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I presumed is was another example of the infantilizing of young adults today. 'Look at my cute pupper!' 'Just got dishy installed today Elon!'

• kortex 5y ago
  It's not "infantilizing," it's linguistic mutation, and it's what languages do [0], for all manner of reasons. Text lacks intonation, plain text even more so, and internet dialect tends to evolve ways to add emphasis. In this case "pupper" is inflected to suggest endearment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law