The Picard Maneuver to Microblog MemesEnglish • 7 months agoBut can you imagine if it were?imagemessage-square10arrow-up1526arrow-down115
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minus-squarekubicalinkfedilink15•7 months agoYounger me would agree 100% in changing the meaning of the word to be what everyone expects it to be.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•7 months agoYounger me? I’d want to change the meaning of that word to this now even at my current age.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoBut then you lose great puns, which are half the reason English is such a great language. Consider “American Idiot”: Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn’t meant to be okay. The song works significantly better by using a pun, to say that it’s a nation of the alienated.
minus-square@HolyhandgrenadelinkEnglish1•7 months agoI was doing research on alien cults for a podcast I host, and I found a scholarly article on why people resist alien rule. Turns out it was about people’s dislike for being ruled by foreign nations.
Younger me would agree 100% in changing the meaning of the word to be what everyone expects it to be.
Younger me? I’d want to change the meaning of that word to this now even at my current age.
right now you’re older you’s “younger me”
But then you lose great puns, which are half the reason English is such a great language. Consider “American Idiot”:
Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
The song works significantly better by using a pun, to say that it’s a nation of the alienated.
I was doing research on alien cults for a podcast I host, and I found a scholarly article on why people resist alien rule.
Turns out it was about people’s dislike for being ruled by foreign nations.