Why Everything Online Is Suddenly Cringe

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. There’s nothing like a good interjection: Those little words or phrases that litter our language () for no semantic reason beyond the need to express an emotion too deep to be contained by classical grammar. You’re just going along, reading some writing, and —an interjection takes you to the next level of visceral understanding. … you can keep your verbs and nouns. . Just leave me those s and s and s and, s, and I’ll be a happy man. Defiant and independent, interjections don’t even change morphologically for other words, . They slip between the cracks of a sentence to spice up the experience, like syntactic hot sauce. They also have the unique power to stand alone in a sentence. . . And, , there may be no word that speaks to the deepest, most inexpressible feeling of the internet than the interjection .