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• rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think about this kind of thing too often. Take “chlamydia” and “genocide”. Two words with horrible meanings, but they’re really nice words. Flowery and regal. They sound like Victorian girls’s names. “Cousin Peter arrived, with his lovely daughters, Chlamydia and Genocide”.

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  afloof

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• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aloof isn’t negative. Just completely unaffected by all the bullshit around them. There is nothing negative about not giving a fuck.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For so long I thought that it meant “silly” or “whimsical” only to find it means “stoic” or “emotionally cold and distant.”

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  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bemused is another one novel writers get wrong pretty consistently. It means confused, or bewildered, not amused.

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  • illi@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For so long I thought that it meant “silly” or “whimsical”

    TIL it’s not that

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• remon@ani.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So where is the negative?

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