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2/3/2026 4:04:58 AM
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Old man rant
Ok why are people adding new meanings to words or inventing new words it's a pain in the -blam!-.
English is comprehensive enough as it is words don't need new meanings and I don't wanna have to Google slang like seriously just stop teach your dam kids to not add more meanings to words or make new slang or anything dumb like that some of us are to old for that crap.
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#Offtopic
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The irony in this post while saying "pain in the -blam!-". Thought yoi were on some gay shi[i]t[/i]
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Three wars back we called sauerkraut, "liberty cabbage," and we called liberty cabbage, "super slaw." And back then, we call a suitcase was known as a, "Swedish Lunchbox." Of course, nobody knew that but me. Anyway, "long story short," is a phrase whose origins are complicated and rambling.
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1 ReplyHow about just how neutered language has become in just the dumbest of ways. Like you can't say "kill" anymore, now you have to say "unalive" because you'll get in trouble in certain parts of the Internet and such. Which is just absolutely ridiculous because even if you do switch to "unalive" what's the point exactly? You're trying to get the same point across just in a more ridiculous way. As a semi-recent example in Andor Season 2 a female character gets assaulted and thankfully ends up killing the assaulter before anything serious could happen. She ends up exclaiming "He tried to -blam- me". It was a serious moment that showed just how evil and vile the Empire was. [spoiler]There was nothing explicit and was more akin to a fist fight[/spoiler] A bunch of Star Wars fans found this upsetting and instead opted for a "space word" that could replace the word because reasons...
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Language does that. Always has; always will. That’s why we don’t talk Shakespearean English anymore.
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Shoutout to Mr Cenat and tiktok for destroying the language of a whole generation 🙏💔
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I studied linguistics. And if you feel this way, boy howdy, do I have some bad news for you. Popular usage has always dictated the direction of language and there was never a time language was static. Ever. The poor French have been fighting the encroachment of popular usage harder than just about anyone and even they’re forced to concede that the public and how they speak determines what words are and how language changes as a result. Even if the institutions don’t like it. That’s why the same language can be different across dialects or regions. And why the plurals for some types of words seem inconsistent. And that’s not even taking into account Latin versus Greek roots. Meanings evolve and change. Languages merge. There were three separate grammar guides that came out just in the time I was in college and the writers are constantly arguing over what “correct” looks like. But you’re in good company. People have been making this same complaint since Chaucer was penning his tales. And most people today can’t distinguish between Old and Middle English now. So take heart, one day the distinction between your vernacular and that of the youths will also be completely lost as well and people will throw them all together in a mixed bag of “old timey”. Good times!
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6 RepliesThat’s kind of just how language works. Lamguage isn’t a static, unchanging thing. It’s always evolving, and it’ll never stop evolving.
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I empathize, it seems like every day a new term/phrase is coined and it's usually stupid.
