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SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year agoIt might be, but I’ve only ever seen it used in the condecending way. And it seems to be like this used for quite some time
Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year agoIt might be, but I’ve only ever seen it used in the condecending way. And it seems to be like this used for quite some time
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Can’t argue with real-world use, but man that is a semantic shift that is doing the original word dirty.
Apparently patronage and other forms of the word are having their definitions affected, too.
I read a lot of books so I’m definitely a lot more used to how words are used up to several decades ago.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
yup. language is weird
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
Welcome to humanity since the invention of language