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For a long time there was a clear distinction between oral traditions (ranging from the playgrounds' "nu-uh / yeah-huh" to the formality of courtroom argument) and literary traditions (ranging from birdseed journalism to the talmudic structure of scientific publication); has digitalisation blurred the boundary sufficiently that discourse is now in a superposition of worlds: where enthymematic memes can be juxtaposed with links to formal support?

(compare https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1702486438-20231213.png )

attempting to translate to my language: the Somali silsilad tradition provides a pseudonymous forum in which posting requires proof-of-work, namely the placing of an argument into poetic form — the nature of this work having been until now substantial, I hope GPT has not lead to silsilad-spam.

EDIT: speaking of talmudic:

> Second, there is a custom by readers and recorders of poems of providing commentaries in prose, describing the circumstances under which they were composed, explaining obscure passages and allusions to persons, events, or customs that are no longer known to the audience.

https://africasacountry.com/2023/12/poetry-nationalism-and-a...

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