A G F E
Sing, muse, of the large basket of nachos,
crowned in cheese, bane of arteries.
Sing, muse, of the carton of ice cream,
drowned in fudge, my blood is sludge.
Sing, muse, of my epic weight,
of my thunder thighs, O', how my body dies.
mfpmkx · 3 points · Posted at 03:03:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
axepig · 107 points · Posted at 18:07:18 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Such a nice word that has been completely denolished and became a shitty meme :/
[deleted] · 81 points · Posted at 20:16:43 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I had one of these girls in my gym class who would shout "oh my god epic fail!" every time she missed the hoop playing basketball. She was also not very good.
Why, she's the one bringing them together. Odysseus is fighting Persians, Gilgamesh and Enkidu are trying to double team Helen, and Beowulf just wants to witness some legendary beauty to cancel out the vision of Grendel's mother from his mind.
Came here to say this. If you ride, or ski, go to any/most Vail Resorts mountain. You can use your Epic Pass to get on the mountain, perhaps get a lesson at the Epic Academy, test your skills at the Epic Racing, have an Epic Burger for lunch, and when you'll all done you can check what lifts you used that day on EpicMix. If they were honest they'd just all their prices as epic.
I know two different software programs called Epic, so that really ruined it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:28:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank you. This guy Jesse I knew would say everything was "Epic". I am so glad I don't have to hear that word come out of his idiotic mouth ever again.
Gay has gone from happy--->homosexual--->lame/derogatory term for homosexual--->ok word for homosexual.
rangda · 101 points · Posted at 18:19:20 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
It meant lighthearted and cheerful, then it was used to hint about people being sexually uninhibited in a socially unacceptable way, both men and women. Prostitutes and people that would sleep around freely.
That's how it became associated with homosexuality in the first place, with gay sex being seen as something that only men with poor morals would be doing.
And then it became a slur, and then the gay acceptance movement used the word to describe themselves and effectively bleached all negative connotation out of it.
This is a successful example of mass cultural acceptance through the embracing of the slur.
I wonder why then, the 'N' word is still so divisive? With the inclusion into music, culture, and literature of the African American community, why is this word still considered taboo or inappropriate in most situations, while gay is now completely acceptable?
Is this still persistent because of race being an obvious identifying characteristic, and sexual preference is not? Could it be indicative of the deep roots of racism vs. the relatively recent emergence of 'gay culture'? Or, does it show the cohesion of the 'gay community' in an effort to disarm the word, while the African American community is still polarized on the usage of their own slurs (as in some members use the word freely, while others are insulted by it, quite often dependent upon the race of the person speaking or recieving the term)?
This has always fascinated me!
mnefu · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:57 on May 20, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is a successful example of mass cultural acceptance through the embracing of the slur.
Is it? At what point in history was "gay" specifically a slur for gay (in the modern sense) people? At what point was there a specific effort to "reclaim" it? I kind of get the feeling that you are jumping to this conclusion just because you want an excuse to use slurs.
IIRC the history of the word is pretty complicated. A few decades back it had a much more broad definition, it was used in kind of the same way we use "LGBT" now. Going back further it had twin meanings along the lines of "jolly" and "sexually immoral".
Wog.... As in the previously rude was of addressing Greeks, Italians, ect. But then a group of Greeks made a movie called Wogboy which was popular enough to warrant a sequel. Since that time wog hasn't really been offensive anymore.
Was it ever a slur by itself? It was and still is used as a negative term for basically everything in the world but was calling a gay person simply "gay" ever an insult in itself? Did gay people ever not want to be referred to as gay?
I have lived in UK my whole life have never once outside of a book seen people use it in that form
[deleted] · 40 points · Posted at 20:12:35 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's kinda weird looking at works that used the word 'gay' back when it meant happy.
Suddenly there's a whole sub-plot in The Great Gatsby where Daisy becomes a lesbian, but somehow becomes cleansed of her homosexuality when she meets Gatsby again.
A great suggestion I got to avoid this is to say why it is interesting, that way you will seem more sincere and it will keep the conversation going, especially if you have a follow up question.
KemSem · 2 points · Posted at 08:45:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, this is definitely the best approach! Also I find I naturally ask a bunch of questions about things that interest me, anyway, so I'm sure my sincerity must come across even when my vocabulary is lacking. I try to never just leave it at "interesting" and nothing else, but it does make me sad such a fitting word has lost all its power.
A friend of mine used to come to me with her life problems and I would genuinly say thats a shame. Because it was over MSN she thought i wasn't being genuine and stopped talking to me about that stuff for a long time.
Damn, yeah, I can understand both sides of that story. Text communication is the worst for words like these, especially if the person is already feeling a bit self-conscious or defensive.
I remember when I first read The Chronicles of Narnia (I think it was in Prince Caspian), there was this part where they are in this fortress that was described as 'awesome' and I was really confused because the word seemed so out of place. When actually, that was the 'correct' usage of awesome.
Nah, Aslan did a sick grind across a parapet and in the process slammed down a monster without spilling it.
Come to think of it. That might fall into the "rad" category.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 02:03:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Legitness" comes to mind as an illegitimate version of "legitimacy". I have conversed with people using this "word" who did not know the word "legitimate" or "legitimacy" existed.
The word should be able to describe something like a crazy murder spree. Because it actually fills you with awe. But of course, in this day and age, hearing about a shooting and calling it "awesome" will get you a whole lot of weird looks.
I would feel alot better if they called them life tricks. Because when I think of life hacks, I think of going into your dna and switching some things around so i can have a third arm (strictly for researching purposes), not "what can I put into my back pockets so i can sit more comfortably... IM HACKING GUYS!!!".
My head figuratively combusted at the time my brain received an electrical impulse from the optic nerve triggered by your parent comment entitled "Literally" to this post concerning overused words.
They changed the meaning of literally a few years back in the dictionary. Copy/Paste
"According to the dictionary, “literally” now also means “figuratively”
Thanks in part to the overuse of "literally," Merriam-Webster says the word can now mean its exact opposite."
Exactly. The purpose of literally is to mean something that sounds fake or like hyperbole but is actually truth, but now that literally can be used for exaggeration, the entire purpose of the word is literally gone.
[deleted] · 58 points · Posted at 20:48:28 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's how I feel. The point of the word "literally" should be to say "No, this isn't hyperbole, this really happened", so if people are using it as hyperbole... what then?
It's one thing when people are like "My head literally exploded", because it's obvious that didn't really happen, but when people are like "I spent literally 30 minutes writing this" or "I literally peed my pants", how can anyone tell if you were exaggerating or you meant you actually peed your pants and had to take them off because they were wet? I guess people could use "actually" for this purpose, but it doesn't sound the same.
Actually in that context the use of literally works, because the speaker is indicating that they literally did this rather than "I peed my pants" meaning I laughed a lot.
Sevrek · 2 points · Posted at 03:21:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The same argument can be made for literally every other hyperbole
Well, just consider the context of the sentence. Does it make sense that the person would have actually peed their pants? And generally someone provides more detail after a sentence like that. If all else fails just ask, but that should very rarely be necessary. How many times has this issue actually affected you?
The point of the word "literally" should be to say "No, this isn't hyperbole, this really happened", so if people are using it as hyperbole... what then?
Then you use "literally" in a sentence and add "and I'm not saying this as a hyperbole".
The trouble is that before literally became a figurative intensifier it was used to intensify true statements, and we still use it both ways. If you remove literally and still can't tell whether the sentence is true or figurative, then it is likely that literally isn't the problem.
Well literally still means what it's meant to mean, if can just also be used in a figurative sense. You figure out which meaning it has in a sentence based on context, and if you're fluent in English, I would say this is pretty trivial to do.
Yup, I use both meanings of literally pretty frequently, and I don't think that I've ever been misunderstood. And if there's the possibilty of a misunderstanding, you can always add something like "And this is the truth, I'm not speaking figuratively!" or something like that.
The meaning you're referring to is already post semantic shift. The original latin "Literalis" meant "of or pertaining to letters or writing". Not only is that true, but the vast, vast majority of the vocabulary of every natural language on the planet has undergone significant semantic shift over time (i.e. a change in meaning). This is simply how language works, and there is no stopping it or getting around it. "LIterally" has not "lost its meaninng", it changed to a new meaning and then gained an additional meaning as an intensifier.
Actually, definitely, really, completely, totally, literally, absolutely - all used as intensifiers. Maybe literally was the last one, no one complains about the others.
Sevrek · 1 points · Posted at 03:20:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
If it really bothers you so much you should learn the difference between denotation and connotation
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:51:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
To be fair it has been used in a figurative way for years. Mark Twain himself used it figuratively.
Sevrek · 6 points · Posted at 03:20:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Except that literally, literally means the same thing still.
ITT people don't understand the difference between denotation and connotation
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 20:15:27 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Disagree. Lost its meaning means the old meaning no longer applies. It certainly does, and the "new" meaning has been in use since the 1600s. It wasn't until the late 19th century that a woman pointed out how it doesn't make any sense. Old timey redditor.
Dank meant moist or damp years back, and now it's used because haha memes. Cuck was shorthand for cuckold but now is just used as another derisive term like pussy
I'll give you a hint: if you're able to debate whether or not something is a word with some stranger, probably quite far away, and you both know what the discussion is about, it's a word
I wondered about the word salty. Why salt? Why not pepper for example. Why can't you get peppery? I guess one possible explanation wpuld be equating the facial expression of someone who just ate something too salty to how a person feels but still. I find it a tad bit strange.
Funnily enough, Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder is actually much closer to what most people are talking about.
[deleted] · 260 points · Posted at 18:16:06 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Hipster." It used to be an actual group of people. Now it's just a generic insult you say to someone who does (or especially buys) something to look cool.
Also "cuck." Cuckold used to mean something very specific. Now it's just the equivalent of "spineless pussy."
hooch · 120 points · Posted at 18:52:58 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Hipster" isn't even about doing something to look cool anymore. I get called a hipster all the time. I don't do things to look cool, I just like records and I wear clothes that fit me. Sometimes I ride my bike because it's a good workout and I don't want to drive during rush hour. And for some reason I keep getting labeled that way.
It's not like I'm distilling my own whiskey while whittling a canoe out of reclaimed driftwood.
[deleted] · 67 points · Posted at 19:22:14 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
"Hipster" isn't even about doing something to look cool anymore.
But that's what I'm getting at. It never was about being "cool" in a conventional way.
I just like records and I wear clothes that fit me.
To be fair, love for vinyl is the classic "hipster" thing. And "clothes that fit" sounds like "skinny jeans." Not necessarily hipster in itself, but adding that stuff up starts to get genuinely hipster.
The hipster coolness is not mainstream cool. It's a retro, offbeat kind of cool. Sometimes minimal. Often mocking modern ways of doing things. If they haven't already, hipsters will "rediscover" simple ways of making coffee, for example, because of all the popularity of espresso and K-cup. I'm kind of guilty of that myself. I insist on using a french press and feel it is better than drip coffee makers.
Sometimes I ride my bike because it's a good workout
"To be fair, love for vinyl is the classic "hipster" thing."
Its been ruined by Hipsters who drove the price up, but it used to be for audiophile nutcases with expensive TT setups. Not cheap crap picked up off the side of the road.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
A lot of those audiophile nutcases are hipsters though. Being hipster is not completely superficial. Though I personally question the ear of those audiophiles. I've seen them fooled before in blind tests. Like one audiophile insisted that speaker cables were important but couldn't tell the difference between a thick gauge copper wire and a coat hanger.
Due to the people I have been forced to be around for a significant portion of my adult life I absolutely hate french presses. I am not even sorry, just like you apologized when admitting it; I do judge people who use french presses and I won't drink coffee made in them out of protest.
Quotes from a recent snobby couples camping trip I was forced to go to:
"We only drink coffee out of a french press"
"I can't believe you don't have a french press"
"We don't use creamer"
"Sometimes we use creamer to cut the acidity"
Thanks for using the last of my creamer jackasses. They made a point to be coffee aficionados but failed to prove superiority.
Well, I'm not lying when I say that cold-brew coffee is the best tasting coffee I've ever had. If that's considered hipster, then I'll gladly be labeled as one.
Ok but sometimes you just have to accept that stuff makes you a hipster. Hipster is a category of ppl that do that stuff. Like I get you have reasons for why you do those things. Everyone has reasons for why they act the way they do. But liking that is what makes you a Hipster.
The guy distilling his whiskey probably has an excuse like "I'm not a hipster I just do this because I think it's fun and cheaper". We're so afraid to be put under a label and we think our excuses valid us not being under that label. But in reality if u do those things ppl are gonna put u under whichever label ur earning urself. If ur afraid of the label or it makes u uncomfortable just brush it off. But I suggest accepting who u are and be proud.
If u see a guy who smokes weed often your gonna label him as a stoner. But in his mind he's not a stoner. He smokes because he needs it to calm anxiety and because he's doing that he's not just a stoner. But really he's a stoner because he smokes often and he's afraid to admit it. But u have to realize that it doesn't matter why u do things, if u do those things people will put u under the label of people who do those things. It's how the world works.
hooch · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:58 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well it's about owning a physical copy. CD's are digital and I already subscribe to Spotify Premium, which is high enough quality to be roughly the same as a CD. So I don't really see the point to buying CD's.
Plus vinyl has the added benefit of the large album art. Often there are also inserts or posters that you don't get with CD's.
Uh, not the person you were replying to, but, can you possibly explain how the idea of a bicycle with one gear, and someone who does something obscure to look "cool" have any type of correlation?
hooch · 1 points · Posted at 12:19:05 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Records are cool. Records are analog audio, digital audio can't compare yet. It just annoys the shit out of me when people buy vinyl and play it on shitty $20 record players.
hooch · 1 points · Posted at 12:23:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I listen to music mostly via Spotify. But when I find an album I really like, I buy it on vinyl so that I can actually own a physical copy.
My problem is why not buy a CD? I get it if your a huge fan and audiophile and you want to experience the music to the fullest, but if you play it to the open air with a shitty record player you lose all quality and you might as well be listening to it on digital like a CD and save a bunch of money.
hooch · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
CD's are digital. Spotify Premium can stream at a comparable bitrate to owning a CD. So why not buy an analog format? I have a nice Audio Technica turntable that sounds excellent. Plus you get that amazing album art.
Then that's perfect! That's why you get vinyl. It's just that vinyl's become trendy, and people buy them and don't have the equipment to take advantage of the quality.
kjata · 5 points · Posted at 06:30:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It is a fantastically concise way of saying "Please never take anything I have to say seriously, because I believe that women should be kept in line and that men who don't agree with that assertion have no value as human beings!" For that, I tolerate the word's existence.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:16:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I cringe when I see people say cuck.. And not because they're shortening the word. I'm fairly sure 90% of the kids using that word don't actually know what it means.
Simplistic language for a simplistic people. I once asked a Trump supporter if it meant what I thought it meant and what that had to do with anything. And then the ranting began
Yeah, we need to move on from hipster and replace it with something else. Society will just do this naturally, but the Hipster look has had a strangely long run.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:14:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
But that's just it. "Hipster" is not a "look" This is what annoys me.
Something similar happened to "punk" not too long ago. Punk is/was a real live subculture and scene. It's not just having colored hair and tattoos.
Oh sure, there really are Hipsters who use typewriters in cafes and nonsense like that, but for most people it's just a look. They may dress like that, but don't ride around Williamsburg on a penny farthing or whatever.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:49 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
but for most people it's just a look
And that's why "hipster" is a great answer to OP's question. Hipster used to mean something in terms of culture and behavior. I would argue that it's not even a look anymore. Especially on the internet you can be called a hipster for just about anything. And it's always use as an insult.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:57 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
but for most people it's just a look
And that's why "hipster" is a great answer to OP's question. Hipster used to mean something in terms of culture and behavior. I would argue that it's not even a look anymore. Especially on the internet you can be called a hipster for just about anything. And it's always use as an insult.
Someone at work referred to me as a hipster because I bring a barista-made coffee to work every day. If really enjoying coffee made from locally roasted beans in a cafe owned by friends makes me a hipster, then fuck it.
I didn't say she was. Everyone makes mistakes and irony is an easy concept to get wrong.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:46:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Are you kidding? It's not a single mistake, it would be multiple mistakes from multiple people over multiple weeks during the writing and recording of the song.
You'd have to be a real fucking dumbass to not once make sure the 15+ examples of irony in your song are correct. Alanis is not dumb, she did it on purpose. The point of the song is to be ironic, in that none of the examples she gives of irony are valid.
She has decent lyrics. I just sometimes wish that it wasn't her singing them.
She squeals at a high pitch, then goes low, then back up again, and back down. It's absolutely horrible to listen to and it sucks because some of her shit is interesting.
blivet · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I still like that album, though. I hadn't listened to it in years and heard a track from it while I was out someplace, and it really holds up.
Irony - a situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that seems to be the opposite of what you expected
10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife... would actually be ironic.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 01:34:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
First, that only describes one type of irony. Second, it wouldn't be ironic, because it states that you need a knife, not that you expect a knife or have any reason to.
It only has to be one type of irony, it's not like it also has to be verbal irony or dramatic irony. And of course you would expect a knife and not 10,000 spoons instead.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 02:08:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why would you expect a knife? We don't know what scenario this person is in. Sure, 10000 spoons seems unusual, but maybe they did expect them. It just wasn't what they needed. Maybe they needed to cut some veggies, and they already knew they were going to be receiving a shipment of spoons, but they still needed a knife. We don't know that they had any reason to expect a knife.
If you're looking for a knife somewhere, then clearly you expect a knife could be there.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 04:14:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Besides, the meaning of words often change because people use them wrong. So the meaning of ironic is somewhat changing. Only recently have people started taking notice of how wrongly people use it. Hell, that song came out almost twenty years ago and we are just now bitching about it.
No, people bitched about it when the song came out, and for pretty much all 20 years since. As /u/MoveMeBrightly88 points out, the fact that none of the examples given are actually ironic does make the song itself ironic.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 13:44:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was probably 9, so can't really be sure, but I don't remember people bitching about it, then again as I said, I was 9. Maybe I'm wrong then.
If i gave you steak and said "I'll be back with silverware" would you expect a spoon? How about 10,000 of them.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 02:24:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes, of course I'd expect a knife rather than spoons after being served a steak, but we don't have any background information so we have no reason to assume that was the scenario. See my reply to the guy below you.
That's a statement about knife shortage. Irony needs to be ... ironic. Irony is when a shark hunter gets killed by a shark or a when a person claiming that a gun will help protect his family shoots his child. Oxymorons can be irony: religious education, American culture, approximately equal, mortality of the immortal god, acting naturally. Examples of irony from real life: Hitler promoted the idea of the Aryan ubermensch but he wouldn't score high on the ubermenschy scale himself, the unsinkable Titanic sunk on his maiden voyage, people who complain that they are surrounded by assholes are the assholes themselves, people who don't believe in autism or mental illness bare a child with autism or mental illness, those who complain that others don't know what they are talking about are too stupid to know how much they don't know.
My high school English teacher always had the best explanation for this. Irony is being afraid of crashing on an airplane, and then becoming a pilot. Coincidence is being afraid of crashing on an airplane, and your airplane crashes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:15:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hear about people using it incorrectly so often that I've basically removed it from my vocabulary.
At this point, even if I read the definition right before attempting to use it, I'd still feel doubt as to whether I was using it correctly or not.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:47:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just because Futurama uses a word in an episode does not mean people are referencing futurama if they use the same word. Explain how exactly it is supposed to be a reference to futurama.
I think you're underestimating it. Also, here at least, the slang term "ratchet" was originally "ratshit", and somehow changed at some point. Probably because we just copy Americans
Someone who knows what a ratchet wrench is? You know those things that look like sticks with the spinny end that make clicking sounds when you turn them? Yeah those are socket ratchet wrenches (mostly just called ratchets).
A ratchet is just the mechanism. Its not exclusive to wrenches. So calling a ratchet wrench a ratchet is just as much of linguistic divergence as using ratchet to mean classless or trashy.
I'm aware. It's like calling a motorcycle a bike. A bike is an in-line two wheeled vehicle. The guy I answered seemed to think we were referring to manual crescent wrenches as ratchets.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:18:13 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
A ratchet wrench is a ratchet wrench. I don't understand how this answers the questions. Who calls a ratchet a wrench? That's like asking for a screwdriver and getting a hammer. You went to a lot of effort to demonstrate nothing....I don't get it.
Nobody calls socket ratchet wrenches 'wrenches'. Tons of people call socket ratchet wrenches 'ratchets'. Myself included. It's like working in a body shop and asking for a hammer, you probably want a body hammer and not a sledgehammer. I'm just objectively telling you what the jargon is, I didn't invent it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:37:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
We're not talking about ratchet wrenches.... I said, who calls a ratchet a wrench? Ratchet wrenches are obviously not what I was referring to when I asked the question.
and I was explaining that he was referring to ratchet wrenches, not crescent wrenches. That's all.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 11:44:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't think he was though. There's nothing in his comment that implies he was talking about a combination wrench/ratchet. I think someone around him actually refers to a crescent wrench as a ratchet. And that is absurd. If he was speaking of a ratcheting wrench then he did a horrible job of conveying the idea...which is why I asked the question in the first place.
I'd think it lost its meaning as a slang term almost immediately. I heard for the first time to describe someone as very ghetto and cheap. 4 days later I heard someone describe a cloudy day as ratchet. It lost meaning to me after that.
I think damp is a worse word than moist. At least with moist that can describe a delicious cake, but damp? Now you're just talking about my ill-ventilated basement.
Yeah, there is literally no other word to describe cake and whipped cream. Next people will be forced to use "dank".
qOJOb · 85 points · Posted at 21:43:20 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can't help but giggle at the thought of "Betty Crocker's Ultra-Dank White Cake Mix" sitting on a super market shelf
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 00:49:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Today, we'll be making a dank cake. First, you add the dry ingredients, as that is easiest first. Now, you add the liquid, Mountain Dew. This adds a caffeinated goodness to it. Of course, we can't forget the crushed Doritos, as they add a beautiful spice. Now we cook at 420 degrees for 35 minutes. After that, it needs decorations. That's where the beams come in. Add
the unmelted steel beams on top, then you frost. I have picked a design its dat boi and it just needs words now. Let's do it. Oh... Shit... Waddup. This is a sufficient Dank Cake. I hope you enjoyed it. This has been Gordon Ramsay's cake and WHAT THE FUCK THE STEEL BEAMS MELTED!
Why does moist gross so many people out? Is it a sexual thing? Cause I've never heard anyone say "oh god...I'm so MOIST right now!" "I'm so wet" is very common, yet no one is weirded out by the word wet.
Like if somebody said, "Can I take you out for a drink?" it would be OK, but if they said, "Can I take you out for a beverage?" you'd have to say no just for the use of that word.
If you go into a store and take a look at Betty Crocker boxed cake mixes, there does not exist a single box without the word moist printed right on the front. It's impossible to buy non-moist cake. I almost want to take it as a challenge to make a dry, shitty cake out of their cake mix without going too far out of my way to ruin it, just to prove a point that they can't always be perfectly moist.
Polish has two words, both of which would be translated to "friend" in English. "Przyjaciel" who is someone you trust and you are close with, and "Znajomy" who is basically someone you know. The second one is used in contexts of friend lists, and is very much appropriate for it. The first word conserves its value.
"A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation the affected person will go to great lengths to avoid, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed."
I had a psychology professor with Arachnophobia. She couldn't even think straight if she knew a spider was within 50 feet of her. She acted completely irrational when exposed to her phobia and was prepared to run out of the room if someone purposefully brought a spider into the lecture hall to mess with her.
I go on reddit and apparently like 5% of people have trypophobia, a fear of holes. Pfft, give me a break. Being slightly disturbed by a bunch of holes isn't a phobia unless it very obviously affects your life in a negative. This is one example of the word losing its meaning.
I've tried explaining this to my friend, who has no phobias, that my acrophobia means I really don't want to be anywhere close to an edge of a tall fall. Anxiety, shaky knees, light-headedness, sweaty palms. I don't like it, and I can't even have a focused conversation by any high ledges, the height is too distracting. He doesn't get it and thinks phobias are just a thing you can get over if you try hard enough. Maybe that's true to some degree, but it would take a lot for me to just be chill about being on the edge of a 10 story building.
my gf wanted me to ride acrophbia at six flags. I told her I would hate every second of it. "But you don't know if you don't try it at least once!" Fine... I did it just to prove to her that I hated it. At the end she asked me how I felt about it. I told her I had to fight an anxiety attack the whole time and held my breath and went to my happy place during the fall. I couldn't bear the idea of being that high up... so yeah, I fucking hated it.
jaesin · 5 points · Posted at 04:23:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I only have a mild discomfort at heights and even I won't do those fucking tower drop rides.
As someone that isn't afraid of anything I can't relate. Is it like an adrenaline rush? Are there people who develop fetishes revolving around being exposed to their phobias?
not to mention that it's being abused at all levels, even by academics as a hammer against peoples opinions. I don't think people should be able to walk across our borders, uninvited and un-vetted and work jobs under the table and without paying taxes - but that makes me a "xenophobe". same with Isalamophobe, homophobe, etc.
Uhm... you are aware that those are two different kinds oh phobiae, do you? The one, as in arachnophobia, is a medical condition and the other kind, as in xenophobia, is a political and social issue (although it's kinda getting a real disease, too, lately) ...
There is also the scientific form that means to repel. Like how oil repels water
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's what he's saying. The actual word is specifically for the medical condition. We've allowed the word to become perverted to take on the political and pejorative meaning. The thread is actually about words that this has happened to. The political meaning of phobia is not the real meaning of the word.
Phobia hasnt "lost" its meaning of irrational fear. Thats still its primary use in modern English.
The only people who trot out this stupid topic are either anti lgbt or just plain old racist.
Also inb4 Muslim is not a race. That's the inevitable come back to being called racist as if hating a billion people for their religion is somehow ok because it's not hating them for their skin color.
I agree they are two different things, but the second one is not one that I consider to be real in any way. it's no more than calling someone a racist because they didn't vote for Obama.
I had a gf that was actually arachnophobic and it took me over a year or two to see it. She actively looked for spiders and I thought she was just zoning out. That's real arachnophobia.
It's interesting because I did have Arachnophobia as a child and slowly grew out of it as I got older. Like by grew out of it I mean, I no longer run screaming I just fucking hate them. (And yes I mean literally hate them. If I could fathom touching them I'd have no problem with inflicting endless torture upon them.)
So now out of habit I'll say I have it, and then just kind of kill the ever living fuck out of the spider which spooked me.
True, it does get over-diagnosed. When I see images of those types of unnecessary holes, such as maggots embedded in flesh, or even simple Lotus blooms, there are several reactions. First, even thinking about them makes my skin crawl (Formication) to the extent that it causes pain. My blood pressure fluctuates rapidly, heart rate increases. It's a real, physiological reaction.
Before I knew what this was, I was at work cruising Facebook on my break and I saw a spammed image of a lotus plant photoshopped onto a breast. Somehow, I worked up the courage to search for the image here: NSFW. It was the most terrifying thing I had ever seen, and I absolutely mean that. I'm not scared of snakes, insects, spiders, they just don't bother me as I'm a generally reasonable and fearless person, but this absolutely horrified me. I felt so sick to my stomach (I feel queasy now, I shouldn't have looked that image up) that I had to go home. I was obsessed with the thought for three days, even after finding the snopes article dismissing it as fake. I knew it wasn't real, I knew it couldn't happen, but the very thought of it threw my body into a state I had never felt before.
My point is: real phobias are rarer than most people think, and they are significant. Not liking spiders is very different than your body shutting down when it sees or even thinks it sees a spider.
Depends where you are from but in the UK that word is all about tone and situation. It can range from genuinely apologetic to 'get the fuck out of my way you ignorant twat'. Depending on the person the variations can be incredibly small to the point they are overlooked.
diaboo · 17 points · Posted at 22:22:00 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I once heard heard a conversation between some guys where one person was complaining about how long it was taking for something to get done by saying that "the administration here is so autistic".
His friend promptly asked him if he had even the slightest clue as to what the definition of the word "autistic" is.
It's not so much that they don't know. It's that they don't care.
I use words outside their original meaning often when I'm with good friends and we all know what's happening. I very very rarely use autistic as an insult and we all know that none of us think this person/institution is literally (correct use of "literally", btw) autistic.
Most extreme words have lost their meaning, or at least their strength.
Here are some words that should be used rarely, but they get overused so they don't matter anymore:
Amazing. Really, does it amaze you?
Gorgeous. Really, is she gorgeous, or just pretty?
Horrible. Really, does it horrify, or is it a slight annoyance?
Unbelievable. Really, you find yourself unable to believe it?
Hate. This is a very strong word, and you probably only dislike what you're talking about.
Starving. I doubt you're starving.
Literally. We all know how often this is misused, and it takes away the meaning when something literally is literally.
Tragic. No, you just cracked your phone screen. It's not a tragedy.
Worst. How many things can be the worst thing ever?
Hitler. Comparing anyone/anything to Hitler should be reserved for people that have caused millions of deaths. Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton is literally Hitler.
Inconceivable. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
[deleted] · 73 points · Posted at 18:44:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 21:42:58 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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This comment has been overwritten by a script. I have left reddit because it no longer represents what it once did to me, and I feel that this site does more harm to my mental health than good. I do not wish to be a part of what reddit has become.
My grandpa was an Irishman who grew up in an incredibly poor situation, kind of got out of it by working his ass off as an adult, and brought his wife and daughters to America. When he was growing up, his father worked three jobs and all 10 of them shared the same room (it was a studio apartment), just for some examples of the poverty.
Anyways, "I'm starving" (in his weird Cork accent that I can't even type out) was his signature phrase when I was growing up. His stomach would always be rumbling, and he'd always say it on repeat until we got him something to eat.
What never occurred to me until recently was that there was almost certainly a time in his life where he was actually starving, and it would go unanswered. This was probably an unconscious way of making sure he got food by annoying the shit out of everyone around him in an endearing way.
I totally agree about the Hitler comment in particular. It's really actually quite insensitive to describe other people/situations as such when they did not, in fact, cause millions of deaths. There are so many other comparisons that could be made to get the point across.
Don't you know the concept called "abstraction"? You can even compare apples and oranges (I know there's a figure of speech telling you not to, but ...you know, it's just a figure of speech). Both are fruits, about the same size, about the same form, etc. They are way more similar than either compared to bananas, cherrys, cars, love, air, the universe or us.
This is not an issue of understanding literary tools. It's a matter of propriety. There are far more appropriate politicians to compare someone to than Hitler, probably one of the most evil humans in all of history.
Unless, of course, that person has committed genocide. It's almost never warranted, and people typically make a comparison as a very cheap, visceral arguing point against someone with whom they disagree. Hitler is essentially the face of evil in modern history, so it's just uncalled for.
Comparing someone who has not committed genocide and started the deadliest war of all time to Hitler is not comparing apples to oranges. It's more like comparing an avocado to a grenade. They're both green, roughly the same size, both have a harder outer shell...except one fucking explodes and kills everything around it...
It's more like comparing an avocado to a grenade. They're both green, roughly the same size, both have a harder outer shell...except one fucking explodes and kills everything around it...
And it's ridiculous to compare the two because there are such huge, glaring differences that as a whole, they are not similar despite a couple of superficial similarities.
My comparison was obviously done as an example to show how silly such a comparison is.
It's not if you abstract both and for example compare them for throwing purposes. If both have similar shape and weight and you can throw an avocado over your house, you probably can throw a grenade over your house too.
Or if you pin a ring to an avocado you could say "it looks like a grenade"...which is a comparison and not ridiculous although one fucking explodes and kills everything around it.
[Edit] To even push that example a little further you could also say "look, a grenade" and everyone but a total moron would understand that you don't think you have an actual grenade in your hand but that you see similarities on certain aspects between the object in your hand and an actual grenade (in this case the looks).
This argument is getting a little off track and pedantic.
Simply, we all know what kind of reaction we get when we talk about Hitler. Because of that, comparing someone who hasn't attempted genocide to Hitler is a little bit uncalled for.
You're aware of the ~60,000,000 dead in WWII, right?
Are you aware that talking about something so extreme, with one man as the face of all that evil, just might elicit some sort of emotional response? Do you think just maybe people might connect any comparison of a person to Hitler as a comparison of that person to evil incarnate? If comparing aspects of Hitler to a person has no direct connection to the Holocaust or the sum of all other abhorrent acts committed for his cause for you, then you are the outlier, and you need to realize that and should adjust your behavior and talking points accordingly.
I'm not the only one thinking this way as all the hitler comparisons OP and you are complaining about are showing. All those people who make those comparisons are able to abstract, you seem not to be able. That's not me being smart, but you lacking a basic human functionality.
You think that because I disagree with you, that means I lack a basic thought pattern. That's where you're wrong. I see both sides just fine, but I think my side is more correct.
I recognize that a very large portion of the population thinks that way, so it's unwise to make comparisons to Hitler when there are more unobjectionable examples one could use.
