语言与文风2015medium.com编辑精选
如今我们都在这样写作
That Way We’re All Writing Now
导读
文章讨论互联网时代一种新的写作方式：用梗图、固定句式和极简句法，把私人瞬间写成可共享的普遍情绪。对写作者来说，它既展示了句法实验如何承载反讽、羞耻与共鸣，也提醒模板化表达会磨平经验的独特性。读它可以更自觉地判断：自己是在创新语气，还是在重复现成情绪。
可以直接用的写作要点
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写个人体验时，先抓住具体、独特甚至尴尬的细节，再让共鸣从特殊性中自然产生，而不是直接套用“大家都懂的瞬间”。
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把省略、错序、故意误拼、/s 这类句法标记当作语气工具：每次使用都要问它增加了什么情绪或反讽，而不是成为新的模板。
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观察网络梗时，不只复制句式，拆解它省略了什么、强调了什么，再把这套节奏用进自己的句子。
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警惕“普遍化感受”的舒适感：如果一句话能被百万条帖子替换，它可能没有写出你真正的经验。
HN 评论精选
模板化写作把个体感受普遍化，容易磨平独特性，让私人交流变成文化工业流水线。
“它让你的感受显得普遍”——这句话普遍化的是写作者自己的感受，不是读者的。就像宗教或有效利他主义，同质化传播（表情包、暴走漫画、“那一刻……”句式）是另一种把个体性交给“伟大普遍”的愉悦。它强调经验中共同、易消化的一面，而非独特、特殊、古怪的一面。具体触发经验是什么并不重要；传达的情绪是百万人早已感受过的。文化工业不再从上方强加，我们的私人交流已成文化工业，我们是维持它运转的劳工。
Jimmy查看英文原文
>It makes your feeling seem universal It universalizes the feeling of the writer, not the reader. Much like religion or the Effective Altruism movement, the rise of homogenized communication (image macros, rage comics, the "that moment when..." style of writing), is yet another way of obtaining the pleasant feeling of subjugating your individuality to the Great Universal. This style of communication emphasizes what is common and easily digestible about an experience, rather than what is unique, particular, peculiar. The fact that the token experience varies from communication to communication - Tinder swipes one moment, getting your class canceled the next - is irrelevant. The only emotion communicated is one that has been felt a million times before by a million people. The Culture Industry [1] no longer needs to be imposed upon us from above. Our private communications have become the Culture Industry, and we are the army of laborers that keep it running. [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry
网络梗和句法实验是语言创新的引擎，写作者可观察其表达情绪的新方式。
喜欢这段：网络像寒武纪爆发，诞生大量“长触手的语言生命体”；如今人们写的字远多于前互联网时代，实验量巨大；看文字游戏以大肠杆菌速度进化是时代乐趣。多数句法变形梗是在找表达感受的新巧方式。贴图论坛看似幼稚胡闹，却证明是新文化和新语言的引擎。
duncanawoods查看英文原文
I liked this. Particularly: I’m a fan of all the betentacled linguistic lifeforms that have emerged from our cambrian explosion online. These days, people write insanely more text than they did before the Internet and mobile phones came along. So the volume of experimentation is correspondingly massive and, for me, delightful. One joy of our age is watching wordplay evolve at the pace of E.coli. and Most of these syntax-morphing memes consist of us trying to find clever new ways to express our feelings. The effect of image boards really is fascinating. What at first seemed to be childish screwing around is proving to be an amazing engine of new culture and language. such wow
句法演化——省略、错序、标记——是写作者主动增加反讽和情绪层次的工具。
受 Pinker、McWhorter 等语言学家影响，我认为这是为传达意义和情绪而发生的句法演化；不只是大小写、标点，还包括奇怪词序、故意省略、故意拼错。不同意用文化工业解释；人们是通过新句法渠道分享额外含义（情绪、反讽）。例如写反讽：1）明标签“（刚才那是反讽）”；2）HTML 标签 <sarcasm>；3）/s；4）省略语法“Because jobs.”。这种减法制造突兀感，传达愚蠢或荒谬。
jasode查看英文原文
I've been convinced by linguists (Steven Pinker, John McWhorter, etc) that it looks like evolution of syntax to convey meaning and emotions. Syntax evolution isn't just introduction of old ideas like lowercase+uppercase, Capitalization rules, punctuation (spaces between words, periods & commas to mark rests & beats, etc). Syntax evolution also includes new strange word reorderings, deliberate word omissions, and deliberate word misspellings. I disagree with the other comment about The Culture Industry as an explanation. That's not relevant. Instead, people are trying to share extra meaning (emotion, irony, etc) through extra channels of new syntax manipulation. Let's say a writer wants to be sarcastic when writing out bad reasoning. Examples: Congress keeps buying tanks the Army does not need. Why? 1) explicit labeling of concept with backreference: "It's good because it maintains jobs. (That was sarcasm.)" 2) HTML tag inspired syntax: "<sarcasm>It's good because it maintains jobs.</sarcasm>" 3) /s (inspired by Unix command line switch?) "It's good because it maintains jobs. /s" 4) grammar incorrect because of missing words "Because jobs." (It's as if the general public is creating syntax options in English to parallel the computer language verbosity of Objective-C and Java EE to terseness of Perl and Haskell.) That type of word subtraction creates an interesting abruptness that conveys to the reader a meaning of idiocy or lunacy. Similar phrases can be constructed like "because freedom" or "because science". Why is the TSA now performing mandatory cavity searches of preschoolers? "Because freedom." The substraction of words may have been motivated by the mechanics of 2 thumbs typing on smartphones or the Twitter 140 char limit but I think even desktop users with 100wpm typing speed have adopted it.
互联网把私密微小羞耻变成共同经验，写作可从具体小尴尬中建立共鸣。
暴走漫画、从句、FML 帖子、推文、匿名评论等，让分享从未说出口的微小瞬间更容易；然后大家意识到自己都能共鸣。秘密的微小羞耻披露成为现代人类经验的常见部分。
vatys查看英文原文
> It makes your feeling seem universal. Rage comics, subordinate clauses, FML postings, tweets, anonymous comment threads, etc. The internet makes it easier to share the kind of tiny moments you'd never speak of. Then, suddenly, we all realized that we could all relate to them. Secret micro-shame revelation becomes a commonplace part of the modern human experience. Isn't the internet wonderful?
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