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PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days ago

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  • HowAbt2day@futurology.today
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    17 days ago

    Brian represents that group of people that just say, “No it’s not!”, with authority. I forgot what they call themselves.

    • Mist101@lemmy.world
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      The call themselves right. But not in the sense that they’re aligned with that political ideology. They just think they’re the only correct ones and everyone… else… is… (…wait a second…).

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      Contrarians?

      • wiegell@feddit.dk
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        Contrabrians

      • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        OMG no. That’s not it! Jesus

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          17 days ago

          🤣

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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      17 days ago

      Idiots?

    • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      Confidently incorrect, to me at least.

    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      Brian?

  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
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    Who says you can’t hear tone in text?

  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    I’m too dumb to get this one…why is this funny?

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      18 days ago

      Dude’s arguing with the dictionary.

      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Like I already wrote in a different reply, that part I get, it’s the Merriam Webster response that doesn’t make sense to me.

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          So you’ve learned today that you can just say someone’s name as an equivalent to an exasperated "bro… "

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          I feel bad you’re getting down voted, because I was thinking the same thing. If the reply was just “Brian.” I suppose it would have made more sense to me. But since they tagged his full name first, it was throwing me off.

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            The difference is you’re acknowledging it now that you get it. Other person is just being deliberately obtuse. The downvotes are entirely appropriate.

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              It’s a bit refreshing to see a red arrow, tho. Gotten bored of blue.

    • Epp2@lemmynsfw.com
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      Because Merriam Webster creates and produces the dictionary of the English language. They’re literally the one who decides if a word is official. Their retort is succinct.

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        Partly right, but they don’t decide if a word is “official” (whatever that’s supposed to mean). For a word to be a so-called “real” word it only has to be in common use among some group, dictionaries simply document words that have been in common use. Merriam-Webster is an authoritative record of words in use specifically in US English (with some records for other English variants and dialects, I think? ) but they are not a prescriptivist organisation. A word which appears in their dictionary is almost certainly a word that is or was in use in US English but a word that doesn’t appear might also be a real word, particularly if it’s a relatively new word or meaning.

        So with that in mind, arguing that a word is real when it doesn’t appear in the dictionary can be valid in some cases, but arguing that a word isn’t real when it does appear in a dictionary (like Brian did) is generally not smart.

        tl;dr, a dictionary, not the dictionary; not all English; “official” doesn’t make sense here; in some (but not this) cases disagreeing is valid.

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        How is just tagging him by name, and repeating his first name succinct? I don’t get any sort of meaning from that response, it reads like a mistyped response.

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          Just imagine your mom saying your full name with an audible full stop, right after you said/did something a bit dumb

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            But it wasn’t just saying his first name. It was “First Last First”

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              Oooh, I wonder if that’s part of what’s confusing the other guy. At this point I just completely filter out the tag when I’m reading a post like this, since very few people intend to incorporate it into the comment.

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                As someone who’s managed to never use Twitter, it was very confusing. I guess it’s one of those things you pick up subconsciously and never really think about once you’ve used the system enough.

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              the ‘first last’ is just how tagging a user works.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        Nope. They document what words are in common use. English is a “form follows usage” kind of language, where popularity of a word makes it correct. That’s why “literally” can mean its own antonym and influencers get to make up new meanings for Fetch and Mid.

        Less architectural, more suicide note.

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          They did say “official” though.

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          This is true, they describe themselves as descriptive rather than prescriptive: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/descriptive-vs-prescriptive-defining-lexicography

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    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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      Merriam-Webster is literally the dictionary, and Brian is trying to correct them on what is and is not a word.

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        Yes that part I get, but I don’t get the reply from the Merriam Webster account and why that is funny

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          Because they’re being like “bro please, come on“

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            Huh…what they actually write in the response in no way suggests that to me, it’s just completely nonsensical like they started typing the response but accidentally hit send too soon and just didn’t bother fixing it.

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              Well, then you learned something new today. Be glad and enjoy your enlightenment 🤗

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              The punctuation is pretty clear tho.

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              Mom: Ok, let’s get in the car time to go.

              Child named Brian: But there is no car.

              Mom: Brian!

              • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                You’ve excellently demonstrated how different contexts makes different things work…you scenario has no similarities to the image

                • dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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                  @[email protected] ExcessShiv.

                • topherclay@lemmy.world
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                  You can’t act like a precise robot that is always right and also beep your red sirens when other people are seeing humor that you don’t see. If you’re being a robot then chances are you are wrong about the jokes.

                  In this case the juxtaposition of the natural in-person way of speaking and the unnatural asynchronous text chat if twitter is the source of the humor. When you say that the two scenarios are not similar, that is part of the engine that drives the joke and makes it funny. It’s as if you see shutting everyone down for misunderstanding that it was not a sports bar but in fact a metal pipe that the two men walked into when the one man ducked.

                • And009@lemmynsfw.com
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                  Needs context for it to work

                • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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                  I think you were correct in your top comment

                  It’s a joke. You don’t get it.

                  That’s okay

                • Bo7a@lemmy.ca
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                  I am merely intending to show how ‘just saying someone’s name’ can be taken as a reprimand/mild reproach. Which is what is happening in the original image.

                  At this point so many people have explained this that I feel you might be willfully ignorant. Cut it out.

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              Mate, I felt the same way. Made no sense to me. Give me an “…” or something.

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              ExcessShiv.

            • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
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              Dude.

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                Outstanding

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          Their response is “Brian…”. Like “let me hold your hand whole I say this”

          It looks weird because they tagged him first

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        Although it is an American dictionary, so it’s only going to be correct some of the time.

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        Alternatively, he’s saying that these are not in fact unprecedented times.

  • purrtastic@lemmy.nz
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    I am whelmed by this exchange

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      I’m somewhat gruntled

      • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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        I am the-moon.

      • Match!!@pawb.social
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        This whole exchange is tressing.

        • Die Martin Die@sh.itjust.works
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          It’s perfectly cromulent

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            I’m pretty ert right now.

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              This is so turbing.

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      Ok Robin

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      I’m frankly plussed.

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      whelm /wĕlm, hwĕlm/
      transitive verb

      1. To cover with water; submerge.
      2. To overwhelm.
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        OP wants to let you know that this exchange made them wet ☝️🤓

        • Victor@lemmy.world
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          Everything reminds me of her.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Technically correct (still the best kind of correct). However, the meaning has changed a but due to the word’s falling into disuse. Colloquially, it is now used as a mid-point between overwhelmed and underwhelmed, describing a situation as a mundane experience. Not disappointing, too stimulating, or even satisfying; just neutral (“Tell my wife I said ‘Hello’”).

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    Is he arguing with fhe dictionary?!!wtf

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      My opinion is that once someone invents a word, it exists forever, even if it’s later marked as obsolete/archaic.

      Conversely, just because the dictionary doesn’t have a word, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

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        GRRK (pronounced with rolled Rs)

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        Yeah, I can say all manner of things like bork and twiddledee, but I don’t think I can get marblegargler to stick.

        Unless a meme picks it up or is in at least the urban dictionary, it doesn’t count.

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          Fiddlesticks. “marblegargler” is perfectly cromulent. ;)

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        Many words are forgotten, so I disagree with that they exist forever.

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        I agree but he is saying the opposite lol

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    In what was almost certainly a precedented move, Brian was wrong.

    And so is my spell-checker.

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    people don’t understand how lexicons work. imagine thinking the dictionary gets to decide what is and isn’t a word… go blork yourselves

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      Imagine thinking Brian Tarbell Brian gets to decide

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      Except precedented is definitely a word that is used, particularly in the legal field, so the dictionary would definitely win that argument.

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        A couple of decades in the future the addition of “Presidented” to American English (verb: to arbitrarily make a declaration or issue an order, implicitly illegally) will really confuse things

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          That’s Presidential vs Unpresidential

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      If you lean towards descriptivism, it would be extremely strange to tell another group that their word with citable usage isn’t real.

      If you lean towards prescriptivism, then Merriam-Webster is literally the dictionary.

      Brian doesn’t have a leg to stand on for either side.

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        I mean, I am going to presume he has two legs to stand on.

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          OrgunDonor.

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    I’m more of a Wictionary guy, myself.

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      Is that a dictionary for witches? Or did you misspell wiktionary?

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    whoever runs their social media types pure fire.

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