So you can think this way and when you accused me of being the outlier, you included yourself to be an outlier too?
If comparing aspects of Hitler to a person has no direct connection to the Holocaust or the sum of all other abhorrent acts committed for his cause for you, then you are the outlier, and you need to realize that and should adjust your behavior and talking points accordingly.
I might be an outlier in that line of thinking, BUT...
Don't forget about the last part of that message you quoted. Realize that and adjust your behavior accordingly.
It is the same concept as why I generally avoid using the word "niggardly". I know what the word means, I know its origin, I know it has nothing to do with the N word, but some people might hear the N word within "niggardly" and instantly put up a wall or get offended. To avoid that issue, I use other words at my disposal like "cheap" or "miserly" when a situation calls for it. Just the same, I typically avoid Hitler comparisons unless the sum of a person is comparable to Hitler.
Just the same, I typically avoid Hitler comparisons unless the sum of a person is comparable to Hitler.
I typically avoid Hitler comparisons unless Hitler is the most fitting comparison I know of/I think the other person knows of. Doesn't make comparisons by others wrong.
And regarding this topic: So you have a (in that context) bullshit meaning that people who can't abstract abide to and the smart people that can abstract should stick to that meaning because otherwise the stupid people don't understand them? Don't you think you give the stupid people too much might in this case letting them ruin the language, which is exactly what this thread is complaining about?
There's a term in basketball for point guards called a KYP. It stands for "know your personnel". A KYP play happens when the point guard makes a pass to somebody he shouldn't pass to. Passes to the guy who can't shoot when he's open, passes it too hard to a teammate who doesn't have good hands, trues an alley oop with a teammate who can't jump high enough, etc. Even though the other player might be the one unable to make the play, it's still considered the point guard's fault because he's responsible for knowing who he's dealing with.
The same goes for language. I don't (purposely) misuse words, but sometimes I try to speak as plainly as possible so whoever I'm talking to will be sure to get what I'm saying. "Niggardly" isn't exactly a common word, and "cheap" gets the same point across and in fewer syllables. Overall it makes more sense to just avoid "niggardly".
I agree to that, but while a competitive sports environment states winning conditions, in real life the winning conditions aren't set. So I can either set out to make myself as understandable by as many people as possibe or I could make myself understandable to a certain amount of people while at the same time teaching those who don't understand me a lesson.
Your life goal dumbs down humanity, mine doesn't.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:10:25 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Huge exaggerations, used excessively, yes. I have a problem with those.
When so many things are described to a heightened level, it brings down the strength of the descriptions of things that actually deserve the use of such words.
kmturg · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:30 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I use travesty instead of tragedy. Because honestly, unless you are talking about someone dying from exposure in the woods, it's probably not a tragedy. But everyone's over reaction to getting a cracked screen on their phones is a travesty.
Hyperbole definitely has its place. I think we agree on that. I just want people to chill a little bit and have a little discretion with their hyperbole.
Hyperbole is like a Little Debbie snack. It's delicious, but it probably shouldn't be your main course for most of your meals.
Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton is literally Hitler.
For now, they both have the potential to cause the deaths of many people. Bankrupting the country and taking it out on Mexicans could very well go into the "literally Hitler" territory.
I'm pretty sure the leader of most countries has the potential to cause lots and lots of deaths and bankrupt their country.
We also have lots of checks and balances in the US government, so unlike a dictatorship, even if we had a president with Hitler's personality and intentions, it's unlikely much of it would be happen.
Unwise policy decisions don't compare to purposeful murder. I doubt Trump would be SO bad that we default, have a collapse worse than the Great Deoression, and spiral into a third-world country.
All examples over a century old of hyperbole. I couldn't find a mention outside of tragedies in the theatrical sense in a quick search, nor could I find an example of starving used as hyperbole, but I didn't look very hard. Gorgeous, being entirely subjective, I omitted entirely.
However, many of the words you mentioned have actually decreased in use over the last few decades, though admittedly this data only goes to 2008 at the latest, so very recent uses won't show up. Either way, my point stands: using these words as hyperbole is nothing remotely new.
Not to mention, languages change over time. We don't speak the way Chaucer would have, or even Shakespeare. It would honestly be linguistically weird if we did, if the language hadn't changed in all that time.
I know language changes over time. We all know that.
However, when the strongest words we have are so often used to describe things that are fairly bland comparatively, it takes the kick out of those words.
You kind of did it yourself then... Like of course no one is literally Hitler but Hitler. I think the problem with that is about the use of literally not about Hitler. From what I can tell if Trump got the type of power Hitler had, he would have no problem with using it in a similar way to maintain power.
Hell he already has the Mexicans as his scapegoats for his campaign, they are just Jews 2.0.
When someone says someone else is "literally Hitler", it's an issue with both words. Even if they just make a comparison to Hitler without the use of "literally", it's still way off base.
Trump, asshole that he may be, is no Hitler. What he has talked about doing to illegal Mexican immigrants is simply to send them back to the country they actually belong to, and to take steps to prevent illegal immigration. So many people keep blowing his intentions out of proportion. Is there anything wrong with wanting to prevent illegal immigration? No. We have borders for a reason. That doesn't compare to attempted extermination. A citizen of Mexico, legally a Mexican, with no visa to work in, live in, or reside in the US, belongs in...Mexico. The same applies to any person of any country in the entire world.
Literally. We all know how often this is misused, and it takes away the meaning when something literally is literally.
Hitler. Comparing anyone/anything to Hitler should be reserved for people that have caused millions of deaths. Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton is literally Hitler.
I remember once when I was probably 9 or so, my mom asked me if I wanted to hang out with this kid that lived down the street and I said "no" because, "I loath him."
I still feel bad to this day because it was such an unfair way to describe my feelings toward him when, in reality, I was just upset over some playground tiff and he was actually my friend.
Haha that was like me with the word livid. I thought it meant mildly upset. Couldn't be more wrong. Told parents I was livid with my brother. They were very concerned as we both got along well as kids. It's fun to learn!
This is amazingly horrible. It is literally unbelievable. I is the worst, worse than Hitler. It is tragic that this list exists, I hate it. Inconceivable!
If someone has his 'stache, they're gonna get called Hitler. If someone wants to enact similar policies, they're gonna get called Hitler. There's lots of valid reasons to compare someone to Hitler, even if they haven't yet committed genocide. There's a lot more to the Nazis than just the Holocaust.
Any Hitler argument is invalid unless there's genocide involved. There are lots of rulers, presidents, dictators, etc, that have enacted or wanted to enact certain policies that are similar to some of what Hitler got going in Germany.
However, the name Hitler resonates in such a visceral way because of the Holocaust, because of starting the deadliest war of all time, because of the amount of terribly inhumane experiments performed on people.
Most people are pretty aware of his total body of reprehensible work, and any one policy is inseparable from the whole thing. Anyone who compares someone not responsible for a genocide to Hitler is knowingly arguing with the hopes of eliciting an unfair emotional response. That's a cheap way to argue anything.
There are not lots of valid reasons to compare someone to Hitler. There are very, very few valid reasons. You can compare Stalin and Mao to Hitler, but very few other people with any validity.
Seshia · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:22 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
If someone is saying we should put armbands on Jews and ship them to labor camps, I'm gonna compare them to hitler even if they haven't killed millions. Sorry.
Most people are pretty aware of his total body of reprehensible work
Most people are aware of the existence of a man named Adolf Hitler, and most of them agree he was pretty shitty, but in my experience, most people really don't know much more than that. An entirely significant number of people can't differentiate a manji from a swastika.
I think it's just silly you're trying to say people can't reference Hitler without it being solely an emotionally manipulative tactic, especially in a world where so many people are ignorant about the facts, or even fabricating history to fit their world view(Holocaust deniers).
I mean yes I agree that insinuating your opponent is literally Hitler is a weak and emotionally manipulative strategy, but there's a whole lot to talk about concerning the man, the nation, and the war. Telling me I can only reference other nations or leaders with similar agendas is dumb.
It's astonishing to me how many people don't know the tragedy of what world war 2 was, my dad at work asked a 20 year old something about world war 2 and the person said "what's that?" ... I have met many people who don't know what world war 2 was, and if they do they just think it was some war and that's all, its sad really.
There is a difference between newbie and noob though. Newbie is someone new to the game. Noob is an insult, eg "omg noob team no vision report pls". I've never seen a rager actually use newbie, probably because it takes too long to type.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No but if you have never heard anyone saying it in the past 2 years, I was just saying you probably haven't played cod in that time either. The community is toxic.
"I identify as female" "Okay cool, but you were born with a dick, and your chromosomes are one X and one Y. Hate to tell you but some surgery and your opinion don't really matter against that cold hard fact."
If you have a penis you're a male. If you have a vagina you're a female.
If you have a penis, unless you pay to have a sex change, you're not a female. If you're vagina, unless you pay to have a sex change, you're not a male.
Unless you don't have genitals, you are either male or female.
Genderqueer is not a thing and should not be a thing.
That is how tell your sex. Not clear why you are so up in arms about the label "gender" being used for roles and behaviors considered appropriate for each sex. I mean, that is really all this drama is about.
Well, no. Your sex = biological parts. Your gender = how you identify (ie- If my sex is female and I identify as male, my gender is male).
"And according to the World Health Organization, "Sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women."
Why do you care so much about what other people call themselves? It literally doesn't effect you at all... Reddit loves to call out people who are against gay marriage but transgendered people existing literally effects you just as much as gay marriage being legal.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:41:11 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
This is as much a response to /u/wojack77, fwiw. I think that the majority of people that take the position /u/EdgyAltAccount did do so for the sake of simplicity.
You might be a man in a man's body, a man in a woman's body, or someone who sometimes feels like a man, sometimes like a woman, but in a man's body. (Same if you replace "woman" for "man.")
Then there's the person that claims to be a table in a woman's body. Or a werewolf. Or a molecule of water trapped in a man's body. Yeah, real special snowflakes there. But who am I to say that they really aren't what they claim? Got to keep the tablecloth on the first one, keep chickens away from the second, and the third is afraid of table salt.
At some point, I think most people will say enough is enough.
(And yes, I know that some people really believe that they are trapped in an incorrectly-gendered body. They can't afford surgery. The psych visits prior to surgery or hormones are too difficult. Whatever the reason, even though they would love to transition, they can't. I'm not trying to judge at all here, just explaining why a lot of people think that gender should be assigned based upon genitalia.)
That's the same exact argument the religious right used though. "If we make men allowed to marry men, next is men to animals!" It's just a slippery slope argument, since, last time I checked there haven't been any dog to man marriages yet.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:14 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I think it is and it isn't.
I think there's a difference in that men marrying men is something visible and quantifiable. But if I claim that I'm a woman trapped in a man's body, or you claim that you're a wolverine trapped in a woman's body, who can dispute that? In either case, we would both want our identities respected, as ludicrous as they might seem to others.
(This isn't to say that there aren't medical tests that can detect these identities. I am not aware of them--it's really not my area at all--but MRIs, hormone levels, or something else might actually demonstrate detectable differences between men in men's bodies and women in men's bodies. But like I said, I don't know of them.)
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 19:21:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thanks for this! This is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about, and I'm glad Reddit delivered.
Now I just have mixed feelings: I would love to see this more widely disseminated so that the people that hate/are disgusted by/don't understand transsexuals can inch closer to realizing that they are just people like everyone else, but am afraid that at some point some politician will ask for brain scans to be allowed to enter certain restrooms...
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 19:05:55 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
At some point, I think most people will say enough is enough.
I don't get this either.
Notwithstanding the reductio ad absurdum aspect of turning a fairly straightforward gender issue into crazy hyperbole like "a molecule of water trapped in a man," who cares if someone actually does want to identify as a werewolf or a drop of water or whatever ridiculous hyperbole you want to throw out there?
I really don't understand why that would ever bother anyone. It has absolutely zero effect on you, and if it makes them happy, why the hell not?
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 19:16:13 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Frankly, it doesn't bother me a bit. But...
People are already up in arms about HB2 and the controversy in NC. I suspect that a lot of it is that more conservative people are sick of being told that they have to cater to every person's vision of what they are.
Further, I don't think that it is a "straightforward" issue at all. Whereas there's plenty of biological evidence supporting homosexuality being something a person just is, rather than what they choose to be, I'm not aware of any such evidence for transsexuality. (Although, to be fair, I admit that I could be very wrong on this.) Without any sort of evidence for it, or explanation of why certain individuals are transsexual, I think there's bound to be a backlash against people asking for exceptions to established societal norms.
And yeah, I grant that a planet trapped in a man's body might be reductio ad absurdum. But to a lot of people, there's absolutely no difference between that and someone who has all the male bits but claims to actually be a female trapped in that body. Without the science to explain it (and again, I know I'm not as informed as some on this topic), a large swath of the population will see the two as the same kind of claims.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:31 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know. I suppose I can see where you're coming from, but I personally just don't understand how anyone would care outside of just a childish "eww that's weird" reaction to someone different from them. In my book "eww that's weird" isn't grounds for being intolerant of someone's actions that don't affect anyone at all in any way whatsoever.
There has never been a case of a transexual using their gender to sneak into a bathroom and doing something inappropriate. If there was I'm sure conservatives would be all over it. From what I gather that's what the proponents of the bill claim to be up in arms about, so I find the HB2 thing to be completely stupid.
As far as the science aspect of it, again, who cares. Getting tangible neurological evidence of any mental condition isn't an exact science. There's still people who say there's no evidence for depression or BPD, but we still acknowledge them. Also, there is some evidence to support gender dysmorphia. You can check out a Scientific American article on it here. They're a pretty unbiased source.
Not when someone demands you recognize their subjective take on gender/sex which is different from your own.
If I don't recognize a transgender as the sex they would want me to indentify then as that's too bad, there shouldn't be a obligation to force opinions down people's throats...
...whether or not I believe I have a moral obligation to treat/call this person as the gender they identify to is a whole other question, but I didn't come here to debate morals, just facts...
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 18:20:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Genderqueer is not a thing and should not be a thing.
Why do you care though? If someone wants to identify as another gender because it makes them feel better about themselves, why not be fine with it. Who gives a shit? It's not like it has any effect on your life in any way what so ever.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:39 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why do you care about his opinion? If someone wants to believe something because they choose to, why not be fine with it. Who gives a shit? It's not like it has any effect on your life in any way what so ever.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:46:10 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was asking why he cared out of curiosity, because I really just don't understand that mentality. If it's not affecting anyone in a negative way why not just live and let live?
Also, while it doesn't have an effect on me personally, opinions like his are behind actual laws that do have a tangible adverse effect on other people's lives. It crosses the line into more than "just an opinion" if it starts affecting legislation.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 23:20:13 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was asking why you cared out of curiosity, because I really just don't understand that mentality. If it's not affecting anyone in a negative way why not just live and let live?
Also, while it doesn't have an affect on me personally, opinions like yours don't matter, nor do mine. Like you said, live and let live.
And what law says you can't personally believe you're a wolf or dog or whatever. No one's stopping you and I'm pretty sure police aren't knocking on your door when you howl too lowdly like a weirdo.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:41:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
If it's not affecting anyone in a negative way why not just live and let live?
Cute, but it is affecting other people in a negative way in the form of those laws we're talking about. A trans person identifying themselves as trans has zero tangible impact on anyone else.
We were talking about the actual nc law that has a direct impact on people's lives, not ones in the fantasy hyperbole land of strawmen where people think they're otters and want special otter rights.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 03:47:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Right... Because a few people on tumblr is exactly like govenment enacted legislation.
I also missed the part where there was anyone identifying as anything here.. Just some pictures of otters. I'll admit that was funny though.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:05:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
We're talking about the people who believe they're animals, you're not. You're arguing with me about something that I am not even talking about. Your rage is blinding you of what I'm even saying.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, we're not talking about that idiotic animal strawman you keep mentioning.
Genderqueer is not a thing and should not be a thing.
This is the comment I was initially responding to and that's all I've been talking about. Your fixation on this stupid animal hyperbole is blinding you to the entire conversation.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 00:59:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
So what you are saying is stuff like racism and sexism is ok because it is only an opinion? It doesn't effect your life in anyway so whatever.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:10:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wow, nice way to assume that guy is a white male.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 10:41:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry that you have to hide behind a throwaway to say anything.
I wasn't assuming anything, you can be any race and any gender and still be sexist and racist.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:06:39 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
As if you would recognize him irl if he didn't use and alt account
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:44:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Which is exactly why he should not have bothered using one.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:09:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you haven't noticed, I repeated what the person before me basically said. And in a way, racism and sexism is ok because it is only an opinion. If they personally believe that, that sucks but as long as they don't take action on it, no one would possibly even know what they're thinking.
Because they want ME and other people to call them whatever, no matter how stupid it is.
See "Xe Xem Xyr" and "Otherkin"
EVERYTHING FOLLOWING THIS IS DIRECTED AT "SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES" IN GENERAL
You're not a fucking wolf. I'm not going to call you one.
If I can easily tell what you have in your pants by your defining features I will call you by that pronoun, whether you agree with it or not. Then you go and get triggered when I don't use the "right" one.
You're not special, stop trying to find ways to be unique. You come off as cringy and annoying.
You're a vocal minority. You all have rights based on the 2 binary genders. Use those and stop complaining.
/rant
Edit: I wonder how many people have me RES tagged as a transphobe now.
I've got karma to lose, so let the triggering begin.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 19:41:33 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because they want ME and other people to call them whatever, no matter how stupid it is.
Funny. I live in nyc, which is a bastion for your so called "special snowflakes," yet I have never been forced to call anyone anything, nor have I ever been shamed for calling someone the wrong pronoun.
The whole idea of some otherkin going around yelling at people for not acknowledging them as an otter or beetle or whatever is such a ridiculous strawman yet it's used all the time.
I live in nyc, which is a bastion for your so called "special snowflakes," yet I have never been forced to call anyone anything, nor have I ever been shamed for calling someone the wrong pronoun.
Ah, the good old "I've never encountered this before, therefore it doesn't exist".
Yup, which is mostly due to Reddit's obsession with tumblr and calling this world out specifically despite it being legitimately a useful word in some cases. Tumblr went a little overboard, but trigger warnings aren't inherently a bad thing.
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 23:00:14 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
It gets used ironically on Reddit a lot more than by overly sensitive people on Tumblr.
A trigger is a very real thing and is often linked with trauma. Its not something you can control and can be socially debilitating. Where it got misused is when people started using it as a term for anything that gets them upset
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 09:56:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or when people fake PSTD for attention and crave trigger warnings on anything vaguely negative. It just detracts from the people that actually need to be warned of traumatic content.
Trigger warnings are literal warnings to people who have been raped or abused and have PTSD because of it, because hearing an account of something similar to what they've been through can trigger PTSD, the same way a combat veteran can have a flashback to trauma suffered in combat. Reddit is literally making fun of rape and abuse victims when they make this "joke."
Of course someone always says that "tumblrinas" have abused the word by using it wrong... which of course is bullshit. I've never even seen the mythical purple-haired Tumblr feminazi say "TRIGGERED," and neither have any of you. It's just part of the strawman version of feminism reddit loves to rail against.
I, unfortunately, have seen people inappropriately using the word first-hand in such contexts, right down to the i sud enly cannno t type corect ly "panic attack" that follows them getting called out on it. Trolling or not, it's a genuine problem on tumblr. One of the communities I'm in has a huge problem with an entire group of people getting "triggered" (yes, they use that word) over people posting images of holes every six months.
They're either hard core trolls or actually think they're using it correctly; they've witch hunted people off the site for not respecting it. They're pretty much the worst element of tumblr, but they absolutely do not use it in the same "joking way" redditors do. It sounds really silly but when you see the tumblr machine in action, particularly when younger people are involved, it's a terrifying thing. Some of them really do believe what they're saying.
I think majority of humanity hasent even known that trigger warnings are a thing before tumblr feminazis sprayed it all across the internet for the slightest thing. People were always screenshotting their comments and Ive seen tons of them and many people did. How else would this have formed ? Out of thin air ?
Reddit is not the "majority of humanity," it's a bunch of entitled young white dudes with a chip on their shoulder. And out of thin air? Yeah, basically. Have you SEEN /r/tumblrinaction? It's a bunch of bullshit and obvious trolling. It couldn't be more obvious that most of it is fakes by teen chanlords who think they're rebellious freethinkers for sticking it to those awful PC SJW feminazis on tumblr.
r/rtumblerinaction is bullshit and obvious trolling ? So you Really think all those people there make that stuff up ? All those people just perfectly photoshop this and put it online ? Because that would be very sad if you were so delusional.
I know you know (or I assumed you know), I was just elaborating for the sake of the group.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 03:43:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Honestly... nobody gives a fuck about what triggers you. Bad shit happened to you and fucked you up. That sucks and we all feel a little bad for you. But if you think people are actually going to change what they do or walk on eggshells for you it isn't going to happen.
So yea I think if people stop expecting to be catered to we could probably stop mocking it. What's next we have to sit when anyone in a wheel chair rolls by? Less they get triggered? Flash backs to Nam, Charlie's in the trees clapping over holes invading my safe space and threatening my opinions!
AOL's fault it was all to shave that one letter off of "haha" well really alls we ever meant was I find this mildly amusing but now we've made it long again : Reddit :D
"Racist!" - used often by thin-skinned individuals who can't come up with a reasonable counter arguement and resorts to shaming the other party into moving the discussion and to force them in explaining why they aren't racists.
Defined: "a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another."
So simply saying a rapper is trashy doesn't make me racist. Trump not wanting Muslims to immigrate to the US...not racist. The police doing their job and they happen to arrest someone who is black...again not racist.
"If I just insist that everyone is oversensitive, I can get away with never having to consider whether I might actually be part of the problem! It's so easy!"
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 09:54:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"If I just ignore the point that the other side is making and instead try to scare them into submission by taking the moral high ground, I won't actually have to do anything to fix problems apart from argue on the internet!"
It's not that I don't see myself as removed from the problem, but I just don't care. It's hard for me to change my behavior in every way to cow tow to every minorities' insecurities. I just try to be a decent person and get on with my life.
So you try to convince yourself that you're being a decent person, in the same breath that you say that you find it too difficult to listen to what people need you to do in order to claim to be a good person?
jlisle · 1 points · Posted at 02:33:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dank is one of those words that has started to mean the opposite of itself, and is thus a very fitting answer. Compare the dictionary definition with the Urban Dictionary definition: disagreeably damp, musty and typically cold vs something of high quality. If somebody were to be described as a "dank cunt," for example, I'm not sure I could parse out the actual meaning.
Rape. The hugely misleading inaccurate surveys that claim 1 in 4 college women have been raped have done this word no favors. Some of these studies even go so far as to label "attempted forced kissing" as rape. Rape is a horrific crime and labelling almost any bad encounter with a male rape completely downplays the horrors that actual victims of rape experienced.
That number for that particular college study is 1 in 4 women have been "sexually assaulted." Rape is a type of sexual assault, and yes, attempted forced kissing is also a type of sexual assault. People just don't know what words mean and think rape and sexual assault are synonymous and misquoted the stats all over the internet. (-_-)
timpai · 1 points · Posted at 01:35:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree, but these two examples are quite different. "Unique" used to mean that there was one and only one instance of something. That meaning is being lost, and instead we are using "unique" to mean special or unusual. So we're losing the original meaningof "unique" as it goes to join the ranks of all the other words that mean unusual or special, and we have no word left that actually means "unique".
Blgosu · 7 points · Posted at 18:40:12 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I couldn't find it here but, retarded. People who have mental diablilites were considered mentally retarded until a lot of people used it as a derogatory term.
Well When I think about love I think about the way a parents loves a child. Unconditionally, like I am willing to die so you can live a fuller life type of a thing. Or the way people love or are passionate a certain cause. Like I will die fighting for the cause type of thing. However people use love instead of like. I love icecream, I love Tv, I love Tina Fey. Are you willing to give up your life to fight for the cause of icecream, TV , or Tina Fey? Prob not.
I'd say it's disingenuous to blame it on a single US politician. In the UK, I've heard the term used for at least a few years (beforehand, I wasn't interested in politics, so wouldn't know).
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:27:35 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Plus in the UK the leader of the opposition is an actual socialist.
Feminism. Used to be a powerful word used by 50% of the population fighting for equality. Now a minority of people confuse 'feminism' (like, the 'men should live underground and come up to pump gas and kill spiders' ["Boy Meets World" reference]) with actual feminism (the wage gap / reproductive health / serious international issues that need addressing). I had a long argument with a friend who 'hates feminism' where I tried to put my viewpoint across and finally had to admit that he had a point when he cited the "South Park" episode 'The F Word' about how words semantically shift over time.
Feminism (actual feminism, not the crap that is perpetrated by a minority and then magnified by the media) is a legitimate and important social movement, but its importance has been screwed up.
I don't hate feminists. I actually agree with feminism. It female supremacists that I hate. Especially the ones who call themselves feminists.
paru98 · 4 points · Posted at 01:44:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seen this situation too many times...women bash men thinking they're "feminists" when it only reverses the gender inequality cycle instead of stopping it
Nazi - is the person you comparing to a Nazi, are they in fact a proponent of National Socialism? Have they had actual rallies complete with burning swastikas in their yard?
No you don't agree with them, and go for the long haul can compare them to a group of people universally hated. Stop.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:22:01 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
The phrases "How's it going?" "How are you feeling?" or "How's life?" are pretty much meaningless now. "Good, good, good." Everyone expects the same answers, and I find myself answering them like a reflex, even if it's not the right answer.
The Old English word meant "Immediately; right now" but it softened in Middle English to what it means now.
Same thing with "Anon", which etymonline calls "A one-word etymological lesson in the enduring power of procrastination."
Nobody ever gets blocked, they only get cockblocked. Nobody ever has legitimate complaints about people they game against (or in fact shows any emotion at all), they only get salty. Nobody ever relaxes, they only netflix and chill.
People love to get attached to the hot nu slang, and forget that those terms are not universally applicable. They overuse them to the point of worthlessness.
Late to the party and it's gonna get buried, but "twisted", "demented", any of those words that 14 year old edgelords bust repetitive nuts over. Twisted used to be a legitimate word for something that was skewed and deviated from it's original form, not a codeword for slapping striped socks on something and giving it a smarmy little smirkthing.
Likewise, I'm pretty sure demented and deranged used to be medical terms, albeit way way back, for someone who was wrong in the head.
Pedophile. Someone who hits on a 16 year old is apparently a pedophile. Someone who pervs on even a 17 year old is a pedophile, or so claimed by idiots. No one seems to understand anymore that pedophilia is the attraction to prepubescent children. If you have tits or facial hair, they're not interested. If someone likes 15 year olds they're an ephebephile (a much less commonly known/used term). Someone who hits on a 16 year old is not a pedophile, and 16 is the age of consent in many countries. If you haven't gone through puberty by 16, there's something wrong with your body, anyway.
It's not necessarily automatically "okay" for a 16 year old to be perved on by a 40 year old man or woman, but to claim it's pedophilia is an insult to victims of molestation by pedophiles. Don't flatter yourself, no pedophile wants your C-cupped/sideburned ass.
Any of the buzzwords used by leftists such as racist and xenophobic.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 00:58:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Anything phobic really. It's a medical and scientific term that's been completely perverted and taken over to mean something pejorative to shut down rational debate.
For me, its racist / racism, blackface, homophobic, transphobic, literally, and triggered.
Some of my irl friends on facebook use these terms CONSTANTLY for things that are simply too minor and unironically. It really sucks because all of them are serious issues (Well... minus literally)
Ok, first, a disclaimer. I love language and communication, and yes, I realize that linguistics are fluid and not stable. A commonly accepted new definition or new use of a word can be validated and made permanent in a way that's different from slang.
That is not the case here. In the case of decimate, that's just people being stupid. Much like "nimrod" ...
Decimate is a word which has concrete and interpretive roots, and when paired with the original context of use, means something completely different. The root "Deci" is even in there, giving us clues as to the original meaning.
"To remove one tenth of something." ... this is because underperforming legions were punished by being decimated where one out of every ten soldiers were killed.
With that context, it means;
"A punitive measure where one in ten underperforming soldiers are killed as an example."
Nowhere in there is "obliterate" or "destroy completely" ...
Modern people misinterpreted the world to such a great degree, that we just updated the dictionary.
This word as well as the word nimrod are two excellent examples of the fluidity of language that you mentioned.
How can you say that they're not?
When was the last time you heard either of those words used to talk about destroying 10% of something or while referring to a biblical hunter? When was the last time you heard them not used in that way? People all over the English-speaking world regularly use those words to express destruction and idiocy respectively, therefore (as long as other people recognize their meaning) they are valid definitions for the words
You gotta get all merovingian on this and ask why. When language shifts because people misinterpret or misunderstand, that's letting the stupids win.
ilrhea · 9 points · Posted at 12:49:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
This is a surprising statement from someone who wrote just above:
I love language and communication, and yes, I realize that linguistics are fluid and not stable.
"Decimate" is an image, it means to destroy a significant fraction of a group, I don't understand why so many people pretend that if that fraction is not exactly 1/10 and that group is anything other than Roman soldiers then you're not supposed to use that word. Actually I think I know why, it's because it has the obvious deci- prefix, so those who pretend to care can feel smart about knowing roots.
As I replied here, everybody, you included, use loads of words that have widened or shifted meaning through history, some of them much more dramatically and recently than decimate (which has been used in its slightly widened sense for 400 years). Why did you pick the decimate battle specifically?
Language shifts because people pick up new ways of expressing things and lose the habit of using others. It is a collective thing, you are doing it too, it has nothing to do with anyone being stupid. Did you know all the origins of the words I gave in the other post? There's plenty more that I don't know about, we all "misuse" them, it doesn't make us stupid. Pretending to care about some specific ones just so you can claim some people are stupid does make you an asshole tough.
The first attested use of decimate to mean nearly complete destruction is from 1663. If this is the "stupids" winning, then I say it's a decisive victory.
ilrhea · 3 points · Posted at 13:59:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Which is, sixteen entire centuries after the last documented episode of decimation in a Roman army (20 AD). This is so long ago that even the language that is referred to as "Proto-English" (not Middle English like Chaucer, not Old English like Beowulf, but Proto-English) didn't even exist. It's an image built as a reference to a violent custom from ancient times, it's not like we encounter everyday situations where we need to make it clear we are using it in the ancient Rome sense.
It's almost like it became a new word in English rather than an old word in Latin.
ilrhea · 5 points · Posted at 14:55:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I am really curious why people rant about this "misuse" of the term and how it is dumbing down language. I imagine a conversation going like this:
"The peach crop in much of the Northeast was decimated by sub-zero temperatures."
"Northeast... you are talking about the Roman expansion beyond the Po valley right? But which legion again? I have never heard of this "Subsero" general, is he more famous under another name?"
"No dude. May is too cold this year, it is killing the fruit crop."
"Ooooh I get it! See, since I am more knowledgeable than you about the meaning of words, it is more difficult for me to pick clues from context and understand what you mean."
yes, I realize that linguistics are fluid and not stable.
No. Apparently you don't. Also, if you want to insult people for incorrectly using words, how about the fact that 'linguistics' is the study of language and what you meant to say is that languages are fluid and not stable.
ilrhea · 12 points · Posted at 10:27:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Nowhere in there is "obliterate" or "destroy completely" ...
Modern people misinterpreted the world to such a great degree, that we just updated the dictionary.
People use it the mean "destroy a significant fraction in a systematic way", which isn't that far off from the meaning it had in Latin two thousand years ago. And even if it has shifted, it has not lost meaning.
Let's play a game:
That is not the case here.
"case" comes from Latin "to fall", which then shifted to a more general "to happen". You are so misusing that word it lost meaning.
Decimate is a word which has concrete and interpretive roots
"concrete" comes from Latin to mean "developed together", it doesn't even originally refer to things being material. You are so totally misusing this word.
You want other examples of words you use many times a day? A lot used to mean specifically a small object that you use when you need to pick things at random, or some kind of token. Later it meant a plot of land, attributed by drawing lots. The current meaning of "a large quantity" is more recent than the shifting of "decimate" by many centuries.
Another nice one (by the way nice until recently meant "foolish", "fussy" or "weak", not "pleasant", it comes from a Latin word which means "ignorant") is "silly": it used to mean "blessed" or "prosperous".
Do you ever feel down? Because "down" originally means "hill", same root as "dune".
Do you have rivals? By that, I am asking if there is a river flowing in your garden that your neighbours use for the same purpose as you.
You claim that you understand that words shift meaning, but when it is about that precise one that you care about then it's just people being stupid? And before you claim "but that one has deci- in it and I want to be able to tell people how smart I am because I know Latin roots!" do you care that much about December not being the 10th month anymore?
paolog · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:10 on June 2, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then there's centipede, millipede, hecatomb, megabucks...
I realize that linguistics are fluid and not stable...
...That is not the case here.
