VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 10 days agoSociety keeps changing the definition of normal wordsdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square197linkfedilinkarrow-up11.25Karrow-down110
arrow-up11.24Karrow-down1imageSociety keeps changing the definition of normal wordsdiscuss.onlineVetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 10 days agomessage-square197linkfedilink
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down6·10 days ago‘Goon’ still means Henchman. Don’t let the vapid famewhore influencerati dictate language changes. Laugh at their obvious inability and keep being you.
minus-squareTheSlad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 days agoWtf are you talking about? Also, language is a social construct and words change meaning all the time. They can also mean more than one thing…
minus-squareWhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 days agoHogwash! (I meant that as in I agree)
minus-squareprotist@retrofed.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 days ago Vapid famewhore influencerati Are you trying to dictate language changes? I laugh at your obvious inability
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoI guess we can still use ‘mooks’ for that.
minus-squaresigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days ago vapid famewhore influencerati Bro thought he mogged. Bro typed this and thought, “ts tuff”. Bro’s on the Canadian instance and doesn’t even know “goon” is a hockey term in Canada. (this is me showing my “obvious inability”…whatever that means)
‘Goon’ still means Henchman.
Don’t let the vapid famewhore influencerati dictate language changes. Laugh at their obvious inability and keep being you.
Wtf are you talking about? Also, language is a social construct and words change meaning all the time. They can also mean more than one thing…
Hogwash! (I meant that as in I agree)
Are you trying to dictate language changes? I laugh at your obvious inability
I guess we can still use ‘mooks’ for that.
Bro thought he mogged. Bro typed this and thought, “ts tuff”.
Bro’s on the Canadian instance and doesn’t even know “goon” is a hockey term in Canada.
(this is me showing my “obvious inability”…whatever that means)