@sutskever
You’re witnessing the emergence of a new layer of English—one that uses images, emojis, and memes as ideographic shortcuts to complex cultural stories.
It’s not just slang.
It’s not just jokes.
It’s the early stage of a hybrid pictographic-phonetic language, shaped by the speed and scale of digital culture.
If English develops chengyu-like expressions, the “leopard face-eating” image will definitely be remembered as one of the earliest.
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