I'm not sure you do understand. Yes, people used a word outside it's established meaning and etymology. But how is that any different than what you said in your own disclaimer:
A commonly accepted new definition or new use of a word can be validated and made permanent in a way that's different from slang.
Modern people misinterpreted the world to such a great degree, that we just updated the dictionary.
Seems perfectly normal to me.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:01:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually thought it was to leave one in ten standing, but I was wrong. Decimation hardly seems as bad now.
Although it can be fun to point that many allied bombings would decimate areas. They were damaged but mostly intact. It's just after several 'decimations' over a year or 2 there was heavy and extensive damage.
I don't know about that. Being obliterated by another army is tragic and whatnot, but decimation tends to happen by the legion itself. Out of 10 guys, one of them would draw the short straw and the other 9 guys had to kill him. That's just fucked up.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:23:40 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even now I guess I was overlooking the "as punishment part." Though I do now recall seeing it used in this context on an episode of Spartacus. Amazing show.
I agree with your idea but reading your comment has made me think about it a bit more. Imagine that you're part of a group and some force says that they will randomly kill every tenth man in that group. Let's say they do that on the scale of a country (just an example if a group that we are all a part of ) Say they send an envelope to every household with a random number for each man, and each contains a random number of one through ten, and whoever gets that ten is then murdered. That is some thoroughly diabolical shit. The survivors would be reeling for the rest of their lives. It isn't really that far from how we use it.
"Traditionally, peruse has meant to read or examine something carefully. But informally, it can have the opposite meaning, to read something casually and quickly."
Thank you so much for this. I hate people who used this word incorrectly.
ilrhea · 13 points · Posted at 10:06:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I am starting a club for pedants who pretend to be annoyed by "December" being the 12th month because they want to feel superior by caring too much about a word that has shifted meaning centuries before they were born, would you be interested in joining?
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 00:39:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 10:02:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No. Annihilate has a meaning of destroying something completely. People use "decimate" to mean "destroying a significant fraction in a systematic fashion", which really isn't far from the root meaning in Latin. It's just that the fraction doesn't have to be 10.
I know. It's just that "making into nothing" (annihilate comes from the Latin ad + nihil, literally "to nothing) is what some people intend when they say they decimate someone.
ilrhea · 2 points · Posted at 11:05:50 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know, when people talk about crops being decimated they don't mean they have completely disappeared, they just mean there has been severe losses.
Thank you so much for this. I wish I could upvote your comment twice. Misuse of the word decimate by sports announcers annoys me to no end.
ilrhea · 6 points · Posted at 20:00:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Other words that bother you when they are not used in their pre-Medieval sense? Or just this one because you happen to know its origin?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:16 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
What about "rival teams"? Do you accept it when announcers say two teams are rivals even if their stadiums are not built on the banks of the same river, or does it annoy you to no end?
Racism and equality. Sucks to be a white, 'privileged' male nowadays. Everything you say or do WILL be used against you by some minority, feminazi's, et cetera.
How exactly is my comment racist or sexist in any way? The only sexists/racists are morons like you that desperately try to find a sexist/racist motive behind everything.
Spare me the white privilege crap. I grew up in a shitty neighborhood, in a poor family and my chances of ever coming out this environment were slimmer than most of the 'minorities' here that get a head start thanks to 'positive discrimination'.
Stop pulling the race card. The only reason minorities stay minorities is because they refuse to assimilate and adapt. I give everyone an equal chance, but if you pull the race card or blame your race for your own shitty behavior and attitude, you're on your own for all I care. The funny thing is that this behavior is only endemic for some ethnicities. There are tons of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Indian people here as well, and I never hear them complain about being discriminated against or not getting any chances. No, they all work their asses off and build a prosperous future for themselves and their children, without blaming every bump on the road on racism.
Being homeless has nothing to do with race. I'm saying that historically, white Europeans have had it relatively easy compared to other races. Which is unfortunate but true
you said "white people have it really fucking easy" since there are millions of poor and homeless white people, I'm trying to clarify if you think they all have it easy.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:23 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cute used to mean something different.
People now use disinterested like uninterested.
I have a theory, if you can call it that, that antisocial and unsocial used to be total seperate.
clever or cunning, especially in a self-seeking or superficial way.
Google says it still means that, but it's exclusive to North America, apparently.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:25 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
'Shortened from acute, originally “keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd” (1731). Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US students (slang) c.1834. Meaning drifted further to associate specifically with the pleasing attraction to features usually possessed by the young'
So I think that the original meaning everywhere was sly or whatever, but then the current meaning started in America... But clearly it spread throughout.
I can't remember where I read this but someone said a viable alternative to lol would be SALTS (Smiled a little, then stopped).
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:03 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pretty much any curse/swear word. They're used so much now, most people just laugh em' off rather than get pissed off and offended. It's not even worth using them anymore.
"Visibility" - in a business context this is losing its meaning.
A common phrase is "I don't have visibility of that" which makes no sense, as visibility is a property of the thing you are looking at, and is not something you can have, as the observer.
I hate this sort of mangling of the English language, all to try and sound marginally more smart, while at the same time being fucking ignorant.
"Supposed." Think about it. If something is supposed to happen, that means that the general consensus is that it is assumed to happen. Therefore, if you think your new puppy has peed on the floor while you were out, it was supposed to pee on the floor, although such might be frowned upon.
Cunt! That used to be such an unacceptable word. Like fuck, shit, bastard, prick where ok, once you used CUNT! People would gasp and look at you in disgust. Now it's "stop being a cunt and come to the shop with me buddy!"
jkman · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:44 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"How are you" is not something you say when you're genuinely concerned for someones well being. It's just used as a greeting now.
all profanity, awesome, epic, ASAP (the one I mourn the most), literally, cannot (fine. Take can't, but we need SOMETHING for the actual meaning), most innuendoes, sub (as an abbreviation for anything, it's so overused. I suggest shortening "subreddit" to "subrdt"), privilege, Nazi, subscribe
Hate. It's used so often for pretty much anything. It's not a joke when people say hate is a strong word, but we throw it out like college money anyway. What a shame.
Virtual. In computing, it meant that a system or data space extended beyond the physical (real) hardware limits. Once it was bastardized by politicians, it took on the same meaning as "almost".
Fantastic; it's one of the most misused words I've ever seen. It means strange not great. A fantastic day at the amusement park involves getting abducted by aliens or something.
This isn't really anything specific, but it seems like you can't compliment anyone today (on appearances) without it being interpreted in a flirtatious way.
Genius. Back in Ancient Greece, genius was referred to as a type of demon that possessed people. Everyone had their own demon, but some demons were more special than others. Then in Christendom, genius changed to where God gave divine inspiration to a person's inner demon or "genius". Some "genius" was bad and inspired by Satan so the label demon stuck to these types.
Then came the Enlightenment which sort of reflects our traditional definition of genius that no longer comes from the divine, but something special with the individual. Then came the Romantics which gave more heroic attributes to genius. Finally came the modern period which gradually democratized genius to the point where the word simply doesn't have the impact it once did. Now, Steven Jobs was a genius, Kanye is a genius, etc.
I'm probably off at many points but I got this from the book "Divine Fury: A History of Genius". I think I got at least the gist of it.
Xiagax · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:27 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Stalking
I hear this alot of Facebook with people who openly accept friend requests. These people hear something they don't want to hear from the person they friended, they call it stalking when that person won't stop commenting, liking, reacting etc. on whatever but yet refuses to unfriend them because they don't want to lose any relevancy if they have less than a certain arbitrary number of friends on social media
That guy cut me off in traffic and flipped me the middle finger.
How IGNORANT!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:18:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
At a wake when people say, "If there's anything I can do." I'd like to see an app to reinstate the true meaning of those words! Essentially, the app would have voice recognition for when somebody says, "If there's anything I can do." The phone would then immediately shows a list of things to do. Mowing the lawn of the deceased. Sorting belongings. Holding an estate sale. Etc.
"OK, I have you down for cleaning out the attic on Saturday."
"Next!"
swooby · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like... It's like people don't, like, understand what like really is like... Ya know?
I had a camp counselor once who told me that the word "troll" had no meaning anymore, as it meant so many different and unrelated things in today's society.
Thinking about it now, a lot of common swear words today have that same problem. I mean, look at "fuck"; it means so many different things in so many different situations that it's hardly feels like a word anymore.
Retard.
Not trying to offend, but I cannot stand the "r" word campaign. Likening it to the "n" word is well...retarded. Which actually means to slow progression. So by saying someone is a retard, while now meant to hurt feelings and mock, is accurate in its literal sense that the person's mental or physical capacity has a slowed progression.
wheks · 1 points · Posted at 02:18:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I saw something interesting on reddit the other day about how the word "apron" was originally "napron" but was changed because "an apron" is easier to say than "a napron". Its even listed in the Wikipedia page
Abomm · 1 points · Posted at 02:20:07 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hobo: It's been changed to mean homeless person when it used to be someone who works with no permanent home (migrant worker) or somebody like a WWII soldier who is trying to get home after the war but currently has no home (homeward-bound)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
gay-carefree,happy,bright
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:00:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Police. Only to me though, because "Police police police police police police police police police police police police police," is grammatically correct
"Racist" What was once a repugnant and horrible thing to be called now simply means that you hold a view that the accuser disagrees with. It has become to a weak debate tactic used to shut own a dialogue that the accuser can not win.
Savage, if you fucming throw a basketball in a hoop everyone yells "O FUCKIN SAVAGE" last time I checked, shooting your boss, taking a cheese grater, grateing some of his skin off, and replacing a little of your ciggerettes tabbaco with the skin you shaved off and litterly smoking him would be savage, the nazis making Jew skin lamp shades was savage, slavery was savage, your basket was not savage
In the vast majority of the continental US only -- bilingual. It's supposed to mean you know two languages, here it means you know Spanish (or really the Mexican version of Spanish), in addition to American English (the language, not the band). (Try applying for a bilingual job with any other second language!)
Also, gang banger. I have absolutely no idea how that went from a gang-rapist to a gang member...
Ice--9 · 1 points · Posted at 03:31:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It used to mean "lacking knowledge", and now it means "rude or offensive". It irks me because now we don't have a word for when someone is actually lacking knowledge, and we didn't need another word for rude/offensive (we already have the words "rude" and "offensive" for that).
One time, one of my coworkers was calling someone and she said "Oh my god! It went straight to voicemail! That is SO ignorant!" I'm not even making this up.
Synergy. Which is kind of a shame, as its intended meaning is actually rather useful. But corporate jargon has kind of made it into a joke, unfortunately.
"god" (actually it never could be clear at all as you can not point to it, it simply has no reference in our experience...it is a psychotic phantasy in a collective trance hypnosis...used generally to debunk , harass or opress others and ourselves) - of course people try o phatom it by using rhymes like "good"...The biblical "god-name" is different as it - yehoweh- denotes a concrete emotionally experienced process: when we cretae some new entity (in emotions). Howeh means present being and Ye-howeh refers to it in the future. (In German it could be translated as Werden, Becoming, but is a form - in future - of the verb To Be or To Exist.) The concept (the whole Bible text) was preserved mainly because this was the best explanation for the word "god" ("el" in the Bible that referst to something Upward) by giving it a meaning ful name and reference. Imagine just for a moment that it means Futurator and whenever you use - or read - the word "god" imagine this context behind or around it. /The Futurator "asks you to love your enemy or the stranger" and so on...)
Perfect, brilliant, and genius. I cringe whenever I hear these words used to describe another person, and usual assume the exact opposite until proven otherwise
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Discriminate. A bigot does not discriminate. The act of lumping a general group of people together & assigning them collective qualities is literally the opposite of discriminating.
Hate. "Ugh, Carla wore the same shirt as me. I hate her." No you dislike her. Hitler hated Jews. To me there is a clear separation.
arhanv · 1 points · Posted at 06:47:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Claustrophobia"
Just because you're in a small room, doesn't mean that you have Claustrophobia. Some people really are terrified of being in small spaces... Feeling a slight lack of air isn't Claustrophobia
Class, or classy. Whenever something is actually classy, it is never stated, because it just is. But the moment something is called "classy" it's almost anything but.
byJSN · 1 points · Posted at 08:27:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rape. Online players and feminists desensitized it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:29:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"The Army ain't no place for a black man"
These words may have been true a lifetime ago when it was...less popular...to be black in America, but things are different now. Yet, this rhetoric is commonly repeated in the "black community" til this very day. Despite what Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and others would have everyone believe, race relations between blacks and whites are significantly better today than they once were.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:58:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Myriad: people think 'lots': actual meaning 'ten thousand'
Enormity: people think 'big': actual meaning 'great evil'
Fulsome: people think 'lots': actual meaning 'repulsive'
Decimate: people think 'slaughter all': actual meaning 'kill one in ten'
Disinterested: people think 'bored': actual meaning 'unbiased'
Continual: people think 'non-stop': actual meaning 'stop and start'
And so many more...
Yes, I know the English language is a living evolving thing, but if you're someone who knows what the words actually mean, it's make you twitchy when even reputable sources (e.g. the BBC) get these wrong
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:30:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is gonna be controversial, but 'anti-semitism'. It used to be used to describe people who were actually against Jews, now its used against anyone who criticises Israel or sticks up for Palestine, even if the person themselves is Jewish.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:33:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Offended.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:35:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I want to say the pound sign since it's now a hashtag, but that's not exactly a word.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:22:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Terrific". It used to be past tense for something that caused terror, "I got held at gunpoint once, it was terrific". It's definition changed, past tense for something great that has happened. "Jimmy got an A+ on his test, it's just terrific!" .. now, it's used in a sarcastic manner for when something goes wrong.
Guys. It use to be about references a group of people of both males and females. Now you get females who get offended when you walk into a room and say "hey guys, how's things?"..... " ohh, so mean everyone else except me?" "UWOTM8?"
"Skill", or more usually "skills". No longer the ability to craft a dagger/live in the wilderness/do integral calculus/do unspeakable things in bits of a computer nobody knew were there.
Skills don't actually have to be material any more. Instead, they can be things like "social skills", "communication skills", "leadership skills", and "self-management skills", none of which can be quantified - which means anyone can say they have them and not be conclusively proven wrong.
Racism. Not that there still isn't racism of course, but I think the left tends to use it as a go to now and thus its power as an insult gets deluded. If too many people get called racist, other people take that as backround noise and stop listening
Various forms of profanity. There was once a time where the word "fuck" would shock people. Now it's introduced as the every second or third word in most people's conversation.
The word love it's lost its meaning entirely we say we love things so much that we really only like. "I loved that movie" "i loved that food" "i loved that book" when love has such a more deeper feeling than just liking material things. The main problem is we don't have many words to replace with love so we just use love but in doing this we lose the more deeper meaning of what love is
The word sociopath. I see so many people use it to describe people they don't like or with whom have philosophical disagreements. Any time someone is called a sociopath on websites like Reddit, I pretty much immediately discount the commenter.
Dashboard. Originally, It isn't that cluster of gauges, or readouts in the cab of your car or anything. It's literally a board, that stops dirt from getting into your buggy when your horse dashes.
Most people have no idea what it means (like the origin), they just say it because they always heard it growing up. It has no relevant meaning and does nothing for anyone. People sneeze. Just go on with your life. You don't have to say something every time someone sneezes. IT'S A NORMAL BODILY FUNCTION.
And if you are one of the people who say it, don't be upset when someone doesn't "thank you" for it. You literally did nothing for them. Don't expect something in return for doing nothing.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 17:27:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuck is such a wonder full word. It can be a verb, noun, interjection, it conveys emotions and attitude so well, it's the only infix in the emglish language, and is very flexible
4e2n0t · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:40 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
True, all to the sacrifice of the original meaning, for the most part.
Reform. It literally means "change" but has that positive connotation that is used to subjectively brand a particular type of vague change as the good change.
Lousy. It isn't often used, but when it is it means poor quality. But it used to mean having a lot of something. This came from the original meaning that something that was lousy was infested with louse. So being lousy with <blank> meant being metaphorically infested with <blank>.
Saying "I'm lousy with women," means you have zero game now, but it used to mean you couldn't keep track of all the tail you were lining up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:17 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
These days awesome just means cool. Awesome used to mean what flabbergasting, awe inspiring, and stupefying mean today. When you read old books like the bible you will come across descriptions such as "and it was awesome." It sounds hilarious given the current understanding of the word but think about what the word is actually made of: "awe-some" as in it is made of and creates awe. Awesome used to be an incredibly powerful word that was reserved for describing that which was truly worthy such as seeing the world below from orbit of space, or peoples visions of gods.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:16:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you're really scared / afraid because someone wrote "Trump" on a wall, I don't know what those words mean anymore. The three above words appear to just mean, "upset that someone doesn't have the exact same opinions as I do."
diaboo · 0 points · Posted at 22:25:10 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Honestly, "upset" would just be a better word to use in general. Scared, offended, and unsafe more often than not don't give a very good idea of how people feel about a problem or how big a problem is. "Upset" just sounds more mature.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:55:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Gender" used to be the distinction between masculine and feminine traits linked to respective sexes. Now it's a completely useless term hijacked by mentally ill people trying to deny biological realities.
To be fair, even in the days of AIM, I don't think I ever actually laughed out loud when I typed lol.
hooch · 0 points · Posted at 18:56:39 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Hipster" is the guy who wears flannel while he makes whiskey at his own still, then hand-cranks a record player for tunes while he whittles his own canoe out of reclaimed driftwood.
I'm not a hipster because I buy records sometimes.
Actually the real original meaning was someone who hung out in the East Village, read Ginsberg and Kerouac went to basement clubs and listened to poetry. See also Beatnick.
And whenever a teacher use it correctly, you have to listen to a handful of annoying memelords in the corner laugh their asses off and refuse to shut up.
If you divide "cannot" into "can" and "not", it doesn't mean "unable to," it means "able to not." I can't am not able to prove that the latter is the original meaning, but it's what I would assume it is.
jeufie · 0 points · Posted at 20:42:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Peruse means to read intently, while it is often used by people who mean the opposite.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 20:46:06 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sucks. It means the same thing, but it seems like everyone forgot where it came from: sucking dick. I remember when it was kind of a bad word (probably until like ten years ago). Now, it gets casually thrown around in ads and even in journalism.
Decimated- In the Roman empire, if a certain unit did not fight as well as expected, they were lined up and every tenth man was killed. (Decimal= 1/10th= decimated). Now it has become the same as totally destroyed. Decimated = 1/10th destroyed.
nog00d · 0 points · Posted at 02:54:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Decimate. The term originated from Roman legions that would execute one tenth of mutinous soldiers, now is used to mean "completely obliterate. "
The words "i love you" it's not the same. Kids meeting people and within 2 weeks saying I love you. When truly they barely know each other. It just doesn't make sense to me.
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hippo_lives_matter · 640 points · Posted at 17:55:18 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Epic
Glory2Hypnotoad · 174 points · Posted at 19:56:06 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
True, though it's fun to imagine things people call epic as actual epics.
"Sing, muse, of the extra large basket of nachos, crowned in cheese, bane of arteries."
ThePeoplesBard · 159 points · Posted at 00:10:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I could not agree more.
https://clyp.it/wxi3hfmq
How My Body Dies
A G F E
Sing, muse, of the large basket of nachos,
crowned in cheese, bane of arteries.
Sing, muse, of the carton of ice cream,
drowned in fudge, my blood is sludge.
Sing, muse, of my epic weight,
of my thunder thighs, O', how my body dies.
mfpmkx · 3 points · Posted at 03:03:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Surprised not more upvotes ;(
DownvoteCommaSplices · 2 points · Posted at 03:57:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You are my second favorite Donovan <3
thefarsidenoob · 2 points · Posted at 04:26:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
May you never cease to amaze mate.
BonkeyKongCountry · 2 points · Posted at 17:48:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
A G F E will never be anything but The Cat Came Back to me.
Baryshnikov_Rifle · 2 points · Posted at 20:36:13 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love you.
kingmatt119 · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:43 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love you.
DownvoteCommaSplices · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Still can't unsee the moustache
axepig · 107 points · Posted at 18:07:18 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Such a nice word that has been completely denolished and became a shitty meme :/
[deleted] · 81 points · Posted at 20:16:43 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I had one of these girls in my gym class who would shout "oh my god epic fail!" every time she missed the hoop playing basketball. She was also not very good.
Scrappy_Larue · 34 points · Posted at 23:07:13 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Epic fail" should be reserved for actual epic failures, like the Hindenburg explosion.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 23:56:01 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
And even then, if somebody said "epic fail" I might slap them in the face.
sup3rdr01d · 28 points · Posted at 22:16:31 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
But was she hot though
[deleted] · 37 points · Posted at 22:19:25 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not at all
nau5 · 53 points · Posted at 22:20:10 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
ball don't lie
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:37 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hips don't either.
TacoMasters · 19 points · Posted at 22:13:54 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I guess you can say; she is an EPIC failure.
Ahehuehuehueheuheu...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:25 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Watching the internet bleed into real life in school is something i'm glad i never really experienced.
Ameisen · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:13 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
And by Agile.
Roarlord · 78 points · Posted at 19:51:34 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
What if we got Gilgamesh, Odysseus, and Beowulf all together? That could be pretty epic.
[deleted] · 31 points · Posted at 22:29:43 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Pretty epic"
So where's Helen of Troy?
Roarlord · 34 points · Posted at 22:36:33 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why, she's the one bringing them together. Odysseus is fighting Persians, Gilgamesh and Enkidu are trying to double team Helen, and Beowulf just wants to witness some legendary beauty to cancel out the vision of Grendel's mother from his mind.
itmakessenseincontex · 9 points · Posted at 23:58:12 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I need this movie
TotallyTheSysadmin · 1 points · Posted at 12:17:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
But where are Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel?
Peli-kan · 1 points · Posted at 12:32:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
And then Achilles comes out of nowhere and fights a river.
bigubossu · 1 points · Posted at 04:26:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
GIRUGAMESH
singhforthewin · 1 points · Posted at 07:21:47 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
GIRUGAMESH
Beidah · 1 points · Posted at 03:46:33 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sounds like the plot to Fate/Stay Night
I_just_hate_you_all · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:21 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oooooh hilarious
luaP_uoY_kcuF · 7 points · Posted at 00:06:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Someone needs to explain to the advertisers on my Facebook page that there is no such thing as "An Epic Tweet." One cannot be epic in 140 characters.
YoudontknowSMIT · 10 points · Posted at 18:42:37 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Came here to say this. If you ride, or ski, go to any/most Vail Resorts mountain. You can use your Epic Pass to get on the mountain, perhaps get a lesson at the Epic Academy, test your skills at the Epic Racing, have an Epic Burger for lunch, and when you'll all done you can check what lifts you used that day on EpicMix. If they were honest they'd just all their prices as epic.
FuffyKitty · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know two different software programs called Epic, so that really ruined it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:28:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank you. This guy Jesse I knew would say everything was "Epic". I am so glad I don't have to hear that word come out of his idiotic mouth ever again.
hippo_lives_matter · 1 points · Posted at 10:55:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Did you kill him?
GildoFotzo · 1 points · Posted at 08:02:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know several people who even dont know what epic means.
Vigilante17 · 0 points · Posted at 21:58:30 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ironic
this_reasonable_guy · 521 points · Posted at 17:53:25 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gay has gone from happy--->homosexual--->lame/derogatory term for homosexual--->ok word for homosexual.
rangda · 101 points · Posted at 18:19:20 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
It meant lighthearted and cheerful, then it was used to hint about people being sexually uninhibited in a socially unacceptable way, both men and women. Prostitutes and people that would sleep around freely. That's how it became associated with homosexuality in the first place, with gay sex being seen as something that only men with poor morals would be doing.
NewbornMuse · 26 points · Posted at 21:44:07 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
And then it became a slur, and then the gay acceptance movement used the word to describe themselves and effectively bleached all negative connotation out of it.
Ahmrael · 18 points · Posted at 04:07:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
In taking the word as their own, they made it useless as a weapon against them.
Fr0thBeard · 2 points · Posted at 16:10:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is a successful example of mass cultural acceptance through the embracing of the slur.
I wonder why then, the 'N' word is still so divisive? With the inclusion into music, culture, and literature of the African American community, why is this word still considered taboo or inappropriate in most situations, while gay is now completely acceptable?
Is this still persistent because of race being an obvious identifying characteristic, and sexual preference is not? Could it be indicative of the deep roots of racism vs. the relatively recent emergence of 'gay culture'? Or, does it show the cohesion of the 'gay community' in an effort to disarm the word, while the African American community is still polarized on the usage of their own slurs (as in some members use the word freely, while others are insulted by it, quite often dependent upon the race of the person speaking or recieving the term)?
This has always fascinated me!
mnefu · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:57 on May 20, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is it? At what point in history was "gay" specifically a slur for gay (in the modern sense) people? At what point was there a specific effort to "reclaim" it? I kind of get the feeling that you are jumping to this conclusion just because you want an excuse to use slurs.
IIRC the history of the word is pretty complicated. A few decades back it had a much more broad definition, it was used in kind of the same way we use "LGBT" now. Going back further it had twin meanings along the lines of "jolly" and "sexually immoral".
Thepsycoman · 1 points · Posted at 09:57:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just like wog with the whole wogboy franchise.
Ahmrael · 2 points · Posted at 10:47:30 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
...could you repeat that in English please?
Thepsycoman · 2 points · Posted at 22:14:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wog.... As in the previously rude was of addressing Greeks, Italians, ect. But then a group of Greeks made a movie called Wogboy which was popular enough to warrant a sequel. Since that time wog hasn't really been offensive anymore.
L0NESHARK · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Was it ever a slur by itself? It was and still is used as a negative term for basically everything in the world but was calling a gay person simply "gay" ever an insult in itself? Did gay people ever not want to be referred to as gay?
Im genuinely ignorant about this.
Surtrsflame · 12 points · Posted at 21:59:28 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, I do have poor morals.
rangda · 2 points · Posted at 04:29:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hey, now, don't listen to those shitty outdated opinions! Fuck those guys! Literally, if you want to!
pr0x3 · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gay still means happy in the UK. At least people I know from the UK use the word gay for happy.
MeinKampfyCar · 3 points · Posted at 02:58:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No it doesn't. It means the same thing.
Hugh_Jampton · 1 points · Posted at 10:49:47 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have lived in UK my whole life have never once outside of a book seen people use it in that form
[deleted] · 40 points · Posted at 20:12:35 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's kinda weird looking at works that used the word 'gay' back when it meant happy.
Suddenly there's a whole sub-plot in The Great Gatsby where Daisy becomes a lesbian, but somehow becomes cleansed of her homosexuality when she meets Gatsby again.
KittyWithASnapback · 21 points · Posted at 23:27:03 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I mean, she could be bi
halofreakrun · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Get out of here with your 'logic' and 'reasoning'.
111uhh1 · 2 points · Posted at 11:38:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Here's the trope page for that phenomenon!
ApertureBrowserCore · 1 points · Posted at 02:02:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I would read that book in a heartbeat.
thegiantcat1 · 1 points · Posted at 14:21:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Zoro the Gay Blade" Would like a word with you
F4ST_M4ST3R · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:51 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
leo is a lady killer, after all
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 00:09:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
We still have things like a gaytime ice cream in Australia.
pokestar14 · 3 points · Posted at 09:02:47 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Golden Gaytimes are delicious.
demostravius · 1 points · Posted at 11:18:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Best Icecream there is.
randomXKCD1 · 2 points · Posted at 03:29:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
In a similar vein, queer just used to just mean odd but became a derogatory term for gay/lesbian.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:59:27 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Huh??? I'm in debate and we refer to all LGBT as queers. There's a whole type of case you can even write called Queer Pessimism.
LordBrandon · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:05 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gay men grab every derogatory term thrown at them, and adopt it. "Homosexual", is actually the word I've heard the least.
ZorackSF · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:21 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Evidently 'bad' might come from an old word for gay too, I want to spread that around so I can laugh at people getting up in arms about the use of 'bad'. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bad&allowed_in_frame=0
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:33:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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El_Hoxo · 3 points · Posted at 02:38:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Man that's so fucking gay"
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:45:58 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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El_Hoxo · 2 points · Posted at 11:24:53 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ahhhh, okay. Sorry.
Mackowatosc · 1 points · Posted at 13:19:30 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Out of curiosity (not a native english speaker here) what was the "ok word" for homosexual, when "gay" was considered derogatory ? :)
kunibob · 67 points · Posted at 18:23:26 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Interesting. If someone is telling me something interesting, and I say so, it's going to sound like I'm brushing them off, even if I'm being genuine.
myrmyam · 13 points · Posted at 03:08:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
A great suggestion I got to avoid this is to say why it is interesting, that way you will seem more sincere and it will keep the conversation going, especially if you have a follow up question.
KemSem · 2 points · Posted at 08:45:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
LPT. TIL.
kunibob · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, this is definitely the best approach! Also I find I naturally ask a bunch of questions about things that interest me, anyway, so I'm sure my sincerity must come across even when my vocabulary is lacking. I try to never just leave it at "interesting" and nothing else, but it does make me sad such a fitting word has lost all its power.
LUTHERLIVES · 2 points · Posted at 03:13:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah I hate it when people tell me that anymore. No elaboration, it just comes off like "This is what I say because I have nothing to say."
be_my_main_bitch · 2 points · Posted at 08:30:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
if something tastes interesting... it's shit
labiblioteka · 2 points · Posted at 14:23:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine used to come to me with her life problems and I would genuinly say thats a shame. Because it was over MSN she thought i wasn't being genuine and stopped talking to me about that stuff for a long time.
kunibob · 2 points · Posted at 22:31:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn, yeah, I can understand both sides of that story. Text communication is the worst for words like these, especially if the person is already feeling a bit self-conscious or defensive.
onewhosleepsnot · 400 points · Posted at 17:42:47 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Awesome
su5 · 199 points · Posted at 18:21:29 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
You saying you arent filled with reverential respect mixed with fear and wonder at the idea of having pizza for dinner.
[deleted] · 84 points · Posted at 19:01:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I am.
su5 · 18 points · Posted at 00:18:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Kawabunga
arson_cat · 1 points · Posted at 08:56:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, you see, it's "booyakasha!" these days.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:42:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Booyahkasha...that's so radical.
arson_cat · 1 points · Posted at 12:54:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sounds weird when he says it.
kenrose2101 · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:14 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
I believe the word you are looking for is gnarly
arson_cat · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:47 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, kind of...
Lady_Lance · 32 points · Posted at 22:14:16 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I remember when I first read The Chronicles of Narnia (I think it was in Prince Caspian), there was this part where they are in this fortress that was described as 'awesome' and I was really confused because the word seemed so out of place. When actually, that was the 'correct' usage of awesome.
G9Lamer · 25 points · Posted at 01:52:45 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah, Aslan did a sick grind across a parapet and in the process slammed down a monster without spilling it. Come to think of it. That might fall into the "rad" category.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 02:03:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah, just a rad fortress.
Fr0thBeard · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:05 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Uh oh, better fast travel to the Red Rocket settlement and grab a few Rad Away before going in!
paulwhite959 · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:22 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
then you need better pizza
[deleted] · 52 points · Posted at 18:45:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
What's funny is that people say 'awesomeness' when they could just say 'awe'. Oh, the burdensomeness of redundant suffixes...
Glory2Hypnotoad · 47 points · Posted at 19:49:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're different words at this point since the modern usage of awesome has little to do with awe.
2T2T · 12 points · Posted at 21:22:44 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
What about awesomesauce?
Noctis_Fox · 3 points · Posted at 01:49:36 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Only allowed to say this if you're super random. /s
Holds Up Spork
Ezl · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or are named Julie.
KingGumboot · 1 points · Posted at 03:10:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
God damn it, I used awesomesauce as an online username for years and still do a double take every time I see it as a result
Makhiel · 4 points · Posted at 23:47:24 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought awesomeness causes one to be filled with awe.
Baryshnikov_Rifle · 9 points · Posted at 20:36:57 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like "comfortability" instead of "comfort".
penis_in_my_hand · 0 points · Posted at 03:36:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Legitness" comes to mind as an illegitimate version of "legitimacy". I have conversed with people using this "word" who did not know the word "legitimate" or "legitimacy" existed.
Genlsis · 8 points · Posted at 22:38:32 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like a hotdog?
sjhock · 3 points · Posted at 01:42:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's the dog's bollocks!
LegacyLemur · 2 points · Posted at 10:08:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
TERRified
TERRific
AWEsome
AWful
The English language is strange
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:42:34 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Awesome is still awesome!
madcorewest · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:10 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Like a hot dog?"
Wheresmyaccount1121 · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The word should be able to describe something like a crazy murder spree. Because it actually fills you with awe. But of course, in this day and age, hearing about a shooting and calling it "awesome" will get you a whole lot of weird looks.
Chansharp · 1 points · Posted at 03:47:45 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's why I say "biblically awesome" when I want the more true to roots meaning.
sneakyninja87 · 1 points · Posted at 04:26:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Red and yellow socks? They're awesome!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:16:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dean?
