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Historical Linguistics

Language and history are my nerd-hobbies.

Over the course of using Twitter for 15 years, I found a like-minded community of people interested, motivated, and fluent deep-diving a range of esoteric subjects.

In the fall of 2022, I blew up my account, anonymized it, and drastically cut back on. usage.

I blocked Elon Musk because the site was already Where Nuance Came to Die™, but was proactively being turned from a office water cooler and town square into a digital bier-hall, circa 1923 Munich.

Anyways, I learned that management had implemented a content moderation policy which indicated the word “cis” was considered a slur.

As a language, comedy, and history nerd, I immediately quote-tweeted the owner’s words saying:

Diogenes would be translating “cis” and “cisgender” back into Greek SO fast just to mock, point, and laugh.

Since then, I’ve been put in time-out.

I’ve been canceled!

Finally.

There is a historical linguistic joke (or meme) to tell.

Elon Musk’s ego officially won’t let a cis-hetero dudebro make fun of himself.

For #reasons, it is against policy to be self-deprecating.

If a Cynical teenage boy is censored from mocking the names of states, correlating naked ambition of rulers, and mapping symbolic boundaries, at least…