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[-] Hupf@feddit.de 48 points 9 months ago
[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 32 points 9 months ago

There will come the day where humankind abandons traditional language and embraces comunicating only via relevant XKCD comics

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago

The students, this years records destroyed

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 8 points 9 months ago

Shaka, when the walls fell.

[-] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

You know Randall is going to make that meta comic

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago

How is there so many relevant xkcds

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 31 points 9 months ago

Of course I can distinguish the words, I just don’t know their meaning, and it bugs me.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago

Etymology is not just the meaning of words but their history. How they were coined and what they meant at different times in the past.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago

I always wondered how hardcore etymologists (?) feel watching certain history shows or sci-fi knowing that there's no way they could be using certain words or phrases.

[-] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

I assume it's roughly the same feeling programmers get when some TV character "creates a GUI interface using visual basic to track the killer's IP address."

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 6 points 9 months ago

I'm an IT dude (part software dev, part network admin) and I like etymology. Can confirm.

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago

smashes two keyboards at once, causing green-on-black HTML code to appear in the reflection in sunglasses

I’m in.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Depends. A show taking place in the 80s where the kids are saying "poggers" and "rizz" would be pretty jarring.

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

you have to have some yarbels to get me gulliver to watch 80s baffoonery.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 24 points 9 months ago

It's a classic epidemiological failure to appropriately organize one's knowledge and information.

[-] Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

I propose a slight edit:

The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't even begin to put into words.

[-] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Or with accent... I can't even buggin to put into words

[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Ask your ant, or your ankle

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I actually did make that mistake IRL exactly once.

[-] RHSJack@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I didnt want to upvote you. I really didnt. But my parents raised me better. I am upvoting because its good optics in the neighorhood.

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

This was brilliant! Loved it.

this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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