LooseStuul · -1 points · Posted at 17:51:26 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
yup.....this one
intravenouspizza · 296 points · Posted at 18:21:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hacked.
hellabad · 130 points · Posted at 01:02:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
takes a selfie on friends snapchat
HACKED BY _______________
Ameisen · 73 points · Posted at 02:02:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
4chan
Aplayer12345 · 10 points · Posted at 08:59:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Who is this 4chan?
EvilCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 14:24:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
the king of the neckbeard shutins
_TheGreatDekuTree_ · 2 points · Posted at 15:07:32 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
IronedSandwich · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:07 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
WE DID IT REDDIT
PIE_man901 · 1 points · Posted at 11:10:53 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Having shotguns for legs.
Am I doing this right?
JackNZack · 124 points · Posted at 00:34:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Jesus fuck, if you know someone's password and log into their account without permission, it's not 'hacking'. It's being a giant twat.
Siftey · 4 points · Posted at 05:25:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I mean... what you describe kinda is exactly hacking.
JackNZack · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Whatever- Still makes you a twat
Tuxxmuxx · 11 points · Posted at 02:19:27 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Technically it is, but I get what you're saying.
SexualPie · 3 points · Posted at 02:55:05 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
i dont think anybody is ACTUALLY claiming to have hacked them in that case. they know what they're saying is dumb. its a joke you tool
JackNZack · 3 points · Posted at 03:25:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Okay okay, it could be used as joke.
But I have seen people who are so proud of their accomplishment there is no possible way that they could ever be joking.
wtfamireadingdotjpg · 28 points · Posted at 05:09:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Life hacks" makes my blood boil. And most of them are awful (like the fucking one where you drill holes in a can to make a cheese grater).
Deroni76 · 3 points · Posted at 06:21:45 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
LIFE HACK: Eat food to not die!!!!
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 12:45:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
LIFE-HACK HACK: DRINK WATER TO LIVE LONGER THAN WITH JUST FOOD ALONE.
SuperDoofusParade · 7 points · Posted at 05:34:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even worse: "mind hacks."
themanrighthere · 0 points · Posted at 14:20:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
worst: LPT
nettkrabbe · 2 points · Posted at 07:16:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you buy a bottle of soda, you can pour out the soda and replace it with water. Life hack to get a cheap drinking bottle!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:47:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you stab holes into your curtains, you can let in the sunlight while they are closed.
handyandy69 · 2 points · Posted at 12:43:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I would feel alot better if they called them life tricks. Because when I think of life hacks, I think of going into your dna and switching some things around so i can have a third arm (strictly for researching purposes), not "what can I put into my back pockets so i can sit more comfortably... IM HACKING GUYS!!!".
Peli-kan · 1 points · Posted at 12:33:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
HAX
IronedSandwich · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
what's wrong with "Life Pro Tips"?
wtfamireadingdotjpg · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's fine, because that's what they are. They're not "hacks", you're not hacking anything. You're using a paperclip to hold up a toothbrush.
I'm in security, it grinds everyone's teeth when someone says "hacks" and it's food related or whatever.
IronedSandwich · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I meant it as a rhetorical question to those who use "Life Hacks"
barracuda415 · 1 points · Posted at 12:07:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not in Bangladesh.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:47:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
So true. Forgetting to log out of an account on a public computer doesn't mean you've been hacked it just means you're stupid.
NickySigg · 955 points · Posted at 17:26:27 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally
FredWampy · 276 points · Posted at 17:39:14 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
My head literally exploded when I saw this answer.
luivzilla · 123 points · Posted at 17:46:34 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
rip in peace
thatguyfromnewyork · 63 points · Posted at 20:05:59 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:06:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
RIP in pepperones
SpinsFerDayz · 2 points · Posted at 02:30:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
To shreds you say?
Not_A_Facehugger · 2 points · Posted at 04:37:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
and his wife?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:32:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No his rip
Fr0thBeard · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
To shreds you say?
DemonCipher13 · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:19 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
RIP in pepperoni.
porsche_914 · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:33 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rest in deace
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:02:25 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I let rip all the time, company or not
Zerotan · 1 points · Posted at 02:25:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Requiem in pepperoni
chargeecho · 1 points · Posted at 10:59:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rest in piece in piece?
luivzilla · 1 points · Posted at 11:57:30 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
yeah
AlekRivard · 22 points · Posted at 18:35:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
F
Lokimonoxide · 25 points · Posted at 06:02:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
UCK OFF
am0rn · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
A
FredWampy · -7 points · Posted at 18:39:07 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
R
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 18:41:33 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
A
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 18:46:11 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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FredWampy · 5 points · Posted at 18:47:07 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
G
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 18:48:42 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
O
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 18:50:58 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 18:51:38 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
We did it Reddit!
Chromedinky · 3 points · Posted at 19:02:28 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good job team, lets take a day off, eh?
TheBoyInBlueShoes · 1 points · Posted at 01:33:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
My head figuratively combusted at the time my brain received an electrical impulse from the optic nerve triggered by your parent comment entitled "Literally" to this post concerning overused words.
Rafiki47 · 1 points · Posted at 10:39:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Im not kidding i litterally died
knifepen · 77 points · Posted at 17:42:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
It's literally lost its meaning. Literally
TigerBeetle · 13 points · Posted at 18:03:18 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by that.
Truenewf · 8 points · Posted at 18:07:04 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Figuratively lost its meaning?
TigerBeetle · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:48 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, figuratively still has a fairly consistent definition.
shpongolian · 7 points · Posted at 18:23:21 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, figuratively speaking
MudnuK · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:35 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm literally being figurative right now. Maybe.
hellabad · 0 points · Posted at 01:07:13 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
They changed the meaning of literally a few years back in the dictionary. Copy/Paste
TILtacocatninjaIPA · 0 points · Posted at 01:40:53 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thats SO ironic!
michaelpinkwayne · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:29 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lost *its meaning
knifepen · 2 points · Posted at 18:15:01 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fixed it just for you, man
JackNZack · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I really don't like this new idea of answering the OP's comment with whatever they want stopped for free karma..
cookerlv · 0 points · Posted at 04:52:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly. The purpose of literally is to mean something that sounds fake or like hyperbole but is actually truth, but now that literally can be used for exaggeration, the entire purpose of the word is literally gone.
[deleted] · 58 points · Posted at 20:48:28 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
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OneGoodRib · 48 points · Posted at 20:59:37 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's how I feel. The point of the word "literally" should be to say "No, this isn't hyperbole, this really happened", so if people are using it as hyperbole... what then?
It's one thing when people are like "My head literally exploded", because it's obvious that didn't really happen, but when people are like "I spent literally 30 minutes writing this" or "I literally peed my pants", how can anyone tell if you were exaggerating or you meant you actually peed your pants and had to take them off because they were wet? I guess people could use "actually" for this purpose, but it doesn't sound the same.
Vigilante17 · 9 points · Posted at 22:09:32 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you take literally out, it works just fine. "I peed my pants" vs "I literally peed my pants."
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 00:38:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
She went crazy.
I died when I saw it.
I'm on the edge of my seat.
All of these examples can be figurative or literal and it's impossible to know which without using an adverb.
ManPumpkin · 1 points · Posted at 01:39:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:20:58 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Which is an adverb....
ManPumpkin · 1 points · Posted at 13:16:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was proposing an alternative for literally, not adverbs. I just responded to the wrong comment.
Whoops.
aegis_sum · 1 points · Posted at 02:20:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"I died when I saw it" is impossible without ghosts or zombie type things.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:20:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203400604578072900187957988
aegis_sum · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Was only able to read the first paragraph, the rest is behind a pay wall.
fletchindubai · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually in that context the use of literally works, because the speaker is indicating that they literally did this rather than "I peed my pants" meaning I laughed a lot.
Sevrek · 2 points · Posted at 03:21:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The same argument can be made for literally every other hyperbole
MattCubed · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, just consider the context of the sentence. Does it make sense that the person would have actually peed their pants? And generally someone provides more detail after a sentence like that. If all else fails just ask, but that should very rarely be necessary. How many times has this issue actually affected you?
c00yt825 · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hyperbollically
StormCrow1771 · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"For real."
arson_cat · 1 points · Posted at 09:07:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then you use "literally" in a sentence and add "and I'm not saying this as a hyperbole".
An explanation within an explanation.
NeilZod · 1 points · Posted at 13:49:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The trouble is that before literally became a figurative intensifier it was used to intensify true statements, and we still use it both ways. If you remove literally and still can't tell whether the sentence is true or figurative, then it is likely that literally isn't the problem.
MattCubed · 4 points · Posted at 02:03:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well literally still means what it's meant to mean, if can just also be used in a figurative sense. You figure out which meaning it has in a sentence based on context, and if you're fluent in English, I would say this is pretty trivial to do.
Jeanpuetz · 2 points · Posted at 12:06:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yup, I use both meanings of literally pretty frequently, and I don't think that I've ever been misunderstood. And if there's the possibilty of a misunderstanding, you can always add something like "And this is the truth, I'm not speaking figuratively!" or something like that.
And I'm not even a native speaker.
Thunyosi · 2 points · Posted at 15:27:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The meaning you're referring to is already post semantic shift. The original latin "Literalis" meant "of or pertaining to letters or writing". Not only is that true, but the vast, vast majority of the vocabulary of every natural language on the planet has undergone significant semantic shift over time (i.e. a change in meaning). This is simply how language works, and there is no stopping it or getting around it. "LIterally" has not "lost its meaninng", it changed to a new meaning and then gained an additional meaning as an intensifier.
Makhiel · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:02 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Non-figuratively? :p
640x480 · 1 points · Posted at 02:27:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think people use "actually" now.
freshprince9200 · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You've gotta give better context clues to let people know which meaning you assigned to the word.
Superdan01 · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
From now on, Xlibughter (ks•LI•bug•tour) means literally.
ZenDragon · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:05 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You just escape it with another literally. So literally literally.
hoffi_coffi · 1 points · Posted at 12:17:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually, definitely, really, completely, totally, literally, absolutely - all used as intensifiers. Maybe literally was the last one, no one complains about the others.
NeilZod · 1 points · Posted at 14:27:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
We'll just say "word for word".
Sevrek · 1 points · Posted at 03:20:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
If it really bothers you so much you should learn the difference between denotation and connotation
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:51:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
To be fair it has been used in a figurative way for years. Mark Twain himself used it figuratively.
Sevrek · 6 points · Posted at 03:20:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Except that literally, literally means the same thing still.
ITT people don't understand the difference between denotation and connotation
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 20:15:27 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Disagree. Lost its meaning means the old meaning no longer applies. It certainly does, and the "new" meaning has been in use since the 1600s. It wasn't until the late 19th century that a woman pointed out how it doesn't make any sense. Old timey redditor.
elmoteca · 2 points · Posted at 04:22:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Maybe OP was using "literally" figuratively?
DerekSavoc · 1 points · Posted at 12:47:06 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
I use it correctly in conversation as much as I can to fight against its decline.
weaksaucedude · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:25 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
On the bright side, every time I read a sentence with "literally", I read it in Chris Traeger's voice.
Faugh · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm of the opposite opinion! Let's ruin "precisely" next!
Citnam · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Captain Literally to the rescue! https://youtu.be/9jh4Mpgbi4A
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:16:19 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
The definition of the word literally has literally been changed in the dictionary because of it's constant misuse.
speaks_in_redundancy · 8 points · Posted at 18:24:06 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Which doesn't make any sense because it's used as hyperbole.
aStarving0rphan · 9 points · Posted at 20:06:28 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's literally been used this way for at least 400 years
Pachinginator · 0 points · Posted at 21:35:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
but is it pronounced "Litrally" or "Literally"
Alphaj626 · 0 points · Posted at 18:27:52 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is literally the perfect answer for this question.
Deroni76 · 0 points · Posted at 06:19:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally this.
GaryNOVA · 0 points · Posted at 06:48:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's literally lost its meaning.
rydan · 0 points · Posted at 08:46:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally's second definition in the dictionary is literally "not literally".
Didsota · -1 points · Posted at 18:50:04 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally literally.
IronedSandwich · -1 points · Posted at 21:11:04 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
figuratively? :P
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 22:43:37 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think this is almost over... thank god.
AnnoyinKnight · -1 points · Posted at 02:29:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, literally!
xxMallyxx · -1 points · Posted at 03:23:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_DgJ8R-8XI&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=myjunkshared]
hellabad · -2 points · Posted at 01:05:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You know its bad when they changed the meaning of literally so people are no longer using it wrong.
[deleted] · 114 points · Posted at 17:53:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Incredible originally meant "not credible", but we use it more liberally today
BrandonMarlowe · 36 points · Posted at 23:20:03 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Unbelievable".
Gertrudedecides · 34 points · Posted at 00:34:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Inconceivable
couldbeworse54 · 39 points · Posted at 01:23:05 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I do not think that means what you think it means.
Fireanddiamonds · 2 points · Posted at 01:59:07 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No! That'd be Inconceivable!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:00:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just because he keeps using that word? So toxic.
Triquetra4715 · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just not perceivable
siyl1979 · 30 points · Posted at 18:03:55 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Huh. That's pretty incredible.
Alfred_978 · 5 points · Posted at 02:13:53 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That actually works both ways. Pretty ironic.
ZephyrWarrior · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
My head literally just exploded.
justanaccc · 1 points · Posted at 10:38:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's like you guys have meta OCD.
Zenis · 2 points · Posted at 02:02:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Astounding!
marxistmarx · 1 points · Posted at 03:45:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
By my beard!
Aplayer12345 · 1 points · Posted at 09:01:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No thanks, I just shaved mine.
FallingDarkness · 148 points · Posted at 19:03:30 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Anything the internet latches onto and spams into oblivion.
Examples:
Probably a dozen more I can't remember.
TheBoyInBlueShoes · 41 points · Posted at 01:42:35 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love myself some disagreeably damp, musty, and typically cold memes.
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 20:44:48 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage examples.
shiraz410 · 5 points · Posted at 02:31:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
examples intensifies
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:32:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
In a majestic form
rewfrew · 5 points · Posted at 21:18:51 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
going back even further that the internet, "cool" and "bad"
ThatguyMalone · 8 points · Posted at 21:17:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dank and Cuck especially.
Dank meant moist or damp years back, and now it's used because haha memes. Cuck was shorthand for cuckold but now is just used as another derisive term like pussy
HappyGoPink · 22 points · Posted at 01:41:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Words like "cuck" say more about the speaker than they do the object of the speaker's contempt.
kenrose2101 · 3 points · Posted at 15:57:57 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
They usually signal that you are speaking with a DT supporter. I refuse to write his name for fear of him getting joy out of seeing it.
HappyGoPink · 2 points · Posted at 17:02:11 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Delirium tremens?
Edit: Yes, it's ALWAYS a sign that you're dealing with a DT Dittohead. I'm glad they self-label, so I can ignore them.
kenrose2101 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:44 on May 20, 2016 · (Permalink)
Haha delirium tremens.
I_EAT_GUSHERS · 3 points · Posted at 03:09:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Alpha
Mynameisnotdoug · 2 points · Posted at 02:35:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is cuck actually a word?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:53:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Mynameisnotdoug · 1 points · Posted at 03:02:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, yes, but it's not a word.
It's like saying "kek" is a word.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:31:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Scyrothe · 3 points · Posted at 04:12:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'll give you a hint: if you're able to debate whether or not something is a word with some stranger, probably quite far away, and you both know what the discussion is about, it's a word
LastHaze · 2 points · Posted at 01:50:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Was dank ever actually a word outside of the internet?
Scyrothe · 6 points · Posted at 04:09:47 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I feel like it was, but almost exclusively in order to describe either a. caves, or b. dungeons
nawkuh · 6 points · Posted at 04:13:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's been a way to describe good weed for a long time.
Ezl · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Means cold and damp. A cave or basement can be dank. It's a pretty common word actually.
StaleTheBread · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Guess I can't watch Steven Universe anymore
c1pe · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Same
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
A guy used "savage" as a verb with me the other day. Is that a thing we're doing now?
FireBreathingElk · 1 points · Posted at 13:14:45 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
To be fair, there already is a verb form of savage. From dictionary.com:
verb (used with object), savaged, savaging.
11. to assault and maul by biting, rending, goring, etc.; tear at or mutilate: numerous sheep savaged by dogs.
12. to attack or criticize thoroughly or remorselessly; excoriate: a play savaged by the critics.
Shepard_Chan · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I wondered about the word salty. Why salt? Why not pepper for example. Why can't you get peppery? I guess one possible explanation wpuld be equating the facial expression of someone who just ate something too salty to how a person feels but still. I find it a tad bit strange.
TeutorixAleria · 1 points · Posted at 06:45:58 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Salty has been used in that context for longer than the internet I think.
BlaiddSiocled · 1 points · Posted at 09:37:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is "salty" any worse than "bitter"?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:58:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I had literally (and I mean that) never seen the word "cuck" until reading your post today. I suppose I'll consider myself lucky.
FakesLaugh · 1 points · Posted at 11:06:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
This comment is gem. Too fucking savage and it is literally the best answer.
jaggoffsmirnoff · 1 points · Posted at 12:20:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
when did 'neckbeard' lose its meaning?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:33:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shut up cuck.
Telestomp · 67 points · Posted at 23:02:09 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
OCD, this one is way overused!
Scyrothe · 25 points · Posted at 04:17:13 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude it triggers my ocd so hard when people misuse it it's almost kinda like sheldon from big bang theory so nerdy haha xdd
[deleted] · -7 points · Posted at 06:02:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
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IronedSandwich · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
FTFY
LegacyLemur · 1 points · Posted at 10:15:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Funnily enough, Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder is actually much closer to what most people are talking about.
[deleted] · 260 points · Posted at 18:16:06 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Hipster." It used to be an actual group of people. Now it's just a generic insult you say to someone who does (or especially buys) something to look cool.
Also "cuck." Cuckold used to mean something very specific. Now it's just the equivalent of "spineless pussy."
hooch · 120 points · Posted at 18:52:58 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Hipster" isn't even about doing something to look cool anymore. I get called a hipster all the time. I don't do things to look cool, I just like records and I wear clothes that fit me. Sometimes I ride my bike because it's a good workout and I don't want to drive during rush hour. And for some reason I keep getting labeled that way.
It's not like I'm distilling my own whiskey while whittling a canoe out of reclaimed driftwood.
fb5a1199 · 47 points · Posted at 23:07:46 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like distilling whiskey and whittling canoes, but I'm clean shaven and wear wranglers & Hawaiian shirts, so fuck your hipster shit
thedankbank1021 · 28 points · Posted at 01:58:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hawaiian shirts? That's some hipster shit
Tshirt_Addict · -4 points · Posted at 05:00:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, that's some fat boy shit.
RocketCow · 3 points · Posted at 12:04:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That guy kicks ass. Right about now, the funk soul brother.
Triquetra4715 · 10 points · Posted at 01:16:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Quagmire?
[deleted] · 67 points · Posted at 19:22:14 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
But that's what I'm getting at. It never was about being "cool" in a conventional way.
To be fair, love for vinyl is the classic "hipster" thing. And "clothes that fit" sounds like "skinny jeans." Not necessarily hipster in itself, but adding that stuff up starts to get genuinely hipster.
The hipster coolness is not mainstream cool. It's a retro, offbeat kind of cool. Sometimes minimal. Often mocking modern ways of doing things. If they haven't already, hipsters will "rediscover" simple ways of making coffee, for example, because of all the popularity of espresso and K-cup. I'm kind of guilty of that myself. I insist on using a french press and feel it is better than drip coffee makers.
But is it a fixie? That's hipster.
Slo-MoDove · 33 points · Posted at 23:15:56 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pfft. No. It's a penny-farthing.
old_gold_mountain · 5 points · Posted at 01:10:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Penny farthings are fixies though
Wall_clinger · 3 points · Posted at 00:49:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Stove-top espresso makers are easily the best way to make espresso. It's very overdue for a comeback.
lwdwncheaplittlepunk · 3 points · Posted at 03:09:36 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"To be fair, love for vinyl is the classic "hipster" thing."
Its been ruined by Hipsters who drove the price up, but it used to be for audiophile nutcases with expensive TT setups. Not cheap crap picked up off the side of the road.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
A lot of those audiophile nutcases are hipsters though. Being hipster is not completely superficial. Though I personally question the ear of those audiophiles. I've seen them fooled before in blind tests. Like one audiophile insisted that speaker cables were important but couldn't tell the difference between a thick gauge copper wire and a coat hanger.
RRettig · 2 points · Posted at 02:40:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Due to the people I have been forced to be around for a significant portion of my adult life I absolutely hate french presses. I am not even sorry, just like you apologized when admitting it; I do judge people who use french presses and I won't drink coffee made in them out of protest.
Quotes from a recent snobby couples camping trip I was forced to go to:
"We only drink coffee out of a french press"
"I can't believe you don't have a french press"
"We don't use creamer"
"Sometimes we use creamer to cut the acidity"
Thanks for using the last of my creamer jackasses. They made a point to be coffee aficionados but failed to prove superiority.
bearigator · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, I'm not lying when I say that cold-brew coffee is the best tasting coffee I've ever had. If that's considered hipster, then I'll gladly be labeled as one.
Karinta · 1 points · Posted at 07:02:25 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fixies are fucking useless. 12-speed touring bikes all the way, baby!
pizza-yolo · 15 points · Posted at 00:35:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You sound like a real fucking hipster to me.
JamesMartian · 3 points · Posted at 08:49:07 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ok but sometimes you just have to accept that stuff makes you a hipster. Hipster is a category of ppl that do that stuff. Like I get you have reasons for why you do those things. Everyone has reasons for why they act the way they do. But liking that is what makes you a Hipster.
The guy distilling his whiskey probably has an excuse like "I'm not a hipster I just do this because I think it's fun and cheaper". We're so afraid to be put under a label and we think our excuses valid us not being under that label. But in reality if u do those things ppl are gonna put u under whichever label ur earning urself. If ur afraid of the label or it makes u uncomfortable just brush it off. But I suggest accepting who u are and be proud.
If u see a guy who smokes weed often your gonna label him as a stoner. But in his mind he's not a stoner. He smokes because he needs it to calm anxiety and because he's doing that he's not just a stoner. But really he's a stoner because he smokes often and he's afraid to admit it. But u have to realize that it doesn't matter why u do things, if u do those things people will put u under the label of people who do those things. It's how the world works.
MachineFknHead · 2 points · Posted at 01:50:39 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You like records, as in you buy vinyl?
hooch · 1 points · Posted at 12:23:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I listen to music mostly via Spotify. But when I find an album I really like, I buy it on vinyl so that I can actually own a physical copy.
MachineFknHead · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
What's the deal with vinyl? Like, why?
hooch · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:58 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well it's about owning a physical copy. CD's are digital and I already subscribe to Spotify Premium, which is high enough quality to be roughly the same as a CD. So I don't really see the point to buying CD's.
Plus vinyl has the added benefit of the large album art. Often there are also inserts or posters that you don't get with CD's.
tacojohn48 · 2 points · Posted at 02:38:53 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
There's a very easy test, how many gears does your bicycle have? 1=hipster
LittleNaysh · 1 points · Posted at 07:13:35 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Uh, not the person you were replying to, but, can you possibly explain how the idea of a bicycle with one gear, and someone who does something obscure to look "cool" have any type of correlation?
hooch · 1 points · Posted at 12:19:05 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Twelve. It's a racing bike
messedfrombirth · 1 points · Posted at 14:07:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yet...
Dinsdale_P · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
if you feel like you need to make explain shit so thoroughly and make excuses for your habits, you're a fucking hipster. sorry.
Mysticpoisen · 0 points · Posted at 22:13:31 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Records are cool. Records are analog audio, digital audio can't compare yet. It just annoys the shit out of me when people buy vinyl and play it on shitty $20 record players.
hooch · 1 points · Posted at 12:23:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I listen to music mostly via Spotify. But when I find an album I really like, I buy it on vinyl so that I can actually own a physical copy.
Mysticpoisen · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:30 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
My problem is why not buy a CD? I get it if your a huge fan and audiophile and you want to experience the music to the fullest, but if you play it to the open air with a shitty record player you lose all quality and you might as well be listening to it on digital like a CD and save a bunch of money.
hooch · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
CD's are digital. Spotify Premium can stream at a comparable bitrate to owning a CD. So why not buy an analog format? I have a nice Audio Technica turntable that sounds excellent. Plus you get that amazing album art.
Mysticpoisen · 2 points · Posted at 18:32:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then that's perfect! That's why you get vinyl. It's just that vinyl's become trendy, and people buy them and don't have the equipment to take advantage of the quality.
RRettig · 0 points · Posted at 02:33:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
But really man, saying "I wear clothes that fit me" sounds pretty hipster to me.
hooch · 1 points · Posted at 12:24:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Since when is wearing clothes that fit hipster? I think it's more just being an adult who can afford decent clothes.
bottlerocketz · -1 points · Posted at 06:03:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Found the hipster.
spitfire07 · 28 points · Posted at 20:44:16 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have never heard the word cuck used outside of Reddit, and it's only being used when people say they hate other people who use that word.
WorldsGreatestPoop · 3 points · Posted at 01:59:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've only heard it in certain videos I have seen on the Internet.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 20:48:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I heard it first on 4chan. But I don't go there anymore.
JayhawkRacer · 2 points · Posted at 04:25:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You must be filtering out the_donald. When I did that, I never saw the word again. Before, it was at least once every 15 posts on all.
TaylorS1986 · 5 points · Posted at 02:16:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's because most people who use it are neckbeards who never leave their parents' basements.
GordionKnot · 2 points · Posted at 22:11:26 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
my brother uses that, got it from reddit
i hate him for it
Draav · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:13 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I went in that Donald Trump subreddit once and it was used a lot there
PM_ME_PIZZA_PLS · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
We like using cuck.
Aristo-Cat · 3 points · Posted at 06:08:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Kind of telling, isn't it?
ranovin · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
My 14 year old brother has called me a cuck everyday for about three months now...
Kacke0525 · 0 points · Posted at 01:45:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Apparently Trump supporters are proud cucks or some such other made-up ridiculous shit.
Shnezzberry · 66 points · Posted at 20:40:35 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh god i just have a deep hatred for anyone who uses the word cuck. Please, just fuck off and die.
bondsbro · 34 points · Posted at 00:49:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Found the cuck
/s
Occams_Lazor_ · 9 points · Posted at 01:11:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cuck
noitarenoxe · 4 points · Posted at 02:20:07 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
IT'S CUCK SEASON
kjata · 5 points · Posted at 06:30:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It is a fantastically concise way of saying "Please never take anything I have to say seriously, because I believe that women should be kept in line and that men who don't agree with that assertion have no value as human beings!" For that, I tolerate the word's existence.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:16:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank you.
LordBrandon · 1 points · Posted at 02:50:26 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry I'll remember you prefer to be called a "spinless pussy"
TaylorS1986 · 9 points · Posted at 02:15:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
inside_your_face · 4 points · Posted at 09:46:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Drink a coffee from starbucks. "OMG such a hipster."
Drink a coffee from an independent coffee shop. "OMG such a hipster."
Can't win.
kenrose2101 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:12 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
I believe drinking starbucks makes you a yuppie, if that is still a word... I believe I am getting old
RandemMandem · 4 points · Posted at 00:34:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I cringe when I see people say cuck.. And not because they're shortening the word. I'm fairly sure 90% of the kids using that word don't actually know what it means.
Helreaver · 3 points · Posted at 11:20:36 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I only ever see Trump supporters/trolls use it. That's it. Nobody other than those that like Trump in one way or another use it. I don't understand.
kenrose2101 · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:26 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Simplistic language for a simplistic people. I once asked a Trump supporter if it meant what I thought it meant and what that had to do with anything. And then the ranting began
fletchindubai · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, we need to move on from hipster and replace it with something else. Society will just do this naturally, but the Hipster look has had a strangely long run.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:14:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
But that's just it. "Hipster" is not a "look" This is what annoys me.
Something similar happened to "punk" not too long ago. Punk is/was a real live subculture and scene. It's not just having colored hair and tattoos.
fletchindubai · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:09 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh sure, there really are Hipsters who use typewriters in cafes and nonsense like that, but for most people it's just a look. They may dress like that, but don't ride around Williamsburg on a penny farthing or whatever.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:49 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
And that's why "hipster" is a great answer to OP's question. Hipster used to mean something in terms of culture and behavior. I would argue that it's not even a look anymore. Especially on the internet you can be called a hipster for just about anything. And it's always use as an insult.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:57 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
And that's why "hipster" is a great answer to OP's question. Hipster used to mean something in terms of culture and behavior. I would argue that it's not even a look anymore. Especially on the internet you can be called a hipster for just about anything. And it's always use as an insult.
CrunchyKorm · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:20 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Came here looking for this. Hipster just seems like a term reserved for anyone under the age of 40, living in a city, and wearing glasses sometimes.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 20:56:38 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
For a while you had to at LEAST wear thick rimmed glasses to be called a hipster.
L_I_E_D · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:30 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
But I have a big round head and bad eyesight :(.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:12 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Maybe your head only looks big and round because of your eyesight. Either way you shouldn't be trusted with fashion decisions.
LittleNaysh · 1 points · Posted at 07:14:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Do you at least have some nice fuckin' kitties?
bobnye · 1 points · Posted at 01:58:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bonus points if they didn't have lenses.
stefatr0n · 2 points · Posted at 04:29:25 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Someone at work referred to me as a hipster because I bring a barista-made coffee to work every day. If really enjoying coffee made from locally roasted beans in a cafe owned by friends makes me a hipster, then fuck it.
GnarlyYo · -1 points · Posted at 18:49:40 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cracked had an article along the lines of this thread. But I specifically remember "hipster" being on there.
[deleted] · 31 points · Posted at 19:03:35 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
On my way.
FuzzPedalOfDoom · 34 points · Posted at 22:37:22 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Translates to "still in bed, but yeah, I should get up now"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"yeah yeah I got your message"
Norgenigga · 5 points · Posted at 01:37:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm right outside.
Bangersss · 1 points · Posted at 08:22:30 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm nearly ready. Aka I'll start getting ready now.
hfcobra · 214 points · Posted at 18:24:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ironic
SO many people use it when they should use coincidental.
Level3Kobold · 19 points · Posted at 04:00:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Irony is a pretty broad term. Whenever expectations and reality are at odds, it's usually a form of irony.
The vast majority of people who complain about misuse of irony are complaining in error. Which is a bit ironic.
Vigilante17 · 84 points · Posted at 22:18:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Its like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. Thats just unfortunate.
[deleted] · 45 points · Posted at 00:36:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Maybe the ironic thing about that song is that none of it is ironic.
ManPumpkin · 10 points · Posted at 01:40:58 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or maybe you're overestimating her ability as a songwriter and she just fucked up.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:53:30 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, she's not stupid. She's actually quite intelligent.
ManPumpkin · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I didn't say she was. Everyone makes mistakes and irony is an easy concept to get wrong.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:46:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Are you kidding? It's not a single mistake, it would be multiple mistakes from multiple people over multiple weeks during the writing and recording of the song.
You'd have to be a real fucking dumbass to not once make sure the 15+ examples of irony in your song are correct. Alanis is not dumb, she did it on purpose. The point of the song is to be ironic, in that none of the examples she gives of irony are valid.
Noctis_Fox · 1 points · Posted at 01:52:27 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
She has decent lyrics. I just sometimes wish that it wasn't her singing them.
She squeals at a high pitch, then goes low, then back up again, and back down. It's absolutely horrible to listen to and it sucks because some of her shit is interesting.
blivet · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I still like that album, though. I hadn't listened to it in years and heard a track from it while I was out someplace, and it really holds up.
Rileys10nipples · 1 points · Posted at 02:40:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Mr. Playitsafe spits some verbal irony.
effervescence1 · 1 points · Posted at 03:43:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the Semicolon song by The Lonely Island.
Korberos · 34 points · Posted at 23:34:19 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Irony - a situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that seems to be the opposite of what you expected
10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife... would actually be ironic.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 01:34:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
First, that only describes one type of irony. Second, it wouldn't be ironic, because it states that you need a knife, not that you expect a knife or have any reason to.
ThegreatandpowerfulR · 16 points · Posted at 02:02:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It only has to be one type of irony, it's not like it also has to be verbal irony or dramatic irony. And of course you would expect a knife and not 10,000 spoons instead.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 02:08:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why would you expect a knife? We don't know what scenario this person is in. Sure, 10000 spoons seems unusual, but maybe they did expect them. It just wasn't what they needed. Maybe they needed to cut some veggies, and they already knew they were going to be receiving a shipment of spoons, but they still needed a knife. We don't know that they had any reason to expect a knife.
