• Peachy [they/them] M
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      -181 year ago

      “lame” isn’t super appreciated here. At best it’s a homophone of a word that is ableist. At worst, people are actively being ableist. You never know with the internet, we have a ton of extremely problematic people pop in and use words that mean the second option. There’s just better ways to express disbelief or calling someone socially inept.

      But yeah, prude.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            “copypasta” isn’t super appreciated here. At best it’s a homophone of a word that is ableist. At worst, people are actively being ableist. You never know with the internet, we have a ton of extremely problematic people pop in and use words that mean the second option. There’s just better ways to express disbelief or calling someone socially inept.

            But yeah, prude.

        • @[email protected]
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          121 year ago

          Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone use the old definition of lame unless they were being intentionally antiquated, and even then, never in a way to put someone down.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 year ago

        Imagine having the privilege of so much free time that you can afford to purity test people whom you know full well are using colloquialisms.

        • Peachy [they/them] M
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          -11 year ago

          Oh sorry you’re right mods shouldn’t do anything to try and make a leftist trans space more welcoming to people 🙄 silly me. I’ll just ban anything I don’t like and abuse my power rather than wanting to have a discussion. We’ll also go back to calling things “gay” to mean undesirable because it was colloquialism. Words don’t matter, right? /s

          • @[email protected]
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            131 year ago

            When you intentionally misinterpret people and childishly insult them, as you have done to others in this thread, you debase them more than if you used a word with a “problematic” etymology because you’re attacking them directly. When you use histrionics, however, you debase yourself.

      • KSP Atlas
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        141 year ago

        “ass” used to mean donkey. Do most people use it to mean donkey now? No. Do some still? Maybe. Terms evolve, it’s a big lingusistic thing, happens in every language with speakers

      • @Ado
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        121 year ago

        good lord lmao

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          “lmao” isn’t super appreciated here. At best it’s a homophone of a word that is ableist. At worst, people are actively being ableist. You never know with the internet, we have a ton of extremely problematic people pop in and use words that mean the second option. There’s just better ways to express disbelief or calling someone socially inept.

          But yeah, dude.

        • Peachy [they/them] M
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          11 year ago

          My favorite part of 1984 was when the fascists nicely explained why something could be viewed as a problem but overall agreed with what was said.

      • Franzia
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        11 year ago

        I had to re-read this a few times, but I see what you mean. I’ll try to be more direct about what I mean to say.