• Cyborganism
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      23 months ago

      Who here had to go look the meaning of that word? Raise your hand. ✋

      • @Sterile_Technique
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        133 months ago

        …why are you getting downvoted for looking up a word??

        • Cyborganism
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          103 months ago

          I don’t know. My native tongue is French. Sycophants in French means spy or inside informer. But we rarely, if ever, use that word.

          In English it has another meaning. I had to look it up.

          • @rayyy
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            33 months ago

            Maybe because an up-vote is - hands raising and down-vote is - hands down. Some things are hard to convey via internet messaging.

          • @mPony
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            23 months ago

            Sycophants in French means spy or inside informer.

            mon ami, et-tu sur? I’m finding no reference to it at all.

        • FenrirIII
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          33 months ago

          Lemmy users hate people learning

      • El Barto
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        83 months ago

        Good for you that you learned a new word today.

        But that term has been associated with Trump and characters like Elon and Bezos for a long time now.

      • @njm1314
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        • @[email protected]
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          233 months ago

          They looked up a word they did not know and learned something. Are you proud to be condescending to people who admit they didn’t know something you take for granted?