Korberos · 0 points · Posted at 17:12:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you're looking for a knife somewhere, then clearly you expect a knife could be there.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 04:14:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Besides, the meaning of words often change because people use them wrong. So the meaning of ironic is somewhat changing. Only recently have people started taking notice of how wrongly people use it. Hell, that song came out almost twenty years ago and we are just now bitching about it.
BubbaTheGoat · 4 points · Posted at 10:32:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, people bitched about it when the song came out, and for pretty much all 20 years since. As /u/MoveMeBrightly88 points out, the fact that none of the examples given are actually ironic does make the song itself ironic.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 13:44:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was probably 9, so can't really be sure, but I don't remember people bitching about it, then again as I said, I was 9. Maybe I'm wrong then.
Korberos · 0 points · Posted at 17:13:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Almost all of them are, though. It's just a bunch of /r/iamverysmart people thinking they know what irony is, and ironically they don't.
Korberos · 0 points · Posted at 17:12:58 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is irrelevant since that line is using irony correctly, even by it's definition at the time the song was released.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know it's being used correctly. That wasn't my point.
G9Lamer · 10 points · Posted at 01:58:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
If i gave you steak and said "I'll be back with silverware" would you expect a spoon? How about 10,000 of them.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 02:24:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes, of course I'd expect a knife rather than spoons after being served a steak, but we don't have any background information so we have no reason to assume that was the scenario. See my reply to the guy below you.
Korberos · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then it's irony, we agree.
If you didn't expect a knife to be somewhere, you wouldn't be looking for it there...
You're reaching and it's obvious.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 18:00:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Who said anything about looking for the knife?
Fr0thBeard · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Did you not know that song was recorded in a knife factory that consistently was returned the wrong product?
aykontakt · 0 points · Posted at 02:13:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's a statement about knife shortage. Irony needs to be ... ironic. Irony is when a shark hunter gets killed by a shark or a when a person claiming that a gun will help protect his family shoots his child. Oxymorons can be irony: religious education, American culture, approximately equal, mortality of the immortal god, acting naturally. Examples of irony from real life: Hitler promoted the idea of the Aryan ubermensch but he wouldn't score high on the ubermenschy scale himself, the unsinkable Titanic sunk on his maiden voyage, people who complain that they are surrounded by assholes are the assholes themselves, people who don't believe in autism or mental illness bare a child with autism or mental illness, those who complain that others don't know what they are talking about are too stupid to know how much they don't know.
Korberos · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
...or a person looking for a knife and somehow finding ten thousand spoons.
You're reaching to say that isn't ironic.
JohnnyBrillcream · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:30 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's like raaaaaaaaaaaaain, on a rainy day.
aykontakt · 2 points · Posted at 02:15:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"It's like rain on your wedding day"
Schitzoflink · 0 points · Posted at 23:22:13 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's like a free ride, when you're already late...that's just poor time management.
Korberos · 6 points · Posted at 23:34:38 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those aren't even the lyrics...
Schitzoflink · 2 points · Posted at 23:38:54 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
What?!
Korberos · 2 points · Posted at 00:00:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The lyrics to the song are "It's like a free ride... when you already paid"
What would being late have to do with being offered a free ride?
Schitzoflink · 0 points · Posted at 00:02:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I dunno, it's been quite awhile since I heard the song...I guess I remembered it like you didn't have a car :)
fletchindubai · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's one long game of knifey-spooney.
Hugh_Jampton · 1 points · Posted at 10:50:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
10,000 spoons is rather a lot. Where is she hanging out? A spoon warehouse or something
mr-death · 1 points · Posted at 01:42:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
My friend told me the other day that I didn't know the meaning of the word irony, which is funny because we were at a train station.
Neighbormike · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
My high school English teacher always had the best explanation for this. Irony is being afraid of crashing on an airplane, and then becoming a pilot. Coincidence is being afraid of crashing on an airplane, and your airplane crashes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:15:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hear about people using it incorrectly so often that I've basically removed it from my vocabulary.
At this point, even if I read the definition right before attempting to use it, I'd still feel doubt as to whether I was using it correctly or not.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:47:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
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hfcobra · 1 points · Posted at 12:00:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's just unlucky.
SpikeNeedle · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:04 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's so ironic.
professorMaDLib · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
futurama refrence?
TotallyTheSysadmin · 1 points · Posted at 12:23:58 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
...how?
professorMaDLib · 1 points · Posted at 12:29:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings.
TotallyTheSysadmin · 1 points · Posted at 13:04:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Except how.
Just because Futurama uses a word in an episode does not mean people are referencing futurama if they use the same word. Explain how exactly it is supposed to be a reference to futurama.
Bobsorules · 0 points · Posted at 01:35:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
My teeth are actually fine thanks
[deleted] · 195 points · Posted at 17:25:52 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ratchet as referring to a wrench.
ILL_Show_Myself_Out · 106 points · Posted at 18:06:23 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
No way. I think you're overestimating the size of the demographic that uses this word.
Liniis · 61 points · Posted at 22:22:04 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally everyone uses it.
LDM123 · 14 points · Posted at 01:56:27 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well that's not awesome.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 03:33:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No no no, it's epic.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Three meta five fast
catccherguy14 · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I see what you did there
RadiantSun · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:27 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, figuratively most of people use it
cookerlv · 0 points · Posted at 04:54:32 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
See the above comment about "literally"
KingGumboot · 1 points · Posted at 03:15:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think you're underestimating it. Also, here at least, the slang term "ratchet" was originally "ratshit", and somehow changed at some point. Probably because we just copy Americans
11181514 · 39 points · Posted at 17:47:27 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Maybe you should get better wrenches if all of yours are ratchet.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 17:48:04 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'ma need a ratchet-ass wrench.
Burritosfordays · 5 points · Posted at 17:57:55 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
So does Ratchet from Ratchet and Clank weild a Wrench or does Ratchet weild a ratchet wrench?
LupinThe8th · 22 points · Posted at 20:03:19 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everyone knows Ratchet is an Autobot.
Stormygeddon · 21 points · Posted at 22:25:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
And has a sidekick named Clank.
guitarkow · 16 points · Posted at 22:34:20 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
That Ratchet is a Lombax.
kjata · 1 points · Posted at 06:31:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shoosh. It's funnier if you imagine the cranky medic.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:41:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Who calls a wrench a ratchet?
ZephyrWarrior · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Someone who knows what a ratchet wrench is? You know those things that look like sticks with the spinny end that make clicking sounds when you turn them? Yeah those are socket ratchet wrenches (mostly just called ratchets).
http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_15662.jpg
When mechanics refer to ratchet wrenches they usually mean combo crescent-ratcheting wrenches (brand name GearWrench).
http://www.gearwrench.com/MagentoShare/media/catalog/product/cache/4/image/1200x1200/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/G/W/GW_9617_FRNT_MAIN_5.jpg
TeutorixAleria · 1 points · Posted at 06:50:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
A ratchet is just the mechanism. Its not exclusive to wrenches. So calling a ratchet wrench a ratchet is just as much of linguistic divergence as using ratchet to mean classless or trashy.
ZephyrWarrior · 1 points · Posted at 06:53:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm aware. It's like calling a motorcycle a bike. A bike is an in-line two wheeled vehicle. The guy I answered seemed to think we were referring to manual crescent wrenches as ratchets.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:18:13 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
A ratchet wrench is a ratchet wrench. I don't understand how this answers the questions. Who calls a ratchet a wrench? That's like asking for a screwdriver and getting a hammer. You went to a lot of effort to demonstrate nothing....I don't get it.
ZephyrWarrior · 1 points · Posted at 11:25:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nobody calls socket ratchet wrenches 'wrenches'. Tons of people call socket ratchet wrenches 'ratchets'. Myself included. It's like working in a body shop and asking for a hammer, you probably want a body hammer and not a sledgehammer. I'm just objectively telling you what the jargon is, I didn't invent it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:37:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
We're not talking about ratchet wrenches.... I said, who calls a ratchet a wrench? Ratchet wrenches are obviously not what I was referring to when I asked the question.
ZephyrWarrior · 1 points · Posted at 11:39:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, initially you said
and I was explaining that he was referring to ratchet wrenches, not crescent wrenches. That's all.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 11:44:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't think he was though. There's nothing in his comment that implies he was talking about a combination wrench/ratchet. I think someone around him actually refers to a crescent wrench as a ratchet. And that is absurd. If he was speaking of a ratcheting wrench then he did a horrible job of conveying the idea...which is why I asked the question in the first place.
Surtrsflame · 2 points · Posted at 22:00:57 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
You mean a gun?
dgrace97 · 3 points · Posted at 22:07:35 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd think it lost its meaning as a slang term almost immediately. I heard for the first time to describe someone as very ghetto and cheap. 4 days later I heard someone describe a cloudy day as ratchet. It lost meaning to me after that.
valeyard89 · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought it was some guy that got stabbed 12 times on a train.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:08:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I only use it to refer to a wrench because, honestly, I have no idea what the fuck it means in that vernacular usage.
Synli · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I always see it as the goblin port in the Barrens
Damn my nerdiness
Beanzii · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
FTFY
Nubcake_Jake · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:27 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think you mean a clank.
aes110 · 0 points · Posted at 19:55:06 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is there any connection between this and Ratchet (from ratchet and clank) using a wrench as his main weapon
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 19:55:55 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm going to assume that is sarcasm.
Zephandrypus · 151 points · Posted at 18:08:51 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Moist" Cake-makers everywhere are at a loss for words to describe their delicious, damp creations.
DrInsano · 117 points · Posted at 19:49:21 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think damp is a worse word than moist. At least with moist that can describe a delicious cake, but damp? Now you're just talking about my ill-ventilated basement.
Zephandrypus · 38 points · Posted at 20:57:50 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, there is literally no other word to describe cake and whipped cream. Next people will be forced to use "dank".
qOJOb · 85 points · Posted at 21:43:20 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can't help but giggle at the thought of "Betty Crocker's Ultra-Dank White Cake Mix" sitting on a super market shelf
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 00:49:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Today, we'll be making a dank cake. First, you add the dry ingredients, as that is easiest first. Now, you add the liquid, Mountain Dew. This adds a caffeinated goodness to it. Of course, we can't forget the crushed Doritos, as they add a beautiful spice. Now we cook at 420 degrees for 35 minutes. After that, it needs decorations. That's where the beams come in. Add the unmelted steel beams on top, then you frost. I have picked a design its dat boi and it just needs words now. Let's do it. Oh... Shit... Waddup. This is a sufficient Dank Cake. I hope you enjoyed it. This has been Gordon Ramsay's cake and WHAT THE FUCK THE STEEL BEAMS MELTED!
DPanther_ · 2 points · Posted at 02:31:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I would think a dank cake should cook at 420 degrees.
Living-by-Choice · 1 points · Posted at 04:24:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You win the thread sir
chokingonlego · 1 points · Posted at 07:12:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
TASTES_LIKE_GAMING
armypantsnflipflops · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Room is spinning...cause of the dankness...
Vigilante17 · 9 points · Posted at 22:10:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Here we go with literally again.
Zephandrypus · 3 points · Posted at 22:37:25 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shit.
I-L-i-k-e-D-a-s-h-es · 2 points · Posted at 00:06:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
we should just start using soggy
TotallyTheSysadmin · 2 points · Posted at 12:27:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
...There's some sort of your mom joke here.
coitusFelcher · 26 points · Posted at 23:26:26 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why does moist gross so many people out? Is it a sexual thing? Cause I've never heard anyone say "oh god...I'm so MOIST right now!" "I'm so wet" is very common, yet no one is weirded out by the word wet.
FuffyKitty · 2 points · Posted at 00:57:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's a smarmy word imo.
kmturg · 2 points · Posted at 23:39:40 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because people at their very core want to be offended by something.
tacojohn48 · 1 points · Posted at 02:40:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://www.google.com/search?q=i%27m+so+moist&espv=2&biw=1229&bih=610&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHqPi7zOLMAhVs4oMKHceVB0kQ_AUIBigB
fletchindubai · -2 points · Posted at 05:25:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sounds a bit creepy.
Like if somebody said, "Can I take you out for a drink?" it would be OK, but if they said, "Can I take you out for a beverage?" you'd have to say no just for the use of that word.
Beanzii · 3 points · Posted at 05:05:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
damp sounds like you fucked the cake up and dropped into a bathtub or a pond
NieOrginalny · 3 points · Posted at 11:20:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You say that to GLaDOS.
Zephandrypus · 1 points · Posted at 11:28:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
GLaDOS isn't a sensitive bitch.
K_cutt08 · 3 points · Posted at 14:17:47 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you go into a store and take a look at Betty Crocker boxed cake mixes, there does not exist a single box without the word moist printed right on the front. It's impossible to buy non-moist cake. I almost want to take it as a challenge to make a dry, shitty cake out of their cake mix without going too far out of my way to ruin it, just to prove a point that they can't always be perfectly moist.
Amoreena23 · 2 points · Posted at 06:40:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dewy?
tworkout · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I blame the moist grannies for this.
nypvtt · 57 points · Posted at 19:45:03 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hero. Everybody seems to be a 'hero' nowadays.
HonkForTheGoose · 21 points · Posted at 00:45:27 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
A hero is just someone who does their job.
Pulse207 · 14 points · Posted at 02:38:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hero tutor teaches after school.
Well, yeah.
ShittyGuitarist · 10 points · Posted at 01:06:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
But they say a hero can save us. I'm not gonna stand here and wait.
rgonzal · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It only takes 4 or 5 moments
Midnight-Mallard · 3 points · Posted at 01:16:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Your not a hero unless you slay a monster.
kjata · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or you promoted from Mercenary.
LLLLLink · 2 points · Posted at 00:26:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
This right here.
cusredpeer · 1 points · Posted at 14:25:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"were all heroes now"
Heebejeeby · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm holding out for a hero
Karinta · 1 points · Posted at 07:04:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
What about "an hero"?
Triquetra4715 · 0 points · Posted at 01:24:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hero Tutor Teaches After School
gimunu · 19 points · Posted at 17:49:30 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Friend
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:28:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
'Like' for that matter. I like to think of them as the watered down combo thanks to Facebook.
NieOrginalny · 1 points · Posted at 11:26:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Polish has two words, both of which would be translated to "friend" in English. "Przyjaciel" who is someone you trust and you are close with, and "Znajomy" who is basically someone you know. The second one is used in contexts of friend lists, and is very much appropriate for it. The first word conserves its value.
Satan2198 · 95 points · Posted at 17:25:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love you
zahrtman2006 · 97 points · Posted at 18:20:02 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love you too Satan
ToxicCricket · 3 points · Posted at 02:17:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I mean, it's a good fabric and all but I wouldn't say I "love" it...
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:31:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love you Santa
wankerpedia · 40 points · Posted at 20:06:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know
thedankbank1021 · 5 points · Posted at 01:59:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The one phrase said too much, and simultaneously not enough.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 17:47:54 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
yeah people sure seem to move on quick after being "in love"
Xiagax · 3 points · Posted at 00:00:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuck off
JohnnyBrillcream · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:29 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ahh, the emotion that can make you both happy and miserable.
thisisntadam · 1 points · Posted at 00:55:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love U2!
ZombieCharltonHeston · 1 points · Posted at 06:45:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://gfycat.com/FirstDirtyGharial
Thepsycoman · 1 points · Posted at 10:09:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Love you too dad
Le_Euphoric_Genius · 62 points · Posted at 18:28:02 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Phobia.
"A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation the affected person will go to great lengths to avoid, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed."
I had a psychology professor with Arachnophobia. She couldn't even think straight if she knew a spider was within 50 feet of her. She acted completely irrational when exposed to her phobia and was prepared to run out of the room if someone purposefully brought a spider into the lecture hall to mess with her.
I go on reddit and apparently like 5% of people have trypophobia, a fear of holes. Pfft, give me a break. Being slightly disturbed by a bunch of holes isn't a phobia unless it very obviously affects your life in a negative. This is one example of the word losing its meaning.
stillness_illness · 22 points · Posted at 00:13:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've tried explaining this to my friend, who has no phobias, that my acrophobia means I really don't want to be anywhere close to an edge of a tall fall. Anxiety, shaky knees, light-headedness, sweaty palms. I don't like it, and I can't even have a focused conversation by any high ledges, the height is too distracting. He doesn't get it and thinks phobias are just a thing you can get over if you try hard enough. Maybe that's true to some degree, but it would take a lot for me to just be chill about being on the edge of a 10 story building.
my gf wanted me to ride acrophbia at six flags. I told her I would hate every second of it. "But you don't know if you don't try it at least once!" Fine... I did it just to prove to her that I hated it. At the end she asked me how I felt about it. I told her I had to fight an anxiety attack the whole time and held my breath and went to my happy place during the fall. I couldn't bear the idea of being that high up... so yeah, I fucking hated it.
jaesin · 5 points · Posted at 04:23:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I only have a mild discomfort at heights and even I won't do those fucking tower drop rides.
Ugh, just no.
xanthalasajache · 2 points · Posted at 08:54:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You should break up with her
RocketCow · 2 points · Posted at 12:08:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
lawyer up hit the gym
StormCrow1771 · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
As someone that isn't afraid of anything I can't relate. Is it like an adrenaline rush? Are there people who develop fetishes revolving around being exposed to their phobias?
It isn't as fun as it sounds, does it?
rewfrew · 14 points · Posted at 21:16:43 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
not to mention that it's being abused at all levels, even by academics as a hammer against peoples opinions. I don't think people should be able to walk across our borders, uninvited and un-vetted and work jobs under the table and without paying taxes - but that makes me a "xenophobe". same with Isalamophobe, homophobe, etc.
samstown23 · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:24 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Uhm... you are aware that those are two different kinds oh phobiae, do you? The one, as in arachnophobia, is a medical condition and the other kind, as in xenophobia, is a political and social issue (although it's kinda getting a real disease, too, lately) ...
agendernerd · 4 points · Posted at 00:43:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
There is also the scientific form that means to repel. Like how oil repels water
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's what he's saying. The actual word is specifically for the medical condition. We've allowed the word to become perverted to take on the political and pejorative meaning. The thread is actually about words that this has happened to. The political meaning of phobia is not the real meaning of the word.
TeutorixAleria · 5 points · Posted at 06:54:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thats not how language works. Paging r/badlinguistics
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 08:33:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You really don't seem to know what this thread is about
TeutorixAleria · 1 points · Posted at 11:13:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No you are the one who is lost.
Phobia hasnt "lost" its meaning of irrational fear. Thats still its primary use in modern English.
The only people who trot out this stupid topic are either anti lgbt or just plain old racist.
Also inb4 Muslim is not a race. That's the inevitable come back to being called racist as if hating a billion people for their religion is somehow ok because it's not hating them for their skin color.
rewfrew · 0 points · Posted at 19:28:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree they are two different things, but the second one is not one that I consider to be real in any way. it's no more than calling someone a racist because they didn't vote for Obama.
shalafi71 · 2 points · Posted at 03:30:07 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I had a gf that was actually arachnophobic and it took me over a year or two to see it. She actively looked for spiders and I thought she was just zoning out. That's real arachnophobia.
Thepsycoman · 2 points · Posted at 10:12:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's interesting because I did have Arachnophobia as a child and slowly grew out of it as I got older. Like by grew out of it I mean, I no longer run screaming I just fucking hate them. (And yes I mean literally hate them. If I could fathom touching them I'd have no problem with inflicting endless torture upon them.)
So now out of habit I'll say I have it, and then just kind of kill the ever living fuck out of the spider which spooked me.
Fr0thBeard · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
True, it does get over-diagnosed. When I see images of those types of unnecessary holes, such as maggots embedded in flesh, or even simple Lotus blooms, there are several reactions. First, even thinking about them makes my skin crawl (Formication) to the extent that it causes pain. My blood pressure fluctuates rapidly, heart rate increases. It's a real, physiological reaction.
Before I knew what this was, I was at work cruising Facebook on my break and I saw a spammed image of a lotus plant photoshopped onto a breast. Somehow, I worked up the courage to search for the image here: NSFW. It was the most terrifying thing I had ever seen, and I absolutely mean that. I'm not scared of snakes, insects, spiders, they just don't bother me as I'm a generally reasonable and fearless person, but this absolutely horrified me. I felt so sick to my stomach (I feel queasy now, I shouldn't have looked that image up) that I had to go home. I was obsessed with the thought for three days, even after finding the snopes article dismissing it as fake. I knew it wasn't real, I knew it couldn't happen, but the very thought of it threw my body into a state I had never felt before.
My point is: real phobias are rarer than most people think, and they are significant. Not liking spiders is very different than your body shutting down when it sees or even thinks it sees a spider.
allothernamestaken · 22 points · Posted at 20:01:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Troll
AtlanteanSteel · 7 points · Posted at 00:23:30 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No one uses this to describe the Jotnar they'll be facing with the other Aesir during Ragnarok anymore.
Now it means a mean-person on the Internet.
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 11:56:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not necessarily mean, it's sometimes even used on someone who has a contrary opinion...or is even right.
LordBrandon · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:04 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
You disgree with me? You are a troll.
boobies23 · 11 points · Posted at 21:48:32 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Tartlets....tartlets....tartlets.
smaudio · 3 points · Posted at 00:16:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why did I have to search so long to find this?
bossfrogs · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:37 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
BEARS OVERBOARD
qwc123 · 2 points · Posted at 08:56:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
GRAB ON TO A SUGAR-O, BEARS.
NoMoMoneyNoMoHoney · 27 points · Posted at 17:37:53 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry
bluepaint22 · 22 points · Posted at 21:30:28 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Still has meaning in Canada
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 01:13:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry, but I think Canada is the place where it's lost all meaning.
Sorry.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:29:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
When Sorry becomes a type of punctuation...
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:58:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
yup, it means "excuse me"
demostravius · 1 points · Posted at 11:32:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Depends where you are from but in the UK that word is all about tone and situation. It can range from genuinely apologetic to 'get the fuck out of my way you ignorant twat'. Depending on the person the variations can be incredibly small to the point they are overlooked.
VeryGreedy · 32 points · Posted at 19:56:49 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Autistic
diaboo · 17 points · Posted at 22:22:00 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I once heard heard a conversation between some guys where one person was complaining about how long it was taking for something to get done by saying that "the administration here is so autistic".
His friend promptly asked him if he had even the slightest clue as to what the definition of the word "autistic" is.
Mirodir · 2 points · Posted at 13:18:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's not so much that they don't know. It's that they don't care.
I use words outside their original meaning often when I'm with good friends and we all know what's happening. I very very rarely use autistic as an insult and we all know that none of us think this person/institution is literally (correct use of "literally", btw) autistic.
bottlerocketz · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
And then everyone started clapping.
Thameus · 1 points · Posted at 01:52:30 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Asperger's
Thepsycoman · 2 points · Posted at 10:14:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
To be fair this can be hard to tell as it is neurological, and if anything our brains are flexible.
Thameus · 1 points · Posted at 10:34:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The joke is that Asperger syndrome has literally been removed as a diagnosable condition.
Thepsycoman · 2 points · Posted at 22:15:05 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Which is a whole new can of worms that makes me want to punch someone.
striver07 · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
How so? I work in special ed and autistic still has a very specific meaning.
VeryGreedy · 3 points · Posted at 03:59:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was downgraded into another word for "stupid"
striver07 · 1 points · Posted at 04:12:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh, well now I feel out of touch.
Thepsycoman · 1 points · Posted at 10:16:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Calling people autistic/aspergic is the new gay. Because now being gay is finally seen to be a fine normal thing they needed something new.
iwantsometea · 1 points · Posted at 09:13:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dont ever look at 4chan
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:14:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It seems as though since 'retarded' is now frowned upon as an insult, people have resorted to saying 'Amah gahd, ur sew autistic'
KyleHooks · 175 points · Posted at 18:17:09 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most extreme words have lost their meaning, or at least their strength.
Here are some words that should be used rarely, but they get overused so they don't matter anymore:
Amazing. Really, does it amaze you?
Gorgeous. Really, is she gorgeous, or just pretty?
Horrible. Really, does it horrify, or is it a slight annoyance?
Unbelievable. Really, you find yourself unable to believe it?
Hate. This is a very strong word, and you probably only dislike what you're talking about.
Starving. I doubt you're starving.
Literally. We all know how often this is misused, and it takes away the meaning when something literally is literally.
Tragic. No, you just cracked your phone screen. It's not a tragedy.
Worst. How many things can be the worst thing ever?
Hitler. Comparing anyone/anything to Hitler should be reserved for people that have caused millions of deaths. Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton is literally Hitler.
Inconceivable. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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KyleHooks · 16 points · Posted at 18:52:18 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pretty much any strong word.
Hate is a verb in the sense I referenced.
Literally is an adverb.
Hitler is a noun.
amrasmin · 18 points · Posted at 20:29:44 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Found the grammar Nazi!
Shnezzberry · 34 points · Posted at 20:38:13 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally Hitler right here
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
ikr I hate him
JoseJimenezAstronaut · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Totally Hitler'd it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:39 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hutler literally hated jews?
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 02:55:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think so.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:15:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/literally
It was changed recently to reflect it's misuse, sadly.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 02:52:58 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
We've lost the war, girls
NewbornMuse · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:16 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah. People shouldn't overexaggerate that often. Simply exaggerating should be enough in most cases.
valeyard89 · 1 points · Posted at 01:54:58 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sounds like hyper-bowel to me.
thatguyfromnewyork · 24 points · Posted at 20:12:53 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
My grandpa was an Irishman who grew up in an incredibly poor situation, kind of got out of it by working his ass off as an adult, and brought his wife and daughters to America. When he was growing up, his father worked three jobs and all 10 of them shared the same room (it was a studio apartment), just for some examples of the poverty.
Anyways, "I'm starving" (in his weird Cork accent that I can't even type out) was his signature phrase when I was growing up. His stomach would always be rumbling, and he'd always say it on repeat until we got him something to eat.
What never occurred to me until recently was that there was almost certainly a time in his life where he was actually starving, and it would go unanswered. This was probably an unconscious way of making sure he got food by annoying the shit out of everyone around him in an endearing way.
someinvisiblehand · 8 points · Posted at 19:04:50 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I totally agree about the Hitler comment in particular. It's really actually quite insensitive to describe other people/situations as such when they did not, in fact, cause millions of deaths. There are so many other comparisons that could be made to get the point across.
Kaneusta · 2 points · Posted at 21:45:26 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I get angry when I see that stupid picture of hurler and trump side by side on why trump is literally hitler
It's always from the same group of people on Facebook who thinks Bernie will solve everything wrong in America as president within a 4 year frame
KyleHooks · 2 points · Posted at 03:03:53 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Very very rarely is there a legitimate reason to compare someone to Hitler
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 12:04:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't you know the concept called "abstraction"? You can even compare apples and oranges (I know there's a figure of speech telling you not to, but ...you know, it's just a figure of speech). Both are fruits, about the same size, about the same form, etc. They are way more similar than either compared to bananas, cherrys, cars, love, air, the universe or us.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 13:49:35 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm familiar with it, yes.
This is not an issue of understanding literary tools. It's a matter of propriety. There are far more appropriate politicians to compare someone to than Hitler, probably one of the most evil humans in all of history.
Unless, of course, that person has committed genocide. It's almost never warranted, and people typically make a comparison as a very cheap, visceral arguing point against someone with whom they disagree. Hitler is essentially the face of evil in modern history, so it's just uncalled for.
Comparing someone who has not committed genocide and started the deadliest war of all time to Hitler is not comparing apples to oranges. It's more like comparing an avocado to a grenade. They're both green, roughly the same size, both have a harder outer shell...except one fucking explodes and kills everything around it...
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 14:36:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
And you just compared the two...
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
And it's ridiculous to compare the two because there are such huge, glaring differences that as a whole, they are not similar despite a couple of superficial similarities.
My comparison was obviously done as an example to show how silly such a comparison is.
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's not if you abstract both and for example compare them for throwing purposes. If both have similar shape and weight and you can throw an avocado over your house, you probably can throw a grenade over your house too.
Or if you pin a ring to an avocado you could say "it looks like a grenade"...which is a comparison and not ridiculous although one fucking explodes and kills everything around it.
[Edit] To even push that example a little further you could also say "look, a grenade" and everyone but a total moron would understand that you don't think you have an actual grenade in your hand but that you see similarities on certain aspects between the object in your hand and an actual grenade (in this case the looks).
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
This argument is getting a little off track and pedantic.
Simply, we all know what kind of reaction we get when we talk about Hitler. Because of that, comparing someone who hasn't attempted genocide to Hitler is a little bit uncalled for.
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Obviously not. I react differently than you and obviously you claim that your way is the only way, which is wrong (as proven by show of example: me).
KyleHooks · 0 points · Posted at 15:48:35 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're aware of the Holocaust, right?
You're aware of the ~60,000,000 dead in WWII, right?
Are you aware that talking about something so extreme, with one man as the face of all that evil, just might elicit some sort of emotional response? Do you think just maybe people might connect any comparison of a person to Hitler as a comparison of that person to evil incarnate? If comparing aspects of Hitler to a person has no direct connection to the Holocaust or the sum of all other abhorrent acts committed for his cause for you, then you are the outlier, and you need to realize that and should adjust your behavior and talking points accordingly.
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:53 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
So you actively agree that you can't abstract?
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:39 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's a borderline r/iamsosmart comment
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 11:55:57 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not the only one thinking this way as all the hitler comparisons OP and you are complaining about are showing. All those people who make those comparisons are able to abstract, you seem not to be able. That's not me being smart, but you lacking a basic human functionality.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 13:37:54 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't insult my intelligence.
You think that because I disagree with you, that means I lack a basic thought pattern. That's where you're wrong. I see both sides just fine, but I think my side is more correct.
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 13:52:22 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
You can't think about aspects of hitler without a direct connection to the Holocaust. That's literally an example for "you can't abstract".
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 14:00:17 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wrong.
I recognize that a very large portion of the population thinks that way, so it's unwise to make comparisons to Hitler when there are more unobjectionable examples one could use.
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 14:04:37 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
So you can think this way and when you accused me of being the outlier, you included yourself to be an outlier too?
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 14:09:59 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
I might be an outlier in that line of thinking, BUT...
Don't forget about the last part of that message you quoted. Realize that and adjust your behavior accordingly.
It is the same concept as why I generally avoid using the word "niggardly". I know what the word means, I know its origin, I know it has nothing to do with the N word, but some people might hear the N word within "niggardly" and instantly put up a wall or get offended. To avoid that issue, I use other words at my disposal like "cheap" or "miserly" when a situation calls for it. Just the same, I typically avoid Hitler comparisons unless the sum of a person is comparable to Hitler.
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 14:19:58 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
I typically avoid Hitler comparisons unless Hitler is the most fitting comparison I know of/I think the other person knows of. Doesn't make comparisons by others wrong.
And regarding this topic: So you have a (in that context) bullshit meaning that people who can't abstract abide to and the smart people that can abstract should stick to that meaning because otherwise the stupid people don't understand them? Don't you think you give the stupid people too much might in this case letting them ruin the language, which is exactly what this thread is complaining about?
kenrose2101 · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:30 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
You two should probably find a room :)
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:42 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
There's a term in basketball for point guards called a KYP. It stands for "know your personnel". A KYP play happens when the point guard makes a pass to somebody he shouldn't pass to. Passes to the guy who can't shoot when he's open, passes it too hard to a teammate who doesn't have good hands, trues an alley oop with a teammate who can't jump high enough, etc. Even though the other player might be the one unable to make the play, it's still considered the point guard's fault because he's responsible for knowing who he's dealing with.
The same goes for language. I don't (purposely) misuse words, but sometimes I try to speak as plainly as possible so whoever I'm talking to will be sure to get what I'm saying. "Niggardly" isn't exactly a common word, and "cheap" gets the same point across and in fewer syllables. Overall it makes more sense to just avoid "niggardly".
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 12:57:07 on May 20, 2016 · (Permalink)
We're still talking about every day communication and not "pro language sports", right?
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 13:13:43 on May 20, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 13:20:48 on May 20, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then your sports argument doesn't make a lot of sense, because I don't compete with anyone and the only thing I lose is a sound language...
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:02 on May 20, 2016 · (Permalink)
The sports analogy makes perfect sense. You're responsible to realize to the best of your ability who the audience listening/reading is.
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 14:16:55 on May 23, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree to that, but while a competitive sports environment states winning conditions, in real life the winning conditions aren't set. So I can either set out to make myself as understandable by as many people as possibe or I could make myself understandable to a certain amount of people while at the same time teaching those who don't understand me a lesson.
Your life goal dumbs down humanity, mine doesn't.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:10:25 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
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KyleHooks · 2 points · Posted at 02:54:58 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Upvotes accepted :)
Xiagax · 2 points · Posted at 00:01:47 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
INCONTHEIVEABLE!!
SergeantSkull · 2 points · Posted at 00:53:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"No more rhyming I mean it " "any body want a peanut?"
