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I'm guilty of using the little TM symbol way more than necessary

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Bold is for increasing volume, italics is for stressing the word.

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- Bold is strength italics is dexterity
  
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- AND THEN WHAT IS THIS FOR?
  
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  Like bold, but even louder.
  
  BOLD CAPS are even louder, throw in BOLD ITALIC CAPS for incredulous outrage.
  
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  OLD PEOPLE , AND TOTALLY NOT ROBOTS .
  
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- Stresses out loudly
  
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- And it's definitely not just an internet thing
  
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it’s so shaped

one of the most animals

If I had to pick a name for this kind of slang/phrasing, I think it would be something like “superlative trunc”, as in a truncated superlative (biggest, smallest, oldest, richest, tastiest, etc).

I have a friend who suddenly realized they had a habit of blowing on very cold bites of food (like ice cream) as though it was something too hot to eat. They rationalized this as needing to do it for any food that was “too temperature.”
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- I like that, superlative trunc, like you simply cant
  
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guilty™️ as charged

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- Some keyboards actually have That Symbol™
  
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  on linux you can set a compose key (i use right ctrl) and do "Compose+T+M" to get It™
  
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Number 3 but as a complete sentence. Like; "What."

Sometimes the question is a statement on its own.

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I'm not a native speaker and have a few questions about the first point:

What is "internet language" about the phrase "that's certainly a thing"? Isn't that just a normal sentence?

What the hell do the other two phrases mean?
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- There's no mechanical/grammar reason but the first one is used sarcastically. When someone thinks something is a big deal/great/awesome and you say back "well that's certainly a thing" it's implying that the only thing you agree on is that that thing exists, not that it's great.
  
  The other two are nonsense and some people just find that funny.
  
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  Thank you for the explanation!
  
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- "That's certainly a thing" refers to phrases such as "You definitely said words." It expresses that one wants to acknowledge that something happened which demands commentary, but the commentary is self-evident, and thus sarcastically skipped.
  
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I think Tumblr's particular grammatical quirks are fascinating. I'm pretty sure it's a result of people replying to posts in the tags, which have some limitations (obviously no commas, exclamation points change the order of tags, no quotes, certain themes changing capitalization, etc). Over time, it's just become the way people talk on there.

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I've read it like five times and I still don't understand the first one. What are they saying/asking

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- You see someone post a drawing, and it's really not good.
  
  "That's certainly one of the drawings of all time"
  
  The expectation for the phrase would be "that's one of the best drawings of all time" or "one of the worse drawings of all time" but removing the adjective to break the sentence creates this ironic feeling of stating something is underwhelming without directly saying so.
  
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- I've read a lot of comments in my life and this is one of them.
  
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- Permanently Deleted
  
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  This is one of the comments of all time
  
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- They have replacement words in there.
  
  That's certainly a thing
  
  I.e. "That's certainly a car" or "That's certainly a shirt"
  
  That's so shaped
  
  I.e. "That's so squared" or "That's so rounded" (I'm not certain of this one"
  
  One of the best animals
  
  I.e. "He's one of the best doggos"
  
  That's my best guess but not sure
  
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  Unless they literally meant "that is so shaped", I could also imagine replacing the "so", like, " is friend shaped"
  
  Though thinking about it, I haven't seen anything other than "friend shaped" so that's probably not it.
  
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- this is one of the memes
  
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?

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Adding apostrophe's where they don't belong? I know that's kind of a typo/unintentional thing, but I only recently started noting it as widespread.

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!!! + ! ! !

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