Comment on What started “weirdo” as a slur just recently?
infinite_ass@leminal.space 1 week ago
I just recently heard it used that way. To describe “conservatives”. Much loke “yikes” I guess. They assign a new meaning to it and thus it is so.
Words are different these days. Like, words used to have a secondhand association with reality. But now it’s thirdhand.
cheers_queers@lemm.ee 1 week ago
language evolves with every generation. this isn’t new
infinite_ass@leminal.space 1 week ago
Language evolves with every generation, yes. But I offered something different from that.
I offered that the relationship between word and thing was becoming more tenuous. Like two telephones drawing further apart. The conversation breaking up.
We talk less about reality now. We talk more about talking.
ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social 1 week ago
And how is calling conservatives “weird” how you describe?
Compared to conservatives calling anything left of them “communist”, calling a party backing a felon president and a vice president that can’t even make small talk at a doughnut store “weird” is very fitting.
infinite_ass@leminal.space 1 week ago
Ugh. Too emotional. Too rhetorical.