• @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