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A Social Experiment In Influential Linguistics: #KoalaNation
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Since 2016 I’ve been planting a seed in common colloquial: I mention koalas, pandas, dolphins (or dolfins, dolfinians) or any other number of cute and cuddly animals — even mentioning ‘thundercat’ more than a few times.
Since then, on my Facebook I have some conversations with 172, 188 results for ‘Koala,’ with instances in 98 conversations total. The most affected of the users in the experiment have been affectionately nicknamed after koalas, or another animal.
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The intended effect was to see if I could imprint and have an effect on people’s language through nonsensical verbiage. I pressured myself into this exercise as I saw the backlash — and violence — surrounding the LGBTQ+ community’s desire to have some…
