Can anyone translate this into their conlang?
ninja (It's "Totally, like, whatever" by Taylor Mali, by the way.)
Clicky for the video!NatlangsEnglish:
In case you hadn't realized
it has somehow become uncool
to sound like you know what you're talking about?
Or believe strongly in what you're,
like,
saying?
Invisible question marks & parenthetical
'you know?'s and 'you know what I'm saying?'s
have been attaching themselves to the ends of our sentences?
Even when those sentences aren't,
like,
questions?
Declarative sentences,
so-called because they used to like, you know,
declare things to be true:
Okay?
As opposed to other things that are like totally,
you know:
not!
They've been infected by this tragically cool and totally hip interrogative tone?
As if I'm saying,
'Don't think I'm a nerd just 'cause I've like noticed this, okay?
I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions.
I'm just like inviting you to join me on the bandwagon of my own uncertainty.'
What has happened
to our
conviction?
Where are the limbs out on which we once walked?
Have they been like chopped down with the rest of the rainforest?
You know?
Or do we have, like nothin' to say?
Has society just become so filled with these conflicting feelings of nywleh:
that we’ve just gotten to the point where we’re the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along,
since, you know, a
long time ago?
So I emplore you,
I entreat you,
and I challenge you,
to speak with conviction.
To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.
Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker,
It is not enough these days to simply “question authority.”
You gotta speak with it, too.
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