Comment on Outliers

• jadero@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  New word! Thanks.

  I made a half-assed guess as to its meaning based on the fact that I’ve heard of an elite basketball player by that name. I got pretty close, according to urban dictionary.

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• Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m going to pass on that. The whole thing is a bit too sully for my taste.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Each to their own, but I may remind you that whenever your generation was growing up it’s incredibly likely that you were using words your parents didn’t use.

    I can see you’ve already been informed how language evolves, and if you can’t accept that then I don’t know what to say. I guess I could ask why you ain’t talking all Shakespearean?

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    • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lighten up, kid. Just because I chose not to partake in some flavor-of-the-week slang, doesn’t mean I’m unwilling to keep up with change.

      I’m allowed to have an opinion that it’s fucking dumb.

      And if it’s Shakespearean that you’re after….

      Verily I perpend that though mayest o’er-rauhot thine aversion to proclivity and hastily fornicate thyself with nigh but the expertly expedience of one so deserved of such an unpregnant act.

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      • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s just old legalese. If you want Shakespearean you at least have to make it look like iambic pentameter.

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hence me writing each to their own. I would have thought that conveyed that I support you right to have an opinion.

        kid

        To a 40 year old. Gee thanks buddy for the condescending tone.

        lighten up

        And goes on to say

        I’m allowed to have an opinion that it’s fucking dumb…

        Have a wonderful day. I was merely trying to point out that language changes. I tried that in a civil manner, perhaps that didn’t come across.

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      • Nelots@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        flavor-of-the-week slang

        Yeet has actually been around for multiple years now. People have been saying it since at least 2018, probably longer.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        First time I’ve seen someone use Shakespeare to say go fuck yourself. Well done.

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      • magnetosphere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hell, whether you partake or not, it’s part of the process. Slang becomes part of the language if it’s good, and it doesn’t stick if enough people think it’s dumb. Keep doing what you’re doing!

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  • Algaroth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Kobe didn’t pass.

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  • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    you must be new to the internet

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