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
This guy quotes
SergeantSkull · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lol
Mysticpoisen · 4 points · Posted at 22:15:01 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
You seem to have more of an issue with basic human psychology than any actual word.
KyleHooks · 2 points · Posted at 02:57:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Huge exaggerations, used excessively, yes. I have a problem with those.
When so many things are described to a heightened level, it brings down the strength of the descriptions of things that actually deserve the use of such words.
pizza-yolo · 2 points · Posted at 00:36:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Someone is not familiar with figures of speech.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 02:54:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most of those are not figures of speech. They're just gross exaggerations.
Tylray · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:38 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I see that Princess Bride reference. You sly dog.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:45 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
;)
kmturg · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:30 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I use travesty instead of tragedy. Because honestly, unless you are talking about someone dying from exposure in the woods, it's probably not a tragedy. But everyone's over reaction to getting a cracked screen on their phones is a travesty.
weaksaucedude · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:11 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hot vs Beautiful
Literally vs Figuratively
ThatKennedy · 1 points · Posted at 01:13:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I may not be starving, but I'm certainly a Starvin' Marvin.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's fair, Marvin.
Triquetra4715 · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
When a trend gets that big maybe you shooed just consider that humans tend to exaggerate.
BarneyIStinson · 1 points · Posted at 02:22:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You must be fun at parties.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 02:52:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lots of fun :)
Pm_me_steam-codes · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:53 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Funny, i read inconceivable in that voice, then read the last part, literally unbelievable that we both had the same amazingly gorgeous idea
Ezl · 1 points · Posted at 04:34:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 14:11:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
More than words is all you have to do to make it real
roguespectre67 · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:27 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agreed with everything, but I lost it at "inconceivable"
fletchindubai · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
But where does that leave the great English language tradition of hyperbole?
Hyperbole has it's place - especially when used for comic effect.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 14:09:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hyperbole definitely has its place. I think we agree on that. I just want people to chill a little bit and have a little discretion with their hyperbole.
Hyperbole is like a Little Debbie snack. It's delicious, but it probably shouldn't be your main course for most of your meals.
meneldal2 · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
For now, they both have the potential to cause the deaths of many people. Bankrupting the country and taking it out on Mexicans could very well go into the "literally Hitler" territory.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 14:08:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure the leader of most countries has the potential to cause lots and lots of deaths and bankrupt their country.
We also have lots of checks and balances in the US government, so unlike a dictatorship, even if we had a president with Hitler's personality and intentions, it's unlikely much of it would be happen.
meneldal2 · 1 points · Posted at 01:14:54 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's true it would be impossible to directly genocide people but if the country defaults, how many lives will be lost in the ensuing chaos?
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:58 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Unwise policy decisions don't compare to purposeful murder. I doubt Trump would be SO bad that we default, have a collapse worse than the Great Deoression, and spiral into a third-world country.
meneldal2 · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:09 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hope it doesn't end up like this. However, looking at the polls I'm afraid.
Keltin · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:35 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Amazing
Horrible
Unbelievable
Hate
Worst
Inconceivable
All examples over a century old of hyperbole. I couldn't find a mention outside of tragedies in the theatrical sense in a quick search, nor could I find an example of starving used as hyperbole, but I didn't look very hard. Gorgeous, being entirely subjective, I omitted entirely.
However, many of the words you mentioned have actually decreased in use over the last few decades, though admittedly this data only goes to 2008 at the latest, so very recent uses won't show up. Either way, my point stands: using these words as hyperbole is nothing remotely new.
Not to mention, languages change over time. We don't speak the way Chaucer would have, or even Shakespeare. It would honestly be linguistically weird if we did, if the language hadn't changed in all that time.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 14:03:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know language changes over time. We all know that.
However, when the strongest words we have are so often used to describe things that are fairly bland comparatively, it takes the kick out of those words.
batsy_of_gotham · 1 points · Posted at 06:41:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You sound..... depressed.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 14:03:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not. I'm a pretty happy dude.
Thepsycoman · 1 points · Posted at 10:04:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You kind of did it yourself then... Like of course no one is literally Hitler but Hitler. I think the problem with that is about the use of literally not about Hitler. From what I can tell if Trump got the type of power Hitler had, he would have no problem with using it in a similar way to maintain power. Hell he already has the Mexicans as his scapegoats for his campaign, they are just Jews 2.0.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 14:01:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
When someone says someone else is "literally Hitler", it's an issue with both words. Even if they just make a comparison to Hitler without the use of "literally", it's still way off base.
Trump, asshole that he may be, is no Hitler. What he has talked about doing to illegal Mexican immigrants is simply to send them back to the country they actually belong to, and to take steps to prevent illegal immigration. So many people keep blowing his intentions out of proportion. Is there anything wrong with wanting to prevent illegal immigration? No. We have borders for a reason. That doesn't compare to attempted extermination. A citizen of Mexico, legally a Mexican, with no visa to work in, live in, or reside in the US, belongs in...Mexico. The same applies to any person of any country in the entire world.
Jofarin · 1 points · Posted at 11:59:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
...don't you see it?
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 13:50:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No mustache...can't be Hitler.
Ham_B0n3 · 1 points · Posted at 13:24:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank you for stating hate...it is a powerful word.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 13:41:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Supposed to be, anyway.
I remember once when I was probably 9 or so, my mom asked me if I wanted to hang out with this kid that lived down the street and I said "no" because, "I loath him."
I still feel bad to this day because it was such an unfair way to describe my feelings toward him when, in reality, I was just upset over some playground tiff and he was actually my friend.
Ham_B0n3 · 1 points · Posted at 13:56:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Haha that was like me with the word livid. I thought it meant mildly upset. Couldn't be more wrong. Told parents I was livid with my brother. They were very concerned as we both got along well as kids. It's fun to learn!
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 14:13:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm glad I learned, too.
I like the "Constant and never-ending improvement" approach to learning. I'm not good at it, but I'm trying.
IronedSandwich · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
well memed at the end there, 10.3/10
JayWelsh · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:37 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
What are you implying people think it means?
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's a reference from The Princess Bride
CorvoKaldwin · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is amazingly horrible. It is literally unbelievable. I is the worst, worse than Hitler. It is tragic that this list exists, I hate it. Inconceivable!
NewAndExistingUser · 0 points · Posted at 21:53:39 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're hilarious
KyleHooks · 0 points · Posted at 02:58:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I wish :/
drodemi · -1 points · Posted at 18:31:51 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
If someone has his 'stache, they're gonna get called Hitler. If someone wants to enact similar policies, they're gonna get called Hitler. There's lots of valid reasons to compare someone to Hitler, even if they haven't yet committed genocide. There's a lot more to the Nazis than just the Holocaust.
KyleHooks · 3 points · Posted at 18:40:01 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Any Hitler argument is invalid unless there's genocide involved. There are lots of rulers, presidents, dictators, etc, that have enacted or wanted to enact certain policies that are similar to some of what Hitler got going in Germany.
However, the name Hitler resonates in such a visceral way because of the Holocaust, because of starting the deadliest war of all time, because of the amount of terribly inhumane experiments performed on people.
Most people are pretty aware of his total body of reprehensible work, and any one policy is inseparable from the whole thing. Anyone who compares someone not responsible for a genocide to Hitler is knowingly arguing with the hopes of eliciting an unfair emotional response. That's a cheap way to argue anything.
There are not lots of valid reasons to compare someone to Hitler. There are very, very few valid reasons. You can compare Stalin and Mao to Hitler, but very few other people with any validity.
Seshia · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:22 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
If someone is saying we should put armbands on Jews and ship them to labor camps, I'm gonna compare them to hitler even if they haven't killed millions. Sorry.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
And who's doing that?
And even if someone is suggesting that, that by itself doesn't compare to the total amount of terrible Hitler is responsible for.
If someone is doing that, then it would make sense to compare those particular acts, but not the people as a whole.
drodemi · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:03 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most people are aware of the existence of a man named Adolf Hitler, and most of them agree he was pretty shitty, but in my experience, most people really don't know much more than that. An entirely significant number of people can't differentiate a manji from a swastika.
I think it's just silly you're trying to say people can't reference Hitler without it being solely an emotionally manipulative tactic, especially in a world where so many people are ignorant about the facts, or even fabricating history to fit their world view(Holocaust deniers).
I mean yes I agree that insinuating your opponent is literally Hitler is a weak and emotionally manipulative strategy, but there's a whole lot to talk about concerning the man, the nation, and the war. Telling me I can only reference other nations or leaders with similar agendas is dumb.
PM_ME_PIZZA_PLS · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's astonishing to me how many people don't know the tragedy of what world war 2 was, my dad at work asked a 20 year old something about world war 2 and the person said "what's that?" ... I have met many people who don't know what world war 2 was, and if they do they just think it was some war and that's all, its sad really.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not saying you can't. I'm saying you shouldn't except in rare instances.
Minigolfarn · 24 points · Posted at 18:29:54 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Newbie or noob. Now only used by ragers to bash each other.
CheesyHotDogPuff · 10 points · Posted at 02:05:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
There is a difference between newbie and noob though. Newbie is someone new to the game. Noob is an insult, eg "omg noob team no vision report pls". I've never seen a rager actually use newbie, probably because it takes too long to type.
EdgyAltAccount · 7 points · Posted at 03:28:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I haven't heard anyone say the word "noob" in like 2 years.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:13:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You probably haven't played CoD then.
EdgyAltAccount · 1 points · Posted at 14:32:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is that a bad thing?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No but if you have never heard anyone saying it in the past 2 years, I was just saying you probably haven't played cod in that time either. The community is toxic.
Nuggetsgaloreamirite · 139 points · Posted at 17:54:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gender
ColonelSanders_1930 · 94 points · Posted at 18:05:16 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
TRIGGERED
su5 · 74 points · Posted at 18:21:50 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
That one too.
MegaGuy28 · 32 points · Posted at 21:18:04 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
TOGGLED?
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 21:49:48 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
SELECTED.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 22:37:57 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Gender toggle"
Triquetra4715 · 2 points · Posted at 01:18:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Subscrobbled?
batsy_of_gotham · 1 points · Posted at 06:42:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Toggle implies a male image.
Thepsycoman · -1 points · Posted at 10:08:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"I identify as female" "Okay cool, but you were born with a dick, and your chromosomes are one X and one Y. Hate to tell you but some surgery and your opinion don't really matter against that cold hard fact."
EdgyAltAccount · -26 points · Posted at 18:14:22 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Woah that's edgier than ME.
To an extent I agree, though.
How to tell your gender:
If you have a penis you're a male. If you have a vagina you're a female.
If you have a penis, unless you pay to have a sex change, you're not a female. If you're vagina, unless you pay to have a sex change, you're not a male.
Unless you don't have genitals, you are either male or female.
Genderqueer is not a thing and should not be a thing.
BrandonMarlowe · 8 points · Posted at 23:18:42 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
That is how tell your sex. Not clear why you are so up in arms about the label "gender" being used for roles and behaviors considered appropriate for each sex. I mean, that is really all this drama is about.
someinvisiblehand · 10 points · Posted at 19:09:02 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, no. Your sex = biological parts. Your gender = how you identify (ie- If my sex is female and I identify as male, my gender is male).
"And according to the World Health Organization, "Sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women."
Agastopia · 12 points · Posted at 18:23:57 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why do you care so much about what other people call themselves? It literally doesn't effect you at all... Reddit loves to call out people who are against gay marriage but transgendered people existing literally effects you just as much as gay marriage being legal.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:41:11 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
This is as much a response to /u/wojack77, fwiw. I think that the majority of people that take the position /u/EdgyAltAccount did do so for the sake of simplicity.
You might be a man in a man's body, a man in a woman's body, or someone who sometimes feels like a man, sometimes like a woman, but in a man's body. (Same if you replace "woman" for "man.")
Then there's the person that claims to be a table in a woman's body. Or a werewolf. Or a molecule of water trapped in a man's body. Yeah, real special snowflakes there. But who am I to say that they really aren't what they claim? Got to keep the tablecloth on the first one, keep chickens away from the second, and the third is afraid of table salt.
At some point, I think most people will say enough is enough.
Edit: Thanks to /u/Agastopia for linking this article, which shows some of the science behind transsexuality. I link it here, too: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20032-transsexual-differences-caught-on-brain-scan/ .
(And yes, I know that some people really believe that they are trapped in an incorrectly-gendered body. They can't afford surgery. The psych visits prior to surgery or hormones are too difficult. Whatever the reason, even though they would love to transition, they can't. I'm not trying to judge at all here, just explaining why a lot of people think that gender should be assigned based upon genitalia.)
Agastopia · 6 points · Posted at 18:49:01 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's the same exact argument the religious right used though. "If we make men allowed to marry men, next is men to animals!" It's just a slippery slope argument, since, last time I checked there haven't been any dog to man marriages yet.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:14 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I think it is and it isn't.
I think there's a difference in that men marrying men is something visible and quantifiable. But if I claim that I'm a woman trapped in a man's body, or you claim that you're a wolverine trapped in a woman's body, who can dispute that? In either case, we would both want our identities respected, as ludicrous as they might seem to others.
(This isn't to say that there aren't medical tests that can detect these identities. I am not aware of them--it's really not my area at all--but MRIs, hormone levels, or something else might actually demonstrate detectable differences between men in men's bodies and women in men's bodies. But like I said, I don't know of them.)
Edit: Thanks to /u/Agastopia for linking this article, which shows some of the science behind transsexuality. I link it here, too: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20032-transsexual-differences-caught-on-brain-scan/ .
Agastopia · 6 points · Posted at 19:09:32 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Studies have shown that the brain structure of transgendered people are closer to their identity than their sex.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20032-transsexual-differences-caught-on-brain-scan/
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 19:21:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thanks for this! This is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about, and I'm glad Reddit delivered.
Now I just have mixed feelings: I would love to see this more widely disseminated so that the people that hate/are disgusted by/don't understand transsexuals can inch closer to realizing that they are just people like everyone else, but am afraid that at some point some politician will ask for brain scans to be allowed to enter certain restrooms...
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 19:05:55 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't get this either.
Notwithstanding the reductio ad absurdum aspect of turning a fairly straightforward gender issue into crazy hyperbole like "a molecule of water trapped in a man," who cares if someone actually does want to identify as a werewolf or a drop of water or whatever ridiculous hyperbole you want to throw out there?
I really don't understand why that would ever bother anyone. It has absolutely zero effect on you, and if it makes them happy, why the hell not?
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 19:16:13 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Frankly, it doesn't bother me a bit. But...
People are already up in arms about HB2 and the controversy in NC. I suspect that a lot of it is that more conservative people are sick of being told that they have to cater to every person's vision of what they are.
Further, I don't think that it is a "straightforward" issue at all. Whereas there's plenty of biological evidence supporting homosexuality being something a person just is, rather than what they choose to be, I'm not aware of any such evidence for transsexuality. (Although, to be fair, I admit that I could be very wrong on this.) Without any sort of evidence for it, or explanation of why certain individuals are transsexual, I think there's bound to be a backlash against people asking for exceptions to established societal norms.
And yeah, I grant that a planet trapped in a man's body might be reductio ad absurdum. But to a lot of people, there's absolutely no difference between that and someone who has all the male bits but claims to actually be a female trapped in that body. Without the science to explain it (and again, I know I'm not as informed as some on this topic), a large swath of the population will see the two as the same kind of claims.
Edit: Thanks to /u/Agastopia for linking this article, which shows some of the science behind transsexuality. I link it here, too: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20032-transsexual-differences-caught-on-brain-scan/ .
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:31 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know. I suppose I can see where you're coming from, but I personally just don't understand how anyone would care outside of just a childish "eww that's weird" reaction to someone different from them. In my book "eww that's weird" isn't grounds for being intolerant of someone's actions that don't affect anyone at all in any way whatsoever.
There has never been a case of a transexual using their gender to sneak into a bathroom and doing something inappropriate. If there was I'm sure conservatives would be all over it. From what I gather that's what the proponents of the bill claim to be up in arms about, so I find the HB2 thing to be completely stupid.
As far as the science aspect of it, again, who cares. Getting tangible neurological evidence of any mental condition isn't an exact science. There's still people who say there's no evidence for depression or BPD, but we still acknowledge them. Also, there is some evidence to support gender dysmorphia. You can check out a Scientific American article on it here. They're a pretty unbiased source.
How2Try · 0 points · Posted at 11:37:24 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not when someone demands you recognize their subjective take on gender/sex which is different from your own. If I don't recognize a transgender as the sex they would want me to indentify then as that's too bad, there shouldn't be a obligation to force opinions down people's throats...
...whether or not I believe I have a moral obligation to treat/call this person as the gender they identify to is a whole other question, but I didn't come here to debate morals, just facts...
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 18:20:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why do you care though? If someone wants to identify as another gender because it makes them feel better about themselves, why not be fine with it. Who gives a shit? It's not like it has any effect on your life in any way what so ever.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:39 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why do you care about his opinion? If someone wants to believe something because they choose to, why not be fine with it. Who gives a shit? It's not like it has any effect on your life in any way what so ever.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:46:10 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was asking why he cared out of curiosity, because I really just don't understand that mentality. If it's not affecting anyone in a negative way why not just live and let live?
Also, while it doesn't have an effect on me personally, opinions like his are behind actual laws that do have a tangible adverse effect on other people's lives. It crosses the line into more than "just an opinion" if it starts affecting legislation.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 23:20:13 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was asking why you cared out of curiosity, because I really just don't understand that mentality. If it's not affecting anyone in a negative way why not just live and let live?
Also, while it doesn't have an affect on me personally, opinions like yours don't matter, nor do mine. Like you said, live and let live.
And what law says you can't personally believe you're a wolf or dog or whatever. No one's stopping you and I'm pretty sure police aren't knocking on your door when you howl too lowdly like a weirdo.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:41:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cute, but it is affecting other people in a negative way in the form of those laws we're talking about. A trans person identifying themselves as trans has zero tangible impact on anyone else.
We were talking about the actual nc law that has a direct impact on people's lives, not ones in the fantasy hyperbole land of strawmen where people think they're otters and want special otter rights.
EdgyAltAccount · 1 points · Posted at 03:30:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Let me just leave this here.
https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/otterkin
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 03:47:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Right... Because a few people on tumblr is exactly like govenment enacted legislation.
I also missed the part where there was anyone identifying as anything here.. Just some pictures of otters. I'll admit that was funny though.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:05:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
We're talking about the people who believe they're animals, you're not. You're arguing with me about something that I am not even talking about. Your rage is blinding you of what I'm even saying.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, we're not talking about that idiotic animal strawman you keep mentioning.
This is the comment I was initially responding to and that's all I've been talking about. Your fixation on this stupid animal hyperbole is blinding you to the entire conversation.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 00:59:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
So what you are saying is stuff like racism and sexism is ok because it is only an opinion? It doesn't effect your life in anyway so whatever.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:10:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wow, nice way to assume that guy is a white male.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 10:41:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry that you have to hide behind a throwaway to say anything.
I wasn't assuming anything, you can be any race and any gender and still be sexist and racist.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:06:39 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
As if you would recognize him irl if he didn't use and alt account
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:44:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Which is exactly why he should not have bothered using one.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:09:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you haven't noticed, I repeated what the person before me basically said. And in a way, racism and sexism is ok because it is only an opinion. If they personally believe that, that sucks but as long as they don't take action on it, no one would possibly even know what they're thinking.
EdgyAltAccount · -1 points · Posted at 19:37:28 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Because they want ME and other people to call them whatever, no matter how stupid it is.
See "Xe Xem Xyr" and "Otherkin"
EVERYTHING FOLLOWING THIS IS DIRECTED AT "SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES" IN GENERAL
You're not a fucking wolf. I'm not going to call you one.
If I can easily tell what you have in your pants by your defining features I will call you by that pronoun, whether you agree with it or not. Then you go and get triggered when I don't use the "right" one.
You're not special, stop trying to find ways to be unique. You come off as cringy and annoying.
You're a vocal minority. You all have rights based on the 2 binary genders. Use those and stop complaining.
/rant
Edit: I wonder how many people have me RES tagged as a transphobe now.
Peechez · 5 points · Posted at 02:00:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm gonna throw out a wild guess here.
~16 years old, white, still in school, spend most of your time on the computer
EdgyAltAccount · -1 points · Posted at 03:23:25 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
^ Username should describe me perfectly.
Also post history.
Peechez · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
sick bait
EdgyAltAccount · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:35 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Master Bait
I've got karma to lose, so let the triggering begin.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 19:41:33 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Funny. I live in nyc, which is a bastion for your so called "special snowflakes," yet I have never been forced to call anyone anything, nor have I ever been shamed for calling someone the wrong pronoun.
The whole idea of some otherkin going around yelling at people for not acknowledging them as an otter or beetle or whatever is such a ridiculous strawman yet it's used all the time.
LRedditor15 · -2 points · Posted at 23:15:58 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ah, the good old "I've never encountered this before, therefore it doesn't exist".
Derpsauce1337 · 2 points · Posted at 00:18:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lol holy shit you're so angry about what others do
Will it REALLY hurt you if other people call themselves something?
ArtSchnurple · 2 points · Posted at 19:31:38 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wow, look out folks, we got an expert here
StormCrow1771 · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
...the sad part is that this seems supportive and not transphobic compared to everything else on this fucking website.
tatterdemalion420 · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shit, it's the gender police! Everyone just act cool and try not to draw their attention by deviating from social norms.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 22:37:06 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
XY and XX. A wolf literally isn't a gender, it's an animal, they have only male and female wolves too for fucks sake
LRedditor15 · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:48 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
How fucking dare you push our disgusting gender norms on such beautiful animals. /s
BrandonMarlowe · 0 points · Posted at 23:12:52 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
And X0, XXY, XXYY, XYY and mosaicism of any of the aforementioned.
Er_Hast_Mich · -6 points · Posted at 20:08:13 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
How dare you use scientific facts that don't jibe with muh feels! MUH FEEEEEEEELS!!
Triquetra4715 · -4 points · Posted at 01:17:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good. It was a shitty idea in the first place.
freshprince9200 · 10 points · Posted at 02:45:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think it helped propagate our species for a very long time and even today. I don't think it was a bad idea or consequence of our culture.
YoungBandoBoyyy · 8 points · Posted at 19:26:17 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Terrorist.
CrossCheckPanda · 31 points · Posted at 17:37:51 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trigger
Agastopia · 13 points · Posted at 18:21:50 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yup, which is mostly due to Reddit's obsession with tumblr and calling this world out specifically despite it being legitimately a useful word in some cases. Tumblr went a little overboard, but trigger warnings aren't inherently a bad thing.
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 23:00:14 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
It gets used ironically on Reddit a lot more than by overly sensitive people on Tumblr.
Classic case of Reddit overreacting.
shoganaiyo · 7 points · Posted at 23:45:00 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
A trigger is a very real thing and is often linked with trauma. Its not something you can control and can be socially debilitating. Where it got misused is when people started using it as a term for anything that gets them upset
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 09:56:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or when people fake PSTD for attention and crave trigger warnings on anything vaguely negative. It just detracts from the people that actually need to be warned of traumatic content.
ArtSchnurple · -10 points · Posted at 19:37:31 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trigger warnings are literal warnings to people who have been raped or abused and have PTSD because of it, because hearing an account of something similar to what they've been through can trigger PTSD, the same way a combat veteran can have a flashback to trauma suffered in combat. Reddit is literally making fun of rape and abuse victims when they make this "joke."
Of course someone always says that "tumblrinas" have abused the word by using it wrong... which of course is bullshit. I've never even seen the mythical purple-haired Tumblr feminazi say "TRIGGERED," and neither have any of you. It's just part of the strawman version of feminism reddit loves to rail against.
darksilverhawk · 5 points · Posted at 20:14:47 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I, unfortunately, have seen people inappropriately using the word first-hand in such contexts, right down to the i sud enly cannno t type corect ly "panic attack" that follows them getting called out on it. Trolling or not, it's a genuine problem on tumblr. One of the communities I'm in has a huge problem with an entire group of people getting "triggered" (yes, they use that word) over people posting images of holes every six months.
ArtSchnurple · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:28 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
If they're saying it like that, they're obviously saying it in the same lame "joke" way that redditors do.
darksilverhawk · 3 points · Posted at 20:35:14 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're either hard core trolls or actually think they're using it correctly; they've witch hunted people off the site for not respecting it. They're pretty much the worst element of tumblr, but they absolutely do not use it in the same "joking way" redditors do. It sounds really silly but when you see the tumblr machine in action, particularly when younger people are involved, it's a terrifying thing. Some of them really do believe what they're saying.
ArtSchnurple · 0 points · Posted at 20:42:04 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Young people misusing words, it definitely sounds terrifying.
ShrikeGFX · 0 points · Posted at 23:14:28 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I think majority of humanity hasent even known that trigger warnings are a thing before tumblr feminazis sprayed it all across the internet for the slightest thing. People were always screenshotting their comments and Ive seen tons of them and many people did. How else would this have formed ? Out of thin air ?
ArtSchnurple · 2 points · Posted at 23:40:30 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reddit is not the "majority of humanity," it's a bunch of entitled young white dudes with a chip on their shoulder. And out of thin air? Yeah, basically. Have you SEEN /r/tumblrinaction? It's a bunch of bullshit and obvious trolling. It couldn't be more obvious that most of it is fakes by teen chanlords who think they're rebellious freethinkers for sticking it to those awful PC SJW feminazis on tumblr.
ShrikeGFX · 1 points · Posted at 10:24:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
r/rtumblerinaction is bullshit and obvious trolling ? So you Really think all those people there make that stuff up ? All those people just perfectly photoshop this and put it online ? Because that would be very sad if you were so delusional.
Agastopia · -1 points · Posted at 19:38:01 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know
ArtSchnurple · 0 points · Posted at 19:42:20 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know you know (or I assumed you know), I was just elaborating for the sake of the group.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 03:43:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Honestly... nobody gives a fuck about what triggers you. Bad shit happened to you and fucked you up. That sucks and we all feel a little bad for you. But if you think people are actually going to change what they do or walk on eggshells for you it isn't going to happen.
Please watch the following instructional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y
ColonelSanders_1930 · -8 points · Posted at 18:04:30 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
TRIGGERED
Living-by-Choice · 1 points · Posted at 04:38:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
So yea I think if people stop expecting to be catered to we could probably stop mocking it. What's next we have to sit when anyone in a wheel chair rolls by? Less they get triggered? Flash backs to Nam, Charlie's in the trees clapping over holes invading my safe space and threatening my opinions!
Dinklenerd · 7 points · Posted at 22:03:37 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lol.
How often do you "laugh out loud" when you text it?
Mensabender · 4 points · Posted at 00:34:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Probably less than 1%, but not 0%.
tacojohn48 · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I used to send instant messages back and forth with the person in the cubical next to me and she'd type "LOL" and I'd be like no you didn't.
Living-by-Choice · 1 points · Posted at 04:46:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
AOL's fault it was all to shave that one letter off of "haha" well really alls we ever meant was I find this mildly amusing but now we've made it long again : Reddit :D
Aplayer12345 · 1 points · Posted at 09:05:45 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm guilty of this. Sometimes I put it at the end of a sentence for seemingly no reason.
BlaiddSiocled · 1 points · Posted at 09:53:35 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd guess that one arose to avoid awkward silence in response to a joke.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 00:16:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
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papashuga · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:25 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, there's "organic," and then there's "beyond organic."
PM_ME_UR_WEIRD_HOBBY · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:37 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Personally, I prefer all of my food to be carbohydrate-based substances.
saint-x · 92 points · Posted at 19:06:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Racist!" - used often by thin-skinned individuals who can't come up with a reasonable counter arguement and resorts to shaming the other party into moving the discussion and to force them in explaining why they aren't racists.
rewfrew · 28 points · Posted at 21:19:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
this ranks in there with all the *phobe accusations as well. they're distractions. a hammer to beat those who disagree.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 22:57:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
ad hominem
TokesMcSmokes · 7 points · Posted at 23:35:49 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
went looking for this comment. I don't care anymore about being called racist because it is used so often as a substitute for an argument.
somedude456 · 1 points · Posted at 01:57:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Defined: "a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another."
So simply saying a rapper is trashy doesn't make me racist. Trump not wanting Muslims to immigrate to the US...not racist. The police doing their job and they happen to arrest someone who is black...again not racist.
Enigma343 · 1 points · Posted at 09:51:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Anti-Semitism is often an accusation levied at any critique of Israel, regardless of how justified.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 01:36:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Racist
Jaxx_Teller · 69 points · Posted at 19:12:30 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Misogynist, racist, sexist, xenophobic, bigot.
Er_Hast_Mich · 25 points · Posted at 20:09:25 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
God that is so misogynist, racist, sexist, and xenophobic of you, you bigot!
EvilCheesecake · -4 points · Posted at 00:59:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"If I just insist that everyone is oversensitive, I can get away with never having to consider whether I might actually be part of the problem! It's so easy!"
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 09:54:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"If I just ignore the point that the other side is making and instead try to scare them into submission by taking the moral high ground, I won't actually have to do anything to fix problems apart from argue on the internet!"
See, strawmanning is easy.
freshprince9200 · 2 points · Posted at 02:49:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's not that I don't see myself as removed from the problem, but I just don't care. It's hard for me to change my behavior in every way to cow tow to every minorities' insecurities. I just try to be a decent person and get on with my life.
EvilCheesecake · -4 points · Posted at 03:44:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
So you try to convince yourself that you're being a decent person, in the same breath that you say that you find it too difficult to listen to what people need you to do in order to claim to be a good person?
freshprince9200 · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm saying trying to make everyone feel good is a fool's errand. It's an impossible task.
SomeDanGuy · 9 points · Posted at 23:24:43 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nimrod. Used to be a compliment in reference to the most famous hunter in the bible until Bugs Bunny used it mockingly
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:19:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
We all know that, you nimrod.
Jaws76 · 5 points · Posted at 21:41:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
-Hero -Victim -Minority
cptw00zie · 14 points · Posted at 17:32:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
hilarious
relevant
prophetblue · 17 points · Posted at 17:58:55 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Without clicking the link, I'm going to assume that's Louis CK's stand up bit about misusing words
siyl1979 · 15 points · Posted at 18:01:59 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're right.
Source: didn't click the link either.
ArtSchnurple · 15 points · Posted at 19:33:02 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Joke's on you guys. The rest of us are now grooving to the sweet melodies and dulcet tones of Rick Astley.
prophetblue · 4 points · Posted at 18:08:12 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oooh, hot damn.
cptw00zie · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:34 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
an upvote well deserved, my good sir
prophetblue · 2 points · Posted at 18:07:59 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
And one for you, sir, because you made me feel like I matter
LotsOfCrack · 10 points · Posted at 17:51:33 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dank
jlisle · 1 points · Posted at 02:33:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dank is one of those words that has started to mean the opposite of itself, and is thus a very fitting answer. Compare the dictionary definition with the Urban Dictionary definition: disagreeably damp, musty and typically cold vs something of high quality. If somebody were to be described as a "dank cunt," for example, I'm not sure I could parse out the actual meaning.
sangbum60090 · 20 points · Posted at 18:00:50 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cuck
ilikehockeyandguitar · 14 points · Posted at 18:04:17 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
old.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:45:13 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Back when my soul was a young one, the word "slut" was used to refer to a messy woman.
OgeeDee024 · 2 points · Posted at 00:47:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's actually a thing, i heard some Youtubers talking about it
LordBrandon · 1 points · Posted at 03:07:17 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hmm, never knew that.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 19:04:17 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Freedom
Living-by-Choice · 2 points · Posted at 04:43:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It ain't worth nothing unless it's free
Iancredible56 · 4 points · Posted at 00:43:05 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cringe
LordBrandon · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:37 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Creepy, too.
Markinator98 · 13 points · Posted at 18:51:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Opressed
amaggi3 · 7 points · Posted at 17:29:40 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I promise...
XseCrystal · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:16 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just to add to this: Vow
Juuberi · 7 points · Posted at 18:40:55 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fetish/Phobia
gmlubetech · 18 points · Posted at 21:18:19 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rape. The hugely misleading inaccurate surveys that claim 1 in 4 college women have been raped have done this word no favors. Some of these studies even go so far as to label "attempted forced kissing" as rape. Rape is a horrific crime and labelling almost any bad encounter with a male rape completely downplays the horrors that actual victims of rape experienced.
blunket · 5 points · Posted at 05:02:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That number for that particular college study is 1 in 4 women have been "sexually assaulted." Rape is a type of sexual assault, and yes, attempted forced kissing is also a type of sexual assault. People just don't know what words mean and think rape and sexual assault are synonymous and misquoted the stats all over the internet. (-_-)
foozerluck · 6 points · Posted at 17:52:09 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cloud
Uncle_Cheech · 5 points · Posted at 17:54:17 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Legit
Nexaz · 6 points · Posted at 18:11:05 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Special or Unique.
When everybody and everything is trying to be Special or Unique nothing is special or unique.
