
To be fair, I think that’s what the part after the colon was for.
Yeah this kind of casual title is very rare, and it’s always just a small addition to an otherwise straightforward title. No one would allow for a purely cheeky title and no author would want one anyway. The first thing people use to judge the relevance of your paper is the title. If it’s not immediately obvious what it’s about, they’re not going to look further. Immediately obvious for someone in a related field, anyway.
Tbf, it wouldn’t be hard to just have an LLM translate it for you.
What if language evolves to where the consensus opinion is to gatekeep silliness out of academia though? Evolution cuts both ways, English could theoretically evolve into a fully prescriptivized language like French, and that’s just as valid an evolution.
That certainly could happen. It doesn’t seem very likely though, especially since so many different cultures already have their own versions of English, and the main two rarely agree on anything.
I mean, it seems like that’s the cultural push-and-pull depicted here: Some people don’t like it and make that known. If their opinion ends up prevailing and papers containing silliness end up being rejected by the major journals of their field, doctoral comittees etc., eventually the silliness may be driven out and gatekept.
We fans of harmless humour would lament as much as the guy in the OP laments now. We would presumably attempt to encourage silliness, as the guy in the OP does now.
Consensus swinging one way naturally doesn’t magically mean we now have to change our opinions to fit the consensus. Right now, language evolves in our favour, and we will attempt to support and leverage that evolution because it suits us.
I’ll do you one better.
Not only is the language itself evolving, but we acquire more and more idioms and jargon as society moves through the industrial age. Right now, english has this playful mishmash of nautical, railroad, and now computing idioms reflecting each technological epoch’s mark on speech over the last 200+ years.
German chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote about how we are in a time of change cause the power structures of the world are shifting. He called the chapter about Russia “the empire strikes back”.
I don’t see any credentials after Michael’s name, so, I’ll side with the published author this time.
Some people think repping their credentials is conceited. Independent of that, I’m on team do-what-you-want-it’s-your-title-just-make-sure-it’s-descriptive-so-the-reader-still-knows-what-the-article-is-about.
As long as you don’t make your title incomprehensible to anyone who isn’t a native English speaker
Incomprehensible now, or 5 years from now?
I honestly love this approach for eye-grabbing titles to otherwise dull topics.
If there’s a problem, yo I’ll solve it: Application of Large Language Models for resolving deep problem sets.
She got a point
