Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell
Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
I think the issue is possibly rooted deeper than just usage on steam. I mean I know steam could do more to fight it, but I mean…has said US senator looked at the newly elected government and the people that voted for said government? I mean damn dude.
The rot is deep and is very soon going to be considered “default” behavior.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Your number of “i mean”-s per post is ridiculous.
millie@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Omg this is such a helpful comment! Good job! <3
SplooshArmstrong@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Omg yours too! :^)
Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Yeah I mean, idk what happened there. Brain wasn’t computing well I guess.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
All good. Looks like my comment got axed for some reason, even though I’ve intended it as a positive critique.
I’ve noticed that people like using “I mean” as a filler or figure of speech. But when you keep seeing it over and over again, especially multiple times in a single comment, or in a comment chain, it’s really noticable.
I used to say “uhm” out loud a lot while forming sentences. It’s a placeholder to give your mind a pause to catch up what you are trying to say. A speech therapist highlighted this to me and got me to slowly phase it out by first squelching it and just internalizing the “uhm”, then completely getting rid of it and rely on silent pauses instead. It helped me realize these speechpatterns, doesn’t matter whether they are used as a run on or a pause. And “I mean” really caught on the past few years as a faux intellectual discourse marker, so it’s extra noticable for me.
Looks like there’s some more about its usage here:
psychologytoday.com/…/why-i-mean-became-the-new-t…
Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Yeah “uhms” and the dreaded “like” are also an issue for me too. I would like to eliminate it from my vocabulary entirely. I make videos and live stream, and I notice it a lot when I watch playback. It’s pretty terrible. Did you have a hard time ridding them from your speech? I should try fixing that.