• Cyborganism
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    26 months ago

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

    • @Sterile_Technique
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      136 months ago

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

      • Cyborganism
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        106 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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          36 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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          26 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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        36 months ago

        Lemmy users hate people learning

    • El Barto
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      86 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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      -76 months ago

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      • @[email protected]
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        236 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?