RememberSammyWho · 1 points · Posted at 10:18:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
When everyone's super... no one will be super
timpai · 1 points · Posted at 01:35:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree, but these two examples are quite different. "Unique" used to mean that there was one and only one instance of something. That meaning is being lost, and instead we are using "unique" to mean special or unusual. So we're losing the original meaningof "unique" as it goes to join the ranks of all the other words that mean unusual or special, and we have no word left that actually means "unique".
Blgosu · 7 points · Posted at 18:40:12 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Third world countries
Daggertrout · 1 points · Posted at 00:58:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like Switzerland?
Ramrod312 · 11 points · Posted at 17:52:07 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Privilege
Captain_Bu11shit · 3 points · Posted at 18:27:11 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gay
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:32 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gaytime
Not everywhere.
Wolfy_Jaeger · 3 points · Posted at 23:05:31 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Dude". Most people don't know it was an insult in the past. If you still think of it as an insult, it makes people who use it much funnier.
SealSquasher · 3 points · Posted at 23:14:48 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I couldn't find it here but, retarded. People who have mental diablilites were considered mentally retarded until a lot of people used it as a derogatory term.
Living-by-Choice · 1 points · Posted at 04:48:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
... But the mentally handicapped aren't retarded , now my co-workers they're a bunch of retards
TheRealPatrickStar99 · 3 points · Posted at 00:33:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wumbo. You know it used to be I wumbo, you wumbo, he she me wumbo. We studied wumbology THE STUDY OF WUMBO. Now no one knows it anymore
kenrose2101 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:50 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is this a reference to something or a serious comment?
baldsauce · 3 points · Posted at 00:54:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"What's up." People just use it as a way of saying hi, and not actually asking a question.
bluereddituser · 3 points · Posted at 03:09:37 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Love.
sleepingmoon · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word, and love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night?
bluereddituser · 2 points · Posted at 20:42:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well When I think about love I think about the way a parents loves a child. Unconditionally, like I am willing to die so you can live a fuller life type of a thing. Or the way people love or are passionate a certain cause. Like I will die fighting for the cause type of thing. However people use love instead of like. I love icecream, I love Tv, I love Tina Fey. Are you willing to give up your life to fight for the cause of icecream, TV , or Tina Fey? Prob not.
sleepingmoon · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:11 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's very lovely. Thank you for responding.
bluereddituser · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:25 on May 21, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ofcourse! But what do you think? DO you think that Love has lost its meaning
sleepingmoon · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:15 on May 21, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes. A lot of people say it when they don't mean it. And I don't mean about ice dream.
diarrh3a69 · 10 points · Posted at 18:12:40 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Jiminy Jillickers
Mistaken_Stranger · 10 points · Posted at 18:27:00 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
We've got to do the Jiminy Jillickers scene again Milhouse.
asoiahats · 7 points · Posted at 18:57:00 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
But we already did it. It took seven hours but we did it. It's done.
bluepaint22 · 3 points · Posted at 21:31:39 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes, but we've got to do it from different angles! Again and again! And again and again and again!
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 22:07:11 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Socialism
Thanks to Bernie Sanders, it now means 'the government doing things' instead of the social ownership of the means of production.
BlaiddSiocled · 1 points · Posted at 10:02:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd say it's disingenuous to blame it on a single US politician. In the UK, I've heard the term used for at least a few years (beforehand, I wasn't interested in politics, so wouldn't know).
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:27:35 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Plus in the UK the leader of the opposition is an actual socialist.
rewfrew · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bernie himself says he is a socialist. I'm not sure what else we need.
fun fact: here's bernie praising bread lines and food rationing in Venezuela (before it completely melted down in 2016)
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:28:17 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
irony/ironic
rewfrew · 2 points · Posted at 21:17:21 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
are you going to tell me that it's not about rain on my wedding day ?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:25:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's more about a free ride when you're already late.
Naldaen · 3 points · Posted at 02:57:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is that related to the free ride when you've already paid from the song?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:09:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yea I just don't know the lyrics
rewfrew · 2 points · Posted at 19:32:05 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
well. isn't that ironic./g
MelofAonia · 6 points · Posted at 23:44:13 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Feminism. Used to be a powerful word used by 50% of the population fighting for equality. Now a minority of people confuse 'feminism' (like, the 'men should live underground and come up to pump gas and kill spiders' ["Boy Meets World" reference]) with actual feminism (the wage gap / reproductive health / serious international issues that need addressing). I had a long argument with a friend who 'hates feminism' where I tried to put my viewpoint across and finally had to admit that he had a point when he cited the "South Park" episode 'The F Word' about how words semantically shift over time.
Feminism (actual feminism, not the crap that is perpetrated by a minority and then magnified by the media) is a legitimate and important social movement, but its importance has been screwed up.
Midnight-Mallard · 7 points · Posted at 01:20:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't hate feminists. I actually agree with feminism. It female supremacists that I hate. Especially the ones who call themselves feminists.
paru98 · 4 points · Posted at 01:44:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seen this situation too many times...women bash men thinking they're "feminists" when it only reverses the gender inequality cycle instead of stopping it
Occams_Lazor_ · 7 points · Posted at 01:16:27 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
There is no fucking wage gap. You're one of them if you believe that lie.
Mensabender · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
A shame, really.
PKMNtrainerKing · 9 points · Posted at 18:43:38 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Racist
Tsquare43 · 2 points · Posted at 19:36:04 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nazi - is the person you comparing to a Nazi, are they in fact a proponent of National Socialism? Have they had actual rallies complete with burning swastikas in their yard?
No you don't agree with them, and go for the long haul can compare them to a group of people universally hated. Stop.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:22:01 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
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masta666 · 2 points · Posted at 00:03:13 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
In Psychological terms, this is referred to as semantic satiation
StickR · 1 points · Posted at 07:20:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Semantic saturation is what this phenomenon is called.
kirbysdownb · 2 points · Posted at 21:33:31 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pluto
Geckoface · 2 points · Posted at 21:33:46 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Due to popular internet sites, 'tube', 'twitch', 'subscriber' and 'tweet' now mean completely different things than when I learned them.
ILIKEFUUD · 2 points · Posted at 22:38:35 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
The phrases "How's it going?" "How are you feeling?" or "How's life?" are pretty much meaningless now. "Good, good, good." Everyone expects the same answers, and I find myself answering them like a reflex, even if it's not the right answer.
SowerOfDragonsTeeth · 2 points · Posted at 22:45:52 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Soon.
The Old English word meant "Immediately; right now" but it softened in Middle English to what it means now. Same thing with "Anon", which etymonline calls "A one-word etymological lesson in the enduring power of procrastination."
Zedding · 2 points · Posted at 22:48:42 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Freedom.
WembleySaFsee14 · 2 points · Posted at 22:52:50 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love you forever and never meaning it...
necromundus · 2 points · Posted at 22:57:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Kill is Kiss
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:00:05 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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necromundus · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:59 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Worth it.
clappingdog · 2 points · Posted at 00:37:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hero and bully
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:52:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Decimate.
Phobia
EvilCheesecake · 2 points · Posted at 01:06:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nobody ever gets blocked, they only get cockblocked. Nobody ever has legitimate complaints about people they game against (or in fact shows any emotion at all), they only get salty. Nobody ever relaxes, they only netflix and chill.
People love to get attached to the hot nu slang, and forget that those terms are not universally applicable. They overuse them to the point of worthlessness.
TwistedFireX · 2 points · Posted at 01:17:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nerd
VioletRoyalty · 2 points · Posted at 02:35:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Love
I hear everybody say it without meaning it
Also, Murder because it's just a hollow threat usually
DoctorWaluigiTime · 2 points · Posted at 02:47:25 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most swear words.
Predominantly because many folks like to use them every other word.
KleineSchatten · 2 points · Posted at 02:52:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Late to the party and it's gonna get buried, but "twisted", "demented", any of those words that 14 year old edgelords bust repetitive nuts over. Twisted used to be a legitimate word for something that was skewed and deviated from it's original form, not a codeword for slapping striped socks on something and giving it a smarmy little smirkthing.
Likewise, I'm pretty sure demented and deranged used to be medical terms, albeit way way back, for someone who was wrong in the head.
MemeCrisps · 2 points · Posted at 03:02:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally. Everyone says, "I'm literally going to kill you", it used to be a serious thing to say, but now has lost all meaning.
elgamonal · 2 points · Posted at 03:20:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Words related to metal illness: OCD Psycho Sycopath Bipolar
HITLERS_SEX_PARTY · 2 points · Posted at 03:20:58 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
'racist' and 'bigot'. Stop accusing people whom you disagree with.
TokyoCalling · 2 points · Posted at 03:38:13 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Moment.
How long is a moment? Roughly 90 seconds. Or it used to be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_(time)
DoughnutGore · 2 points · Posted at 03:40:32 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
From the content I see on Reddit, "perfect" has lost its meaning.
Chunksmommy · 2 points · Posted at 04:17:13 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Any word you repeat enough when you're high.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 10:04:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Prank. Fuck YouTube for this one.
LegacyLemur · 2 points · Posted at 10:17:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Brilliance" actually refers to the literal brightness of something.
When you call someone "brilliant" it's actually more of a metaphor. I always found that interesting
A_Queen_Ant · 2 points · Posted at 20:19:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Literally" has literally lost its meaning.
An_Army_Ant · 2 points · Posted at 02:32:13 on May 21, 2016 · (Permalink)
I figuratively want to murder everyone who uses literally wrong.
Formerpickle · 5 points · Posted at 18:04:31 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally...
Gohorne · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:59 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally
Spud_Eatkins · 3 points · Posted at 22:45:29 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bæ. Very useless word. Just say friend.
PianoManGidley · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or "beau." I feel like "bae" was the result of someone too stupid to properly spell "beau" when referring to their significant other.
Mnstrzero00 · 2 points · Posted at 05:08:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's a phonetic form of babe which is a form of baby. People are reading way too much into the word.
PianoManGidley · 1 points · Posted at 13:29:35 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
How is "bae" a phonetic form of "babe"?
Mnstrzero00 · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because a lot of people don't pronounce the second b.
PianoManGidley · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's just sounds like sloppy enunciating. I've never heard anyone speak that way myself.
Mnstrzero00 · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:05 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
People have different accents, dialects
neccoguy21 · 1 points · Posted at 02:37:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bae actually means that they're the person you put Before Anyone Else
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 11:16:37 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Its still retarded.
PIE_man901 · 1 points · Posted at 11:46:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Isn't it danish for shit?
bungle123 · 9 points · Posted at 18:18:39 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
SJW. It was stupid term to begin with, but reddit really ran it into the ground
IronedSandwich · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
SJW is only falling down the slope of this IMO.
ThatguyMalone · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:10 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reddit and Tumblr really double teamed this term into being used 100x more liberally.
SinaiAndHappiness · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
lol
ThatguyMalone · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Did I use it wrong?
Something tells me I used it wrong.
SinaiAndHappiness · 2 points · Posted at 23:58:24 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nonono, I thought you meant it as a clever dig at how SJWs are uber liberal and stuff, and I was just acknowledging it lol. You used it right!
ThatguyMalone · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:25 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh, huh. Didn't even catch that. Lol
MissMarionette · 4 points · Posted at 21:42:49 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pedophile. Someone who hits on a 16 year old is apparently a pedophile. Someone who pervs on even a 17 year old is a pedophile, or so claimed by idiots. No one seems to understand anymore that pedophilia is the attraction to prepubescent children. If you have tits or facial hair, they're not interested. If someone likes 15 year olds they're an ephebephile (a much less commonly known/used term). Someone who hits on a 16 year old is not a pedophile, and 16 is the age of consent in many countries. If you haven't gone through puberty by 16, there's something wrong with your body, anyway.
It's not necessarily automatically "okay" for a 16 year old to be perved on by a 40 year old man or woman, but to claim it's pedophilia is an insult to victims of molestation by pedophiles. Don't flatter yourself, no pedophile wants your C-cupped/sideburned ass.
Mensabender · 2 points · Posted at 00:35:44 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I suppose pedophile simply came to mean "someone who is attracted to someone who is legally a child."
cakeisl33t · 6 points · Posted at 22:14:28 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Any of the buzzwords used by leftists such as racist and xenophobic.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 00:58:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Anything phobic really. It's a medical and scientific term that's been completely perverted and taken over to mean something pejorative to shut down rational debate.
Roarlord · 3 points · Posted at 19:50:22 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
potato
potaaaaato
poh tay toe
potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato potato
potato?
potato.
PianoManGidley · 5 points · Posted at 00:26:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Definitely this. I swear, "potato" is the Internet's go-to word for being "random."
Roarlord · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or shitty quality
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 00:20:35 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
PS4 and X1?
RainbowLoli · 2 points · Posted at 23:50:54 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
For me, its racist / racism, blackface, homophobic, transphobic, literally, and triggered.
Some of my irl friends on facebook use these terms CONSTANTLY for things that are simply too minor and unironically. It really sucks because all of them are serious issues (Well... minus literally)
Kyle1337 · 2 points · Posted at 18:54:37 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Terrific used to be a synonym for terrible but now it means the exact opposite
dumbpoopbuttnose · 2 points · Posted at 19:43:43 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Meme
Just because it's a picture with words on it, doesn't make it a meme.
UpperManglement · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:21 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dawkins actually coined the word, and meant for it to have a substantially different definition as:
And now it generally means a picture of a cat with bold text over top.
ThatguyMalone · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:10 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Memes have made me hate impact font.
Ezl · 1 points · Posted at 07:02:13 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Amusingly, the idea of a meme being a picture with words is itself a meme.
aamfs94 · 2 points · Posted at 23:22:56 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally, literally
thefilthyhermit · 2 points · Posted at 03:10:30 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
RACIST! It means absolutely nothing to me.
Leatherneck55 · 2 points · Posted at 19:28:07 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Annual pay raise.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:51 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Today, presidential candidate Donald Trump..."
inline-triple · -3 points · Posted at 18:31:09 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Decimate! For the love of god, people. Decimate.
Ok, first, a disclaimer. I love language and communication, and yes, I realize that linguistics are fluid and not stable. A commonly accepted new definition or new use of a word can be validated and made permanent in a way that's different from slang.
That is not the case here. In the case of decimate, that's just people being stupid. Much like "nimrod" ...
Decimate is a word which has concrete and interpretive roots, and when paired with the original context of use, means something completely different. The root "Deci" is even in there, giving us clues as to the original meaning.
"To remove one tenth of something." ... this is because underperforming legions were punished by being decimated where one out of every ten soldiers were killed.
With that context, it means;
"A punitive measure where one in ten underperforming soldiers are killed as an example."
Nowhere in there is "obliterate" or "destroy completely" ...
Modern people misinterpreted the world to such a great degree, that we just updated the dictionary.
Big_Hat · 29 points · Posted at 21:34:00 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
This word as well as the word nimrod are two excellent examples of the fluidity of language that you mentioned. How can you say that they're not?
When was the last time you heard either of those words used to talk about destroying 10% of something or while referring to a biblical hunter? When was the last time you heard them not used in that way? People all over the English-speaking world regularly use those words to express destruction and idiocy respectively, therefore (as long as other people recognize their meaning) they are valid definitions for the words
inline-triple · -12 points · Posted at 11:50:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
You gotta get all merovingian on this and ask why. When language shifts because people misinterpret or misunderstand, that's letting the stupids win.
ilrhea · 9 points · Posted at 12:49:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
This is a surprising statement from someone who wrote just above:
"Decimate" is an image, it means to destroy a significant fraction of a group, I don't understand why so many people pretend that if that fraction is not exactly 1/10 and that group is anything other than Roman soldiers then you're not supposed to use that word. Actually I think I know why, it's because it has the obvious deci- prefix, so those who pretend to care can feel smart about knowing roots.
As I replied here, everybody, you included, use loads of words that have widened or shifted meaning through history, some of them much more dramatically and recently than decimate (which has been used in its slightly widened sense for 400 years). Why did you pick the decimate battle specifically?
Language shifts because people pick up new ways of expressing things and lose the habit of using others. It is a collective thing, you are doing it too, it has nothing to do with anyone being stupid. Did you know all the origins of the words I gave in the other post? There's plenty more that I don't know about, we all "misuse" them, it doesn't make us stupid. Pretending to care about some specific ones just so you can claim some people are stupid does make you an asshole tough.
NeilZod · 9 points · Posted at 13:44:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The first attested use of decimate to mean nearly complete destruction is from 1663. If this is the "stupids" winning, then I say it's a decisive victory.
ilrhea · 3 points · Posted at 13:59:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Which is, sixteen entire centuries after the last documented episode of decimation in a Roman army (20 AD). This is so long ago that even the language that is referred to as "Proto-English" (not Middle English like Chaucer, not Old English like Beowulf, but Proto-English) didn't even exist. It's an image built as a reference to a violent custom from ancient times, it's not like we encounter everyday situations where we need to make it clear we are using it in the ancient Rome sense.
NeilZod · 7 points · Posted at 14:15:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's almost like it became a new word in English rather than an old word in Latin.
ilrhea · 5 points · Posted at 14:55:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I am really curious why people rant about this "misuse" of the term and how it is dumbing down language. I imagine a conversation going like this:
"The peach crop in much of the Northeast was decimated by sub-zero temperatures."
"Northeast... you are talking about the Roman expansion beyond the Po valley right? But which legion again? I have never heard of this "Subsero" general, is he more famous under another name?"
"No dude. May is too cold this year, it is killing the fruit crop."
"Ooooh I get it! See, since I am more knowledgeable than you about the meaning of words, it is more difficult for me to pick clues from context and understand what you mean."
NeilZod · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd like to see how a Roman general would append his name after his victory over the peach crop. And I share your dismay.
kingkayvee · 15 points · Posted at 06:56:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No. Apparently you don't. Also, if you want to insult people for incorrectly using words, how about the fact that 'linguistics' is the study of language and what you meant to say is that languages are fluid and not stable.
ilrhea · 12 points · Posted at 10:27:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
People use it the mean "destroy a significant fraction in a systematic way", which isn't that far off from the meaning it had in Latin two thousand years ago. And even if it has shifted, it has not lost meaning.
Let's play a game:
"case" comes from Latin "to fall", which then shifted to a more general "to happen". You are so misusing that word it lost meaning.
"concrete" comes from Latin to mean "developed together", it doesn't even originally refer to things being material. You are so totally misusing this word.
You want other examples of words you use many times a day? A lot used to mean specifically a small object that you use when you need to pick things at random, or some kind of token. Later it meant a plot of land, attributed by drawing lots. The current meaning of "a large quantity" is more recent than the shifting of "decimate" by many centuries.
Another nice one (by the way nice until recently meant "foolish", "fussy" or "weak", not "pleasant", it comes from a Latin word which means "ignorant") is "silly": it used to mean "blessed" or "prosperous".
Do you ever feel down? Because "down" originally means "hill", same root as "dune".
Do you have rivals? By that, I am asking if there is a river flowing in your garden that your neighbours use for the same purpose as you.
You claim that you understand that words shift meaning, but when it is about that precise one that you care about then it's just people being stupid? And before you claim "but that one has deci- in it and I want to be able to tell people how smart I am because I know Latin roots!" do you care that much about December not being the 10th month anymore?
paolog · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:10 on June 2, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then there's centipede, millipede, hecatomb, megabucks...
Triquetra4715 · 12 points · Posted at 01:23:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have to disagree with you. Just because 'deci' is present doesn't make it exempt from the normal rules of language.
BlaiddSiocled · 7 points · Posted at 09:59:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure you do understand. Yes, people used a word outside it's established meaning and etymology. But how is that any different than what you said in your own disclaimer:
Seems perfectly normal to me.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:01:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually thought it was to leave one in ten standing, but I was wrong. Decimation hardly seems as bad now.
jay212127 · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Although it can be fun to point that many allied bombings would decimate areas. They were damaged but mostly intact. It's just after several 'decimations' over a year or 2 there was heavy and extensive damage.
DrInsano · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:55 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know about that. Being obliterated by another army is tragic and whatnot, but decimation tends to happen by the legion itself. Out of 10 guys, one of them would draw the short straw and the other 9 guys had to kill him. That's just fucked up.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:23:40 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even now I guess I was overlooking the "as punishment part." Though I do now recall seeing it used in this context on an episode of Spartacus. Amazing show.
Mnstrzero00 · 2 points · Posted at 05:04:45 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I agree with your idea but reading your comment has made me think about it a bit more. Imagine that you're part of a group and some force says that they will randomly kill every tenth man in that group. Let's say they do that on the scale of a country (just an example if a group that we are all a part of ) Say they send an envelope to every household with a random number for each man, and each contains a random number of one through ten, and whoever gets that ten is then murdered. That is some thoroughly diabolical shit. The survivors would be reeling for the rest of their lives. It isn't really that far from how we use it.
elbitjusticiero · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:20 on May 20, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Decimate"may have shifted because the deci- prefix makes it look like it means to reduce something to, instead or by, a tenth.
paolog · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:19 on June 2, 2016 · (Permalink)
You might find this interesting.
nice_guy_eddy · 0 points · Posted at 02:26:27 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Also: peruse
nice_guy_eddy · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why is this downvoted?
"Traditionally, peruse has meant to read or examine something carefully. But informally, it can have the opposite meaning, to read something casually and quickly."
robdestrob · -6 points · Posted at 19:04:07 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank you so much for this. I hate people who used this word incorrectly.
ilrhea · 13 points · Posted at 10:06:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I am starting a club for pedants who pretend to be annoyed by "December" being the 12th month because they want to feel superior by caring too much about a word that has shifted meaning centuries before they were born, would you be interested in joining?
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 00:39:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 10:02:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
No. Annihilate has a meaning of destroying something completely. People use "decimate" to mean "destroying a significant fraction in a systematic fashion", which really isn't far from the root meaning in Latin. It's just that the fraction doesn't have to be 10.
ProllyJustWantsKarma · 0 points · Posted at 17:42:32 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I use them as synonyms.
Mensabender · 0 points · Posted at 20:16:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know. It's just that "making into nothing" (annihilate comes from the Latin ad + nihil, literally "to nothing) is what some people intend when they say they decimate someone.
ilrhea · 2 points · Posted at 11:05:50 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know, when people talk about crops being decimated they don't mean they have completely disappeared, they just mean there has been severe losses.
papashuga · -7 points · Posted at 04:59:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank you so much for this. I wish I could upvote your comment twice. Misuse of the word decimate by sports announcers annoys me to no end.
ilrhea · 6 points · Posted at 20:00:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Other words that bother you when they are not used in their pre-Medieval sense? Or just this one because you happen to know its origin?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:16 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
What about "rival teams"? Do you accept it when announcers say two teams are rivals even if their stadiums are not built on the banks of the same river, or does it annoy you to no end?
AlmightyBox · -2 points · Posted at 17:38:49 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Racism and equality. Sucks to be a white, 'privileged' male nowadays. Everything you say or do WILL be used against you by some minority, feminazi's, et cetera.
OgeeDee024 · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
And the fact that you feel persecuted for being white is complete ass garbage
IronedSandwich · 0 points · Posted at 21:13:51 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
plurals don't use apostrophes
OgeeDee024 · 0 points · Posted at 00:40:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love how racist and sexist you got in the second half of your answer. Way to go man.
AlmightyBox · -1 points · Posted at 08:51:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
How exactly is my comment racist or sexist in any way? The only sexists/racists are morons like you that desperately try to find a sexist/racist motive behind everything.
OgeeDee024 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Using the blanket terms "minorities" and "feminazis"
AlmightyBox · -1 points · Posted at 16:33:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh boohoo.
OgeeDee024 · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Look, I'm not trying to be all PC or anything. I'm just saying white people have it really fucking easy. I would know, I'm white
AlmightyBox · 2 points · Posted at 16:52:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Spare me the white privilege crap. I grew up in a shitty neighborhood, in a poor family and my chances of ever coming out this environment were slimmer than most of the 'minorities' here that get a head start thanks to 'positive discrimination'.
Stop pulling the race card. The only reason minorities stay minorities is because they refuse to assimilate and adapt. I give everyone an equal chance, but if you pull the race card or blame your race for your own shitty behavior and attitude, you're on your own for all I care. The funny thing is that this behavior is only endemic for some ethnicities. There are tons of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Indian people here as well, and I never hear them complain about being discriminated against or not getting any chances. No, they all work their asses off and build a prosperous future for themselves and their children, without blaming every bump on the road on racism.
LordBrandon · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:36 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
I see a lot of homeless white people. Do they have it easy?
OgeeDee024 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:11 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Being homeless has nothing to do with race. I'm saying that historically, white Europeans have had it relatively easy compared to other races. Which is unfortunate but true
LordBrandon · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:53 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
you said "white people have it really fucking easy" since there are millions of poor and homeless white people, I'm trying to clarify if you think they all have it easy.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:23 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cute used to mean something different.
People now use disinterested like uninterested.
I have a theory, if you can call it that, that antisocial and unsocial used to be total seperate.
ValorousVagabond · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:35 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
What do you think it used to mean?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:10 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think it used to mean like sly or shrewd... But then it got the slang treatment and eventually turned into regular speak for its current meaning.
ValorousVagabond · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:52 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Google says it still means that, but it's exclusive to North America, apparently.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:25 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
'Shortened from acute, originally “keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd” (1731). Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US students (slang) c.1834. Meaning drifted further to associate specifically with the pleasing attraction to features usually possessed by the young'
So I think that the original meaning everywhere was sly or whatever, but then the current meaning started in America... But clearly it spread throughout.
ArtSchnurple · 2 points · Posted at 19:41:19 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh, like "Don't get cute"?
DegenerateJack · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:17 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I won't tell anybody I swear
GOKUS_TOENAIL · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:46 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:04 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
lol
x1echo · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:32 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Swag.
tatterdemalion420 · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Genius
quipkick · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:56 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Legitimately
GiraffeFetusArt · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:23 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fan. In Swedish.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Honesty
foulball3 · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:10 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Happiness.
1BoredUser · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:46 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thirsty.
empirebuilder1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:53 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
lol
ThatguyMalone · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't remember where I read this but someone said a viable alternative to lol would be SALTS (Smiled a little, then stopped).
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:03 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pretty much any curse/swear word. They're used so much now, most people just laugh em' off rather than get pissed off and offended. It's not even worth using them anymore.
G1G4BY7E · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:58 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cringe
BreakingTraining1977 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:42 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Jaw Dropping
SelectAll_Delete · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:04 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Tartlets
DarthBaculum · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:52 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Terrific, awful.
Bablyshli-abc · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:39 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry
benpoopio · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:50 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Uber and soon Snap
Funkydiscohamster · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:28 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Inspired. "I'm so inspired by that". No, you're not, you are "inspired" to DO something not just like it. Ugh!
analthrash · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:01 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not really a word but I feel "lol" has lost its meaning. It just sounds sarcastic now.
Timothy_Claypole · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:27 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Visibility" - in a business context this is losing its meaning.
A common phrase is "I don't have visibility of that" which makes no sense, as visibility is a property of the thing you are looking at, and is not something you can have, as the observer.
I hate this sort of mangling of the English language, all to try and sound marginally more smart, while at the same time being fucking ignorant.
Darkozzy · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:56 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Supposed." Think about it. If something is supposed to happen, that means that the general consensus is that it is assumed to happen. Therefore, if you think your new puppy has peed on the floor while you were out, it was supposed to pee on the floor, although such might be frowned upon.
joshman0r34 · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:10 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Love
Jason_Anaminus · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:11 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
rofl
people doesn't use rofl much as lmao and lol.
ATHEoST · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:34 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
anti-semite and anti-semitic
-nightblood- · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:12 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Peak
TheSurgeonGeneral · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:09 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Conspiracy
Shinosha · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:00 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Geek
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:05 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trust me
TheAnsweringMachine · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Any word you repeat over and over enough.
mattatinternet · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:50 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Problematic.
jstumps500 · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:24 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Beautiful
People want to use this for everything, but the implication is physical beauty.
3crownking · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:25 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cunt! That used to be such an unacceptable word. Like fuck, shit, bastard, prick where ok, once you used CUNT! People would gasp and look at you in disgust. Now it's "stop being a cunt and come to the shop with me buddy!"
jkman · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:44 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"How are you" is not something you say when you're genuinely concerned for someones well being. It's just used as a greeting now.
peachtruck · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:05 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuck
OTHER_ACCOUNT_STUFFS · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Best Friend
IronedSandwich · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:32 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
all profanity, awesome, epic, ASAP (the one I mourn the most), literally, cannot (fine. Take can't, but we need SOMETHING for the actual meaning), most innuendoes, sub (as an abbreviation for anything, it's so overused. I suggest shortening "subreddit" to "subrdt"), privilege, Nazi, subscribe
malaproperism · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:17 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hate. It's used so often for pretty much anything. It's not a joke when people say hate is a strong word, but we throw it out like college money anyway. What a shame.
Texanjumper · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:46 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"thanks for everything you do"
My VP of Sales says that EVERY TIME he ends a conversation with you, or leaves a meeting. It's literally his way of saying "goodbye"
rocadaboca · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:02 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ghetto
Quote_Poop · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:32 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
RIP
Slazman999 · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:42 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Spiders
Edit: context
_punyhuman_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:47 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Decimate- originally meant that one man in ten was killed now means that only 10% survives
trulyghjr · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:07 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Genius
Lus_ · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:14 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Beauty.
tyros · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:31 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Learning curve
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:58 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Love...
Singularity2soon · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:21 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Racist
Singularity2soon · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:51 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
(Insert Word)-Phobic
Singularity2soon · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
(Insert Word)-holic
GollyWow · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:33 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Virtual. In computing, it meant that a system or data space extended beyond the physical (real) hardware limits. Once it was bastardized by politicians, it took on the same meaning as "almost".
Voice-of-gawd · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:58 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love you.
HequalsI · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:59 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cunt
Stormygeddon · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:54 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cuckold.
another1urker · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:57 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
empower
Quadraxus · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:24 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fantastic; it's one of the most misused words I've ever seen. It means strange not great. A fantastic day at the amusement park involves getting abducted by aliens or something.
Stormygeddon · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Metrosexual
TrueMeditation · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:36 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cute
Butternades · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:22 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Anxious
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:20 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
gay
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:05 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fleek
ScrotumPotion · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:40 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
This isn't really anything specific, but it seems like you can't compliment anyone today (on appearances) without it being interpreted in a flirtatious way.
Mapamillion · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:52 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fine
Makabajones · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:35 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rewind/run it back.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:34 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Boobs
NYPD_FashionDivision · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:50 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fetch
Kevin_1981 · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:00 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ludicrous, due to Ludacris
shmameron · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:26 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Edgy. All it means now is "I don't like the comment you just posted."
IBiteMyThumbAtYou · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:43 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
In my relationship? "I'm sorry" because nothing really changes, and the same shit happens over and over again.
doorkn00b · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:05 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT: Words have changed but people don't understand that that is just its meaning now. Thats how languages work.
alienkreeper · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:06 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Love.
introversed · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:18 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Amazing
jambyx · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:04 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Radical
Kennett-Ny · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:39 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Moist
jeff_the_nurse · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:46 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Retarded.
PlatinumGoon · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:50 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Classy
Jtizzzle · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:55 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Calm down"
At this point it pretty much causes the opposite.
RadiantSun · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:29 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cringe
AmazonExplorer · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:20 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Genius. Back in Ancient Greece, genius was referred to as a type of demon that possessed people. Everyone had their own demon, but some demons were more special than others. Then in Christendom, genius changed to where God gave divine inspiration to a person's inner demon or "genius". Some "genius" was bad and inspired by Satan so the label demon stuck to these types.
Then came the Enlightenment which sort of reflects our traditional definition of genius that no longer comes from the divine, but something special with the individual. Then came the Romantics which gave more heroic attributes to genius. Finally came the modern period which gradually democratized genius to the point where the word simply doesn't have the impact it once did. Now, Steven Jobs was a genius, Kanye is a genius, etc.
I'm probably off at many points but I got this from the book "Divine Fury: A History of Genius". I think I got at least the gist of it.
ThatRandomRussian · 1 points · Posted at 23:27:06 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally
Catnap42 · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:24 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Maybe we should all say a prayer to St. Anthony so all of the meanings can be found for these poor words
coochieparty · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Amazing
arabicmotorcycle · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:55 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude.
