Tag: emotive

It’s Time to Sue The Telegraph… Twitter’s ‘Tired and Emotional’ Moment

Just for (a moment of) clarity, I don’t mean the journalistic use of Tired and Emotional or Ugandan Discussions, but I do want to talk about that style of phrase from a cultural point of view, where a group of people start to build up in-jokes, phrases and their own lexicon. Stop and think about the shorthand we all use every day. Even phrases that only crop up in the online world such as The Reality Distortion Field around Apple products are ones we are all comfortable using, although that one is easily understood by many outside of our gated