Not necessarily
Code switching can be very useful for integrating into communities or developing relationships.
Professionals also do it, just in different contexts that people perceive as more “acceptable”. For example, European coauthors will use American spellings when trying to submit to American journals or when working as visiting scholarsin the US and vice versa when the Americans go to Europe or submit to European journals
It’s not weakness it’s respect
Yo dat girl need her hair pulled.
In2 a chipper! 
She likes dumb guys. My sister is like that. Its a female insecurity to be sure.
I think we’re saying the same thing in different ways. There is an inherent contradiction in putting effort into using a communication style in order to appear to not be trying. People that text this way are putting effort in because they want to fit in. If anything, it’s the guy who just uses normal English syntax that just doesn’t care. (Or, as I said, it’s also possible that the guy who is texting with bad grammar is just functionally illiterate and actually knows no other form of written communication.)
When someone puts in effort to code switch to appeal to a certain group, it can be an expression of respect to the group. But if the intended message is that I don’t care and I’m not trying, I just see it as very false and hypocritical.
This is crazy! I’d be pushing with my entire body weight and wouldn’t be able to get her up a jetway.
That’s just a farmers walk with dynamic weight.
Die already
They deserve a dumpster
Ouch!!
We are far too tolerant as a society
I believe in tolerance. I’m extremely libertarian-leaning when it comes to personal choices. You wanna shoot up? Go ahead! I’ll respect your right to make whatever choices you’d like. Trans? Sure! Identify as a whatever? I’ll try to remember your pronouns.
But throwing money at it is a whole other thing. Drugs should be legalized because imprisoning people for using and distributing drugs costs us money as a society. Take the guardrails off and let them do what they need to do.
Same thing diet and other lifestyle/health choices. If immense is comfortable for you, go ahead! But I don’t think we should pay for any of it collectively. If our political system wasn’t so screwed (with the two sides locked in bitter opposition) I believe some of these issues could be sorted out. For example, COPD…I can’t imagine that the majority of Americans wouldn’t support care to a point for people who won’t quit smoking. As active alcoholics are ineligible for liver transplants, so should people making continued known devastating health choices be moved to comfort care. Not a compassionless prison, but just…here’s an inhaler, maybe it’ll help. But no more MRI’s and other costly efforts to track and resolve the issues we know result from these choices. Diet, same.
Perhaps those of us devoted to the pursuit of enhanced fitness would have to make difficult choices, too. Want new knees? Stop running. That sort of thing.
I think the problem is that a large % of people who dont feel the need to take personal accountability for certain things.
That’s the rub. These folks in the FA community have convinced themselves it’s not the food and therefore all the science is wrong and we must accommodate them because it’s “just the body they are living in”.
Dont you dare mention thermodynamics…lol
Besides everyone knows were part plant and we draw energy via photosynthesis.
Wouldn’t mention it when they don’t even understand the more basic concept of energy balance.
Nailed it yet again @bulldog9899! Why is that? Because taking accountability for one’s shortcomings (not being able to control poor diet choices, not making time to exercise daily in order to stay healthy and keep weight in check, etc) can often be painful, it can put the person in an “uncomfortable” state of being, it can even {GASP} be physically uncomfortable (walking, jogging, lifting weights…moving your fat ass lol), and its SO much easier to just say “fuck it” and open another can of pringles as they click on their Netflix icon and sink their fat ass into the couch. It’s another sad example of not immediately seeing the physical/mental/emotional harm from these poor choices, as they mainfest slowly over time, but then what happens is all of a sudden one day a guy can’t even get UP off the couch because he’s so fat, and then he goes to see his doctor and is told he has severe arthersclerosis and also he needs both his knees replaced from arthritis which resulted from having to support a 500lb sack of crap.
Now the above I also don’t feel that the US taxpayer should also have to foot any of that bill, just like liver/body damage from someone who pounded booze for decades, etc. etc. Doesn’t mean I don’t have compassion, as Emily said as well, but rather it is a case of a quote my dad had over the doorway to his office that I always looked at “Don’t let a lack of planning on your part constitute an emergency on MY part”…I think that can similarly be applicable to these things.
Also, @EmilyQ , I completely agree with you as well (as a fellow libertarian, I guess I would, huh?) regarding your example of drugs:
I also feel that their possession/use should be legalized for adults over the age of 18. You want to smoke crack? Go nuts! Do a speedball? Have fun! BUT I also feel that if the drug user breaks laws in order to obtain said drug(s), robbery, carjacking, theft, fraud, etc. then they should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Harm another person in order to obtain your drug or money for your drug? Maximum punishment allowable by law. But yes, locking folks up for doing drugs, having an addiction, costs the US taxpayer however much it’s up to in dollars per year ($40,000 or so?) and incarceration does nothing to address the underlying causal factors FOR that addiction.
