I have seen this crude, cryptic graffiti scrawled all over town for years. I always assumed it would end up meaning something, but it seems that maybe it's just weird gibberish.
Does anyone know more about this?
https://instagram.com/p/yxGyClPYUD/
I have seen this crude, cryptic graffiti scrawled all over town for years. I always assumed it would end up meaning something, but it seems that maybe it's just weird gibberish.
Does anyone know more about this?
https://instagram.com/p/yxGyClPYUD/
That would appear to be "Fun together".I have seen this crude, cryptic graffiti scrawled all over town for years. I always assumed it would end up meaning something, but it seems that maybe it's just weird gibberish.
Does anyone know more about this?
https://instagram.com/p/yxGyClPYUD/
The other looks like "One among us"?
If you put them both together, it's "The fungus, among us".
The main thread connecting the two words is that they're spelled with a schwa: ə, pronounced 'uh.'
Heavily abridged underlying premise: the ə sound [["uh") is a deeply human way of bridging a gap between separate thoughts. By creating new words out of previously separate thoughts, we're increasing the diversity and nuance of our language. This happens all the time: 'bromance' and 'sexting' were added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2012. Embracing the ə as linguistic glue is a way to accelerate and democratize the process.
Thanks for the feedback, that's the sort of philosophy I had ascertained from it, however I fail to understand why it's written in marker all over town on both vacant and occupied buildings. It seems to straddle the line between thought-provoking street art and crazy, tinfoil hat-wearing gibberish.
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