Hexagon36 · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:26 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Awesome
Ghostspider1989 · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:02 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Retarded
Squad_Of_Hamsters · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dank
menacel · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:17 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
theory
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:19 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Any word if you say it enough!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:34 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
[deleted]
Mensabender · 1 points · Posted at 00:32:25 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally?
tequiladrinkngrl · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:46 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bi-polar and OCD
Superpineapplejones · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:39 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cinematic
Xiagax · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:27 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Stalking
I hear this alot of Facebook with people who openly accept friend requests. These people hear something they don't want to hear from the person they friended, they call it stalking when that person won't stop commenting, liking, reacting etc. on whatever but yet refuses to unfriend them because they don't want to lose any relevancy if they have less than a certain arbitrary number of friends on social media
mettalmiranda · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love you Trust Promise Anything like that people abuse
pedestrianhomocide · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:20 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Road
Road
Road
Road
Road
Road
Road
Road
Road
Road
Road
Road
Road
Road
artifex28 · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
List of Lost Words
Tbjkbe · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Suck. It use to be a very vulgar word. Now, it's used by preschool kids as a way to reflect they don't like something and no one blinks.
HappyHooligan1 · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:39 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Decimated. Technically it means "to reduce by 10%"
Sceneselector · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:32 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Legal immigration
frosted1030 · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pool donkey.
ryanasimov · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Peruse" originally meant to "read with thoroughness or care".
jon_gfisher · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Infinite
thaiguy29 · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Drama and sexism
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Awesome"
Avatar_ZW · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That guy cut me off in traffic and flipped me the middle finger.
How IGNORANT!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:18:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
At a wake when people say, "If there's anything I can do." I'd like to see an app to reinstate the true meaning of those words! Essentially, the app would have voice recognition for when somebody says, "If there's anything I can do." The phone would then immediately shows a list of things to do. Mowing the lawn of the deceased. Sorting belongings. Holding an estate sale. Etc.
"OK, I have you down for cleaning out the attic on Saturday."
"Next!"
swooby · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like... It's like people don't, like, understand what like really is like... Ya know?
Beastleh · 1 points · Posted at 01:22:13 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Swagger
NuggalisDanko · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Tartlets!
fdsa4321lbp22 · 1 points · Posted at 01:25:45 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"I'm sorry"
That-girl-you-knew · 1 points · Posted at 01:28:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Legit
That-guy-you-knew · 2 points · Posted at 18:46:20 on May 20, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's legit
That-girl-you-knew · 2 points · Posted at 20:52:20 on May 20, 2016 · (Permalink)
Clever. Do we know each other? Your user name suggests so.
That-guy-you-knew · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:41 on May 20, 2016 · (Permalink)
Of course we know each other. You're that girl I knew, right?
AndrewCanDo · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ignorant. I hear many people use it like the word rude.
putinsfloppytits · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:47 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dank
HappyGoPink · 1 points · Posted at 01:36:31 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Amazing" and "awesome" now mean "good".
Leharen · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:07 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I had a camp counselor once who told me that the word "troll" had no meaning anymore, as it meant so many different and unrelated things in today's society.
Thinking about it now, a lot of common swear words today have that same problem. I mean, look at "fuck"; it means so many different things in so many different situations that it's hardly feels like a word anymore.
CarmeTaika · 1 points · Posted at 01:47:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"which"
Rainbow_Monkeyz · 1 points · Posted at 01:52:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like
EvyEarthling · 1 points · Posted at 01:57:45 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Any word you repeat enough.
Fl3shwound · 1 points · Posted at 02:00:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Retard. Not trying to offend, but I cannot stand the "r" word campaign. Likening it to the "n" word is well...retarded. Which actually means to slow progression. So by saying someone is a retard, while now meant to hurt feelings and mock, is accurate in its literal sense that the person's mental or physical capacity has a slowed progression.
SleepWouldBeNice · 1 points · Posted at 02:01:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally literally
itsdrivingmenuts · 1 points · Posted at 02:02:37 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ignorant
Teraus · 1 points · Posted at 02:03:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hate.
People "hate" things way too easily nowadays, even if they just mildly dislike them.
zombie_snuffleupagus · 1 points · Posted at 02:04:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuck. I can say it in front of my 70-something parents, it's been reduced nearly to 'heck'. Maybe even literally.
TaylorS1986 · 1 points · Posted at 02:12:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Freedom" and "Liberty". Now they are just meaningless buzzwords spouted by (mostly right-wing" politicians.
Serpicus · 1 points · Posted at 02:16:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love you :/
wheks · 1 points · Posted at 02:18:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I saw something interesting on reddit the other day about how the word "apron" was originally "napron" but was changed because "an apron" is easier to say than "a napron". Its even listed in the Wikipedia page
Abomm · 1 points · Posted at 02:20:07 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hobo: It's been changed to mean homeless person when it used to be someone who works with no permanent home (migrant worker) or somebody like a WWII soldier who is trying to get home after the war but currently has no home (homeward-bound)
SuperZvesda · 1 points · Posted at 02:22:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Inception.
It used to mean to start or begin something. Often used in the context of helping someone else conceive of something.
Now it just means "a thing inside of another, larger one of the same thing"
nice_guy_eddy · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good news. These things can come back. Fascist used to be severely misused. I'm finding it more applicable and appropriately used.
tmolesky · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can everyone stop casually saying how they are " obsessed" with [insert noun here].
Brandonmac10 · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:32 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"I love you"
syzo_ · 1 points · Posted at 02:33:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Important" is getting there.
"OMG this is so important!!1" (picture of some dumb cat dressed up or some shit)
PortableTrees · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hear way to many people say "jealous" when they mean "envious".
dogthistle · 1 points · Posted at 02:45:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Comfort
pinkNarwal · 1 points · Posted at 02:48:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Retarded
rocknroe_v_wade · 1 points · Posted at 02:51:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Niggardly
knirefnel · 1 points · Posted at 02:55:25 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bird. What are birds? We just don't know.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
gay-carefree,happy,bright
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:00:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Police. Only to me though, because "Police police police police police police police police police police police police police," is grammatically correct
naptakerr · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
"Racist" What was once a repugnant and horrible thing to be called now simply means that you hold a view that the accuser disagrees with. It has become to a weak debate tactic used to shut own a dialogue that the accuser can not win.
Shermancyclist · 1 points · Posted at 03:02:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Niggardly means cheap or stingy
ApacheFYC · 1 points · Posted at 03:15:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Femenist
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The
mangomargaritas · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:30 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
legen... wait for it...
dary.
Overpricefridge · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage, if you fucming throw a basketball in a hoop everyone yells "O FUCKIN SAVAGE" last time I checked, shooting your boss, taking a cheese grater, grateing some of his skin off, and replacing a little of your ciggerettes tabbaco with the skin you shaved off and litterly smoking him would be savage, the nazis making Jew skin lamp shades was savage, slavery was savage, your basket was not savage
MillianaT · 1 points · Posted at 03:28:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
In the vast majority of the continental US only -- bilingual. It's supposed to mean you know two languages, here it means you know Spanish (or really the Mexican version of Spanish), in addition to American English (the language, not the band). (Try applying for a bilingual job with any other second language!)
Also, gang banger. I have absolutely no idea how that went from a gang-rapist to a gang member...
Ice--9 · 1 points · Posted at 03:31:33 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
hitler
AnticScarab3 · 1 points · Posted at 03:33:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ignorant.
It used to mean "lacking knowledge", and now it means "rude or offensive". It irks me because now we don't have a word for when someone is actually lacking knowledge, and we didn't need another word for rude/offensive (we already have the words "rude" and "offensive" for that).
One time, one of my coworkers was calling someone and she said "Oh my god! It went straight to voicemail! That is SO ignorant!" I'm not even making this up.
FlyMyPretty · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nice originally meant stupid, then became shy or coy, then got its current meaning.
Maruyruma · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Incredible
guitarokx · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Terrific is not on the list??? That's how far the meaning has been lost!
Logic_Nuke · 1 points · Posted at 03:46:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Synergy. Which is kind of a shame, as its intended meaning is actually rather useful. But corporate jargon has kind of made it into a joke, unfortunately.
nevereverreddit · 1 points · Posted at 03:47:21 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Humbled.
YoMommaSez · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yahoo and twit.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Best Friend"
L4V1 · 1 points · Posted at 04:02:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trust me.
kexkemetti1 · 1 points · Posted at 04:04:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"god" (actually it never could be clear at all as you can not point to it, it simply has no reference in our experience...it is a psychotic phantasy in a collective trance hypnosis...used generally to debunk , harass or opress others and ourselves) - of course people try o phatom it by using rhymes like "good"...The biblical "god-name" is different as it - yehoweh- denotes a concrete emotionally experienced process: when we cretae some new entity (in emotions). Howeh means present being and Ye-howeh refers to it in the future. (In German it could be translated as Werden, Becoming, but is a form - in future - of the verb To Be or To Exist.) The concept (the whole Bible text) was preserved mainly because this was the best explanation for the word "god" ("el" in the Bible that referst to something Upward) by giving it a meaning ful name and reference. Imagine just for a moment that it means Futurator and whenever you use - or read - the word "god" imagine this context behind or around it. /The Futurator "asks you to love your enemy or the stranger" and so on...)
Clipse83 · 1 points · Posted at 04:05:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Decimate
Sydviciouz · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rape. Because everything is rape now.
Also, racist. Everything is racist now. You can say anything about a specific race without getting called a racist.
BadBlood37 · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
In god we trust.
Feegert · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Failure
xxkoloblicinxx · 1 points · Posted at 04:22:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuck.
Saying "fuck you" used to mean something. Not so much any more.
Inebriated_rat · 1 points · Posted at 04:24:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Perfect, brilliant, and genius. I cringe whenever I hear these words used to describe another person, and usual assume the exact opposite until proven otherwise
AnonymousGirlxxx · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Literally"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bitch.
bonerball · 1 points · Posted at 04:26:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
libertarian
BabyDoll1994 · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
If anyone watches BBC documentaries, the word extraordinary. If everything is extraordinary nothing is.
mtsuguy · 1 points · Posted at 04:31:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"love you" means "goodbye"
AlabamaSniper · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"That sucks"
silkysmoothjay · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
An acronym more than a single word, but "SJW" at this point is used to refer to just about anyone who expresses a view that's left of center.
ERRORMONSTER · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ultimate. It just means "last," not "best."
It's funny, because "penultimate" still means "second to last."
Matt321089 · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Edgy. Nowadays it's mostly just used to describe people that have a differing opinion.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:53:07 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Racism" used to mean treating people with different colored skin unfairly. Now it just means statistics/opinions that college students don't like.
Metube12 · 1 points · Posted at 04:53:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
literally.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love you
pogg · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym#Examples
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_auto-antonyms
Fishlover12 · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally
pr0crasturbatin · 1 points · Posted at 05:07:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most slurs, thanks to 4chan
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was talking with a friend of mine said the woman had hurt his ride watch ur step or get hurt yourself lies sir don't do me like that what I love u baby don't do me like that soe.day need yiu baby listen u see bury me bpunlic eye givng someone else a true soe lies size don't so like me that don't sue me lol that . Don't ms me like thst what I'd I need y between rsomeqherw deep down is I'd be someone is saying love to st. Tladt that long take it now low listen honey can u see baby u bury me public eye try watch ur stow hurt urself tell you lies size dotbd dodneneme lie that
AdamJensensCoat · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:05 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Conducive
zeus1799 · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:32 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't even
eastbayted · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The phrase "good job" in the world of education. Teachers says it to kids all the time, and it's meaningless.
breakinginferno · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nice. It use to mean something along the lines of silly.
NWDiverdown · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Love
rcwjenks · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:58 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cougar and bear
Ridiculyss92 · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Dab" went from being just a "dab" to being some stupid move or drug habit.
atlien1986 · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Decimated. It is used more and more to describe something that is totally ravaged, but it originally means 1 tenth of something is lost.
Genuine_CoxComb · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage
bgRakia · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Owned
Thopterthallid · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:37 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Role Playing Game
the4thuser · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Straight.
Bounty1Berry · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
'Special' used to have positive connotations.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Feminism
StormCrow1771 · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Technically? Literally.
emo_maximus98 · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
LITERALLY
fantasyvsreallife · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:39 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry.
himarwahshi · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dumb. It used to mean mute, someone who can't speak, but people opt for the meaning stupid instead.
4channeling · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally.
thecolorgreen123 · 1 points · Posted at 06:16:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
meme
Deroni76 · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sarcasm.
So many people mistake irony for sarcasm. They'll see someone making a lighthearted joke and say "Wow, you're being so sarcastic."
Irony is lighthearted. Sarcasm is spiteful.
quackerzdb · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Peruse. Everyone uses it to mean its opposite.
pleachchapel · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Discriminate. A bigot does not discriminate. The act of lumping a general group of people together & assigning them collective qualities is literally the opposite of discriminating.
kommiesketchie · 1 points · Posted at 06:34:05 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Awesome
darkslayersparda · 1 points · Posted at 06:40:24 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally
Nows means ironic,satirically, sadly, humorously and a whole lot of others
TaishaP · 1 points · Posted at 06:41:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bitch
KilljoySadid · 1 points · Posted at 06:41:27 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:44:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rad!
beavercommander · 1 points · Posted at 06:46:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hate. "Ugh, Carla wore the same shirt as me. I hate her." No you dislike her. Hitler hated Jews. To me there is a clear separation.
arhanv · 1 points · Posted at 06:47:49 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Claustrophobia"
Just because you're in a small room, doesn't mean that you have Claustrophobia. Some people really are terrified of being in small spaces... Feeling a slight lack of air isn't Claustrophobia
mermaidleesi · 1 points · Posted at 06:57:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Class, or classy. Whenever something is actually classy, it is never stated, because it just is. But the moment something is called "classy" it's almost anything but.
ohnamoo · 1 points · Posted at 07:02:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Unique
kxdvo · 1 points · Posted at 07:02:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Legit
sephferguson · 1 points · Posted at 07:08:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hero / Heroic
I saw a bunch of people calling a girl a hero / saying she was heroic on youtube because she doesn't shave her armpit hair.
operator10 · 1 points · Posted at 07:11:07 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Democracy.. got fked up..
oneoldgrumpywalrus · 1 points · Posted at 07:21:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Prank
iminyourmind · 1 points · Posted at 07:29:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cunt
mystriddlery · 1 points · Posted at 07:43:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Five minutes away
_NiggyStardust_ · 1 points · Posted at 08:04:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lifetime warranty
byJSN · 1 points · Posted at 08:27:17 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rape. Online players and feminists desensitized it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:29:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"The Army ain't no place for a black man"
These words may have been true a lifetime ago when it was...less popular...to be black in America, but things are different now. Yet, this rhetoric is commonly repeated in the "black community" til this very day. Despite what Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and others would have everyone believe, race relations between blacks and whites are significantly better today than they once were.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:58:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally.
pokestar14 · 1 points · Posted at 08:59:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dank
snow_michael · 1 points · Posted at 09:06:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Myriad: people think 'lots': actual meaning 'ten thousand'
Enormity: people think 'big': actual meaning 'great evil'
Fulsome: people think 'lots': actual meaning 'repulsive'
Decimate: people think 'slaughter all': actual meaning 'kill one in ten'
Disinterested: people think 'bored': actual meaning 'unbiased'
Continual: people think 'non-stop': actual meaning 'stop and start'
And so many more...
Yes, I know the English language is a living evolving thing, but if you're someone who knows what the words actually mean, it's make you twitchy when even reputable sources (e.g. the BBC) get these wrong
ElMachoGrande · 1 points · Posted at 09:14:25 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Terrorist. Basically, it has eveloved into being "any guy with a gun I don't agree with".
Vooshka · 1 points · Posted at 09:14:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Revert. It drives me bonkers when my colleagues or clients use it in place of reply.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:16:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Slay.
Polumbo · 1 points · Posted at 09:17:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Triggered"
Cronamania · 1 points · Posted at 09:18:11 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Scallywag
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:30:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is gonna be controversial, but 'anti-semitism'. It used to be used to describe people who were actually against Jews, now its used against anyone who criticises Israel or sticks up for Palestine, even if the person themselves is Jewish.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:33:01 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Offended.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:35:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"...you won't believe..."
mudkip300 · 1 points · Posted at 09:40:08 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Minion
L0RDA55H0L3 · 1 points · Posted at 09:45:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rape
FluffyPhoenix · 1 points · Posted at 10:16:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I want to say the pound sign since it's now a hashtag, but that's not exactly a word.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:22:10 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Terrific". It used to be past tense for something that caused terror, "I got held at gunpoint once, it was terrific". It's definition changed, past tense for something great that has happened. "Jimmy got an A+ on his test, it's just terrific!" .. now, it's used in a sarcastic manner for when something goes wrong.
Arrav_VII · 1 points · Posted at 10:38:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
To ring someone up.
goodoldharold · 1 points · Posted at 10:49:37 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Legend.
AshleyWang · 1 points · Posted at 10:49:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
friend
Ninetendoh · 1 points · Posted at 11:00:04 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Guys. It use to be about references a group of people of both males and females. Now you get females who get offended when you walk into a room and say "hey guys, how's things?"..... " ohh, so mean everyone else except me?" "UWOTM8?"
awenclear · 1 points · Posted at 11:02:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Boner used to mean mistake... Now it means an erection. Not sure where they got that from
Dazines · 1 points · Posted at 11:08:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trolling
The once skilled art where now reduced to describing anyone who is abusive to another person online...
Homusubi · 1 points · Posted at 11:19:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Skill", or more usually "skills". No longer the ability to craft a dagger/live in the wilderness/do integral calculus/do unspeakable things in bits of a computer nobody knew were there.
Skills don't actually have to be material any more. Instead, they can be things like "social skills", "communication skills", "leadership skills", and "self-management skills", none of which can be quantified - which means anyone can say they have them and not be conclusively proven wrong.
NewFoundAbility · 1 points · Posted at 11:21:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Trolling" & "Meme'ing"
The second word was actually used in a sentence, and it lost all meaning to me.
redditmortis · 1 points · Posted at 11:38:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Feminism
Oppression
Racism/Sexism/Homophobia/etc.
laconicflow · 1 points · Posted at 11:39:03 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Racism. Not that there still isn't racism of course, but I think the left tends to use it as a go to now and thus its power as an insult gets deluded. If too many people get called racist, other people take that as backround noise and stop listening
VerifiedMod · 1 points · Posted at 12:02:41 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
CHIVALRY
BpshCo · 1 points · Posted at 12:06:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Euphoric
dont_worryaboutit139 · 1 points · Posted at 12:18:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Terrific - It means something that inspires terror
Pastah_Farian · 1 points · Posted at 12:43:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Freedom
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:49:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Racism.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:51:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The word lol and k
darth_did_her · 1 points · Posted at 12:52:07 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally. People use it to describe almost everything.
brainiac3397 · 1 points · Posted at 13:01:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Various forms of profanity. There was once a time where the word "fuck" would shock people. Now it's introduced as the every second or third word in most people's conversation.
We need newer, harsher, more profane curse words!
heretik · 1 points · Posted at 13:03:20 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Irregardless. The word is so common now that it actually has a meaning. It means its own literal opposite.
WaWaCrAtEs · 1 points · Posted at 13:34:38 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Tartlet
Jano606 · 1 points · Posted at 13:34:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"like"
is this even used as an adjective for similarities or is it just a precursor, space filler for people to collect their thoughts
deebee1447 · 1 points · Posted at 13:36:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
lol
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:42:09 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally
AlphaQUp_Bish · 1 points · Posted at 13:42:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gourmet
ArmaDominus · 1 points · Posted at 14:03:43 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Determination" Literally used in any sentence; "Haha good undertale reference bro."
codywood101 · 1 points · Posted at 14:12:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The word love it's lost its meaning entirely we say we love things so much that we really only like. "I loved that movie" "i loved that food" "i loved that book" when love has such a more deeper feeling than just liking material things. The main problem is we don't have many words to replace with love so we just use love but in doing this we lose the more deeper meaning of what love is
Ginkgopsida · 1 points · Posted at 14:14:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Samazing42 · 1 points · Posted at 14:21:36 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The word sociopath. I see so many people use it to describe people they don't like or with whom have philosophical disagreements. Any time someone is called a sociopath on websites like Reddit, I pretty much immediately discount the commenter.
pop_goestheweasle · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally... like... put those two in a sentence, and you get an average teenage girl.
StickSauce · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:12 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dashboard. Originally, It isn't that cluster of gauges, or readouts in the cab of your car or anything. It's literally a board, that stops dirt from getting into your buggy when your horse dashes.
IronedSandwich · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
sure, know, anything else affirmative more or less
Mondak · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:36 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Analytics
xMoyles · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cunt
rocketdock · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:54 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
sorry, bitch you aint sorry you're just trying to be polite
bigugly86 · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:30 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love you has lost a lot of its meaning because of how casually it is thrown around by people.
ImaPeacockdamnit · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Road
Roud
Row add
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lowkey
muststayawaketoread · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:21 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally.
Yung_Monet · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:24 on May 19, 2016 · (Permalink)
Angst
manbearbatman · -1 points · Posted at 17:57:29 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
-racist
-islamophobic
-bigot
Holdin_McGroin · -3 points · Posted at 18:59:42 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Islamophobic never really had any meaning
spacedrgn · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:59 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like
georgejoem · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:49 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Bless You" when someone sneezes.
Most people have no idea what it means (like the origin), they just say it because they always heard it growing up. It has no relevant meaning and does nothing for anyone. People sneeze. Just go on with your life. You don't have to say something every time someone sneezes. IT'S A NORMAL BODILY FUNCTION.
And if you are one of the people who say it, don't be upset when someone doesn't "thank you" for it. You literally did nothing for them. Don't expect something in return for doing nothing.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 17:27:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally.
IronedSandwich · 2 points · Posted at 21:14:19 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
how did you get past my Chrome extension? fuck.
4e2n0t · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:38 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuck
Shnezzberry · -1 points · Posted at 20:45:05 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuck is such a wonder full word. It can be a verb, noun, interjection, it conveys emotions and attitude so well, it's the only infix in the emglish language, and is very flexible
4e2n0t · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:40 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
True, all to the sacrifice of the original meaning, for the most part.
Shnezzberry · 1 points · Posted at 04:15:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
It stiil means act of sexual congress, no?
4e2n0t · 1 points · Posted at 13:29:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The literal definition, yes. But many of its uses are estranged from the definition.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:03 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"I promise."
It holds no weight on anyone's shoulders so they feel no guilt if they don't keep it.
KyleHooks · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:30 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I try to keep my promises and I feel terrible if I'm not able to hold up to it.
TaroShake · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
The F word.... it's been used so much its impact and meaning has been diluted.
For example: Johnny, you "f---ed" me up really good. They can be implied as a sexual term or a harmful term both psychologically or physically.
Ganjake · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:08 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Free
MuchBiggerInRealLife · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:18 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Hi, How are you?"
"Fine, how are you?"
lovelylady227 · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:46 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Plethora. People use it to mean "a lot of something," when the actual definition is "so much of something that it's a problem."
michaelpanik92 · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:58 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Awkward
KingWillTheConqueror · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:06 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ridiculous. Means "amazing" or some shit now.
Mnstrzero00 · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's redonkulous
SOwED · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:34 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dank
slavetowork · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:38 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Taking picture. People always says "selfie" even if somebody does it for them.
PromptCritical725 · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reform. It literally means "change" but has that positive connotation that is used to subjectively brand a particular type of vague change as the good change.
madeacc0unttosaythis · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:15 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Racism, sexism, trigger, add any other word SJW's spew too much.
Mensabender · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:48 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hear trigger mostly from people mocking SJWs...
paul_aka_paul · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:51 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lousy. It isn't often used, but when it is it means poor quality. But it used to mean having a lot of something. This came from the original meaning that something that was lousy was infested with louse. So being lousy with <blank> meant being metaphorically infested with <blank>.
Saying "I'm lousy with women," means you have zero game now, but it used to mean you couldn't keep track of all the tail you were lining up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:17 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Offended
Catchrking · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:48 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thoughts and Prayers
Example:
News report on Facebook: Car crash injures 4 people
Typical response: "Prayers"
Kinda surprised no one has said that yet... Guess you have to live in the southern states.
drNothing · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Terrific Literally means the opposite of its intention.
Think, horrific to cause horror Terrific to cause ...wonderful..?
WiseWordsFromBrett · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:16 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Decimate...
Losing 10% is really not all that bad.
Da_Funk · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Literally." People use it as emphasis and it ends up being used as an antonym of the correct definition.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:09:19 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Love. My bf just broke up with me :(
Arumspartan · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:00 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hate
frachris87 · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:14 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Hate".
How often is that word casually thrown about for something people simply 'dislike'?
MC_Grondephoto · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:15 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Love....oh and literally
ThatNickah · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:45 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Insane
Risktobloom · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally
_finesse · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
love
PapaNickelz · 1 points · Posted at 02:45:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Feminism
codename9 · 1 points · Posted at 02:47:40 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"I love you"
ThagAnderson · 1 points · Posted at 02:51:52 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally.
Mymixtapeisice · 1 points · Posted at 03:47:55 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Triggered
It used to mean an actual reaction, but now it just means angry or annoyed.
Shart_Gremlin · 1 points · Posted at 04:02:50 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
FTW has somehow become "For the Win"
It's "Fuck the World" people.
Fuck. It's biker slang.
avaslash · 1 points · Posted at 08:14:34 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Awesome
These days awesome just means cool. Awesome used to mean what flabbergasting, awe inspiring, and stupefying mean today. When you read old books like the bible you will come across descriptions such as "and it was awesome." It sounds hilarious given the current understanding of the word but think about what the word is actually made of: "awe-some" as in it is made of and creates awe. Awesome used to be an incredibly powerful word that was reserved for describing that which was truly worthy such as seeing the world below from orbit of space, or peoples visions of gods.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:16:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
So is anyone going to say Curvy?
Curvy now = overweight/obese
seacrane · 1 points · Posted at 10:05:37 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"racist"
the left have so over-used that word it has no sting anymore
EverybodyLovesCrayon · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:56 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Scared / Offended / Unsafe
If you're really scared / afraid because someone wrote "Trump" on a wall, I don't know what those words mean anymore. The three above words appear to just mean, "upset that someone doesn't have the exact same opinions as I do."
diaboo · 0 points · Posted at 22:25:10 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Honestly, "upset" would just be a better word to use in general. Scared, offended, and unsafe more often than not don't give a very good idea of how people feel about a problem or how big a problem is. "Upset" just sounds more mature.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:55:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Gender" used to be the distinction between masculine and feminine traits linked to respective sexes. Now it's a completely useless term hijacked by mentally ill people trying to deny biological realities.
lasttimeseller · 0 points · Posted at 18:25:01 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"tremendous" and "beautiful"
Thank you, Donald Trump
IronedSandwich · 2 points · Posted at 15:41:51 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/NoContext
KyleHooks · 0 points · Posted at 18:47:27 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd say it's a yuuuuge problem
rck_james_bitch · 0 points · Posted at 17:39:33 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
lol
siyl1979 · 3 points · Posted at 18:03:17 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
To be fair, even in the days of AIM, I don't think I ever actually laughed out loud when I typed lol.
hooch · 0 points · Posted at 18:56:39 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Hipster" is the guy who wears flannel while he makes whiskey at his own still, then hand-cranks a record player for tunes while he whittles his own canoe out of reclaimed driftwood.
I'm not a hipster because I buy records sometimes.
lespaulstrat2 · 2 points · Posted at 20:04:52 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually the real original meaning was someone who hung out in the East Village, read Ginsberg and Kerouac went to basement clubs and listened to poetry. See also Beatnick.
Obi_Scam · -1 points · Posted at 17:26:00 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Words without action are not worth the breath or time taken to write out.
KyleHooks · 3 points · Posted at 18:17:50 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
So you don't have an answer...
ThagAnderson · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Eschew Obfuscation, Espouse Elucidation.
suttonziaian · 0 points · Posted at 18:06:50 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry.
din7 · 0 points · Posted at 18:11:46 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Amazing.
The_Fluffy_Walrus · 0 points · Posted at 18:25:09 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dank. Hardly see it used how it's supposed to be used anymore.
ThatguyMalone · 3 points · Posted at 21:24:40 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
And whenever a teacher use it correctly, you have to listen to a handful of annoying memelords in the corner laugh their asses off and refuse to shut up.
siahbabedblsiah · 0 points · Posted at 18:25:54 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like
Englishhedgehog13 · 0 points · Posted at 18:57:05 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sick
Snugix · 0 points · Posted at 19:15:46 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Legendary
NysonEasy · 0 points · Posted at 19:22:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Identify
liljs24 · 0 points · Posted at 19:59:18 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you divide "cannot" into "can" and "not", it doesn't mean "unable to," it means "able to not." I
can'tam not able to prove that the latter is the original meaning, but it's what I would assume it is.nelsonbestcateu · 0 points · Posted at 20:19:36 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Respect
Avatar_ZW · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:42 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
yeah now it means to change your character's stats.
...i think
smokeout3000 · 0 points · Posted at 21:50:54 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Respeck
MABfan11 · 0 points · Posted at 20:24:07 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
freedom
not_the_killing_type · 0 points · Posted at 20:25:27 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Democracy
jeufie · 0 points · Posted at 20:42:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Peruse means to read intently, while it is often used by people who mean the opposite.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 20:46:06 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sucks. It means the same thing, but it seems like everyone forgot where it came from: sucking dick. I remember when it was kind of a bad word (probably until like ten years ago). Now, it gets casually thrown around in ads and even in journalism.
crazycrik · 0 points · Posted at 20:49:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry
ThatguyMalone · 0 points · Posted at 21:10:20 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally
Scrappy_Larue · 0 points · Posted at 23:09:59 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Republican"
I_Am_ZapBranniganAMA · 0 points · Posted at 23:33:07 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't believe no one has said
SAVAGE
DrEazyE12 · 0 points · Posted at 23:44:58 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Penultimate.
misterbonger · 0 points · Posted at 00:41:06 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hero. Definitely, hero. Everybody's a hero these days it seems.
OgeeDee024 · 0 points · Posted at 00:43:35 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Objectively.
Terry_Dachtel · 0 points · Posted at 01:00:29 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Epic, ever, literally.
MysteryRanger · 0 points · Posted at 01:04:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally
Nolivici · 0 points · Posted at 01:23:23 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
CTRL+F: "Literally"
Yep, its there.
Abomm · 0 points · Posted at 02:17:59 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Meme
whotaketh · 0 points · Posted at 02:28:57 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Epic. Literally.
NWBoomer · 0 points · Posted at 02:38:26 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally. People use it when they actually mean figuratively.
Sandy_Beachman · 0 points · Posted at 02:48:30 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Decimated- In the Roman empire, if a certain unit did not fight as well as expected, they were lined up and every tenth man was killed. (Decimal= 1/10th= decimated). Now it has become the same as totally destroyed. Decimated = 1/10th destroyed.
nog00d · 0 points · Posted at 02:54:02 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Decimate. The term originated from Roman legions that would execute one tenth of mutinous soldiers, now is used to mean "completely obliterate. "
vodkakitty23 · 0 points · Posted at 02:59:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
LITERALLY
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 03:23:27 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bukakke
jaded_doorman · 0 points · Posted at 03:32:27 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ratchet
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 03:32:28 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Racism, Sexism, Offended, Triggered (this is the worst. There are people who ACTUALLY have triggers...), and many more. Thanks to Liberals.
InVultusSolis · 0 points · Posted at 03:48:56 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally.
ecordell11 · 0 points · Posted at 03:49:18 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
The words "i love you" it's not the same. Kids meeting people and within 2 weeks saying I love you. When truly they barely know each other. It just doesn't make sense to me.
JackpotKid · 0 points · Posted at 05:55:46 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Love
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 10:23:45 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well not many people realize what "Moderation" or "Tolerance" means.
KeyserSoze15 · -2 points · Posted at 20:45:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Marriage. Gender.
IronManatee4353 · -1 points · Posted at 17:38:01 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry
PM_me_question · -1 points · Posted at 17:49:38 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Meaning, their, lost, have, words and what.
Cedosg · -1 points · Posted at 18:02:00 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Telegraph
TickleTorture · -1 points · Posted at 22:44:35 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Decimate - it means to destroy 1/10.
minus1millionKarma · -2 points · Posted at 20:02:41 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Muh soggy knees
FrankBurlyPI · -3 points · Posted at 17:28:35 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bimbo used to just mean a black woman
Boner4SCP106 · 5 points · Posted at 18:06:45 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't think that's accurate. Do you have a source for that?
snow_michael · 1 points · Posted at 09:08:22 on May 18, 2016 · (Permalink)
When?
In 1890s-1920s it meant any not-that-bright man (q.v. PG Wodehouse)
Priamosish · -3 points · Posted at 18:08:30 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Every politician's pledge.
abdurehman651 · -5 points · Posted at 17:37:39 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
Words that is not possible or cannot be performed is meaning less
IronedSandwich · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:56 on May 17, 2016 · (Permalink)
try again, that made no sense