Sociolinguistic Artifacts

This is a Youtube-Shorts video. The Dvita and Curtis reading reminded me of this video I came across a while ago. The poster, Sami Landri, uses mostly French (from Montreal), and English phrases ("girlboss," "come on, lez-queen!") are used for gay-affect, like "le coming-out" but a bit more modern. Although, this is pretty different from the article because the audience, location, and communicative intent are all different in a number of ways... [Published on 12-16-2023]