• MxM111
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    318 months ago

    Of course I can distinguish the words, I just don’t know their meaning, and it bugs me.

    • @[email protected]
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      118 months ago

      Etymology is not just the meaning of words but their history. How they were coined and what they meant at different times in the past.

      • @[email protected]
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        88 months ago

        I always wondered how hardcore etymologists (?) feel watching certain history shows or sci-fi knowing that there’s no way they could be using certain words or phrases.

        • @[email protected]
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          118 months ago

          I assume it’s roughly the same feeling programmers get when some TV character “creates a GUI interface using visual basic to track the killer’s IP address.”

          • @[email protected]
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            68 months ago

            I’m an IT dude (part software dev, part network admin) and I like etymology. Can confirm.

          • xigoi
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            58 months ago

            smashes two keyboards at once, causing green-on-black HTML code to appear in the reflection in sunglasses

            I’m in.

        • @samus12345
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          38 months ago

          Depends. A show taking place in the 80s where the kids are saying “poggers” and “rizz” would be pretty jarring.

  • ivanafterall
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    248 months ago

    It’s a classic epidemiological failure to appropriately organize one’s knowledge and information.

  • @Lord_ToRA
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    • @Th3D3k0y
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      38 months ago

      Or with accent… I can’t even buggin to put into words

  • @Etterra
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    68 months ago

    I actually did make that mistake IRL exactly once.

  • rhsJack
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    38 months ago

    I didnt want to upvote you. I really didnt. But my parents raised me better. I am upvoting because its good optics in the neighorhood.