The Atlantic has a phenomenal ability to take something kind of interesting (trends in language, slang, and culture via social media) and write about it in the worst way possible
Like, I think it is kind of interesting to talk about how the Internet has eroded the boundaries between subcultures in a way that causes a lot of creativity and enjoyment, but also flattens out cultural diversity.
But he's just kind of mumbling through it.
English is beautiful because it’s a bastard language with broken rules that steals from everything and everywhere. Old English, Latin, German, French, Japanese loan words, American Slang and AAVE.
And people look at this mess try to police it? Dweebs.
