No because I’m not a proud antisemite despite some people’s use of the word
Ok I won’t search that one. Explain please
Antisemitism has be co-opted and applied to any and all criticism of Israel, as opposed to it’s previous meaning, hatred of Jews/Judaism. This isn’t strictly because the meaning of the word is being used differently as much as it is that proponents of Israel like to conflate Israel with all of Judaism, or even more broadly with all Jews (as an ethnic group as opposed to a religious one). Since Israel takes any criticism to be hatred, the inevitable consequence is that criticism of Israel becomes antisemitism. I’m splitting hairs here and probably making things more complicated than they need to be… But hopefully you understand what I’m getting at.
Incidentally, even in its more broadly accepted definition “antisemitism” itself is a bit of an etymological oddity, because “Semites”, or the Semitic people, are both Jews, Arabs and others… Judaeophobia is an alternative that is unquestionably specific to Jews/Judaism.
Well as a Germany I have to be very careful what I say about this topic.
Let’s first make clear that the Israeli government and Jews are not the same entity.
Then let me state that I don’t care about your religion you can believe in what you want.
Now I can say that I don’t agree with the current actions of Israeli government in this war.
Antisemitism should always be the word for the racism against Jews. When people call you that for criticising war actions of the Israeli government then ignore them or give them the Wikipedia article for the word.
Yeah Germany especially are treating terribly their protesting population who don’t want to see children being murdered en masse by a state. Which is HORRIBLY IRONIC.
Antisemitism should always be the word for the racism against Jews
Nope. Not even that. [(Open to hearing any reasoning why though.)]
Like was just said [nearly well enough (because not all of them)] in what you replied to:
Incidentally, even in its more broadly accepted definition “antisemitism” itself is a bit of an etymological oddity, because “Semites”, or the Semitic people, are both Jews, Arabs and others… Judaeophobia is an alternative that is unquestionably specific to Jews/Judaism.
Imagine how nice it’d be if we mended language, undoing the Orwellianisms. We’d be able to communicate.
Well I just don’t like that the meaning gets washed out by this black white thinking. Either you are pro Israel or you are antisemitic.
Yes language changes. And I now don’t want to talk about this anymore. I can’t do shit about it and it depresses me.
There’s something you can do. You shall seek it, find it, and do it.
Even if it’s just averting the lie within the lie, and avoiding the language of the oppressor that spreads not just the lie, but the lie within the lie.
Not in programming languages.
Unlike humans, the entities who process those aren’t capable of mentally compensating on the fly for deviations from the standard so “wrong words” are immediately punished and can’t proliferate.
Those just invent new frameworks every six months which everyone should totally use this new framework, for reasons. Though, maybe that’s just JavaScript.
Any where they they let you define your own function are asking for trouble.
def add(a,b){ return(a-b) }
I think you need to use assembly code to stop this b.s.
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ok here’s three examples of exactly what the meme is referring to:
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“Awful” originally meant “awe-inspiring” or “full of awe,” but frequent use to mean “very bad” eventually became the standard modern meaning.
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“Peruse” traditionally meant “to read carefully,” but common casual use to mean “to skim or browse” has become widespread enough that dictionaries now record both senses.
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“Nimrod” started as the name of a skilled biblical hunter, but repeated ironic use as an insult (for example, in cartoons… “Bugs Bunny”) led to its accepted modern sense of “fool” or “idiot.”
Language changes. Words mean what we say they mean since its all made up anyway.
The word that always comes to mind is ‘literally’ which has come to mean ‘figuratively, but with emphasis’ and it drives me nuts - because it removes the word we have to say ‘this is a thing that you might assume is figurative, but it’s not, it actually happened’.
I was going to be that one in my list but I literally hate using the word …. 😉
Allow me to introduce you to my favorite portmanteau, “legiterally”
Okay, that’s actually kinda great.
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¿ Por Que No Los Dos ?
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Ignorance of what? It seems that if you’re using a word the same way your sub culture uses a word, it’s correct. Or rather that words can only be used correctly within a context.
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Memes are supposed to be funny
That’s not true, which is exactly why this is a good meme. The word meme was originally coined as a conceptual analogue to the word "gene*. Ideas spread and evolve, just like genes. Only in the last 15 years or so has it come to mean internet joke, and this is the direct result of people using the word in a different way than it was intended to be used. It doesn’t matter what word the OP had in mind when they made this meme (though gif is the most likely candidate), it’s accurate and relevant.
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Oh, so you just don’t even understand the meme, now I get why you’re so upset! I recommend starting by reading the words left-to-right, top-to-bottom. If you don’t know how to pronounce one, just do your best. You can also ask an adult to help you, if there’s one nearby.
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facts about natural processes don’t need “justification”
rage bait
that’s in the eye of the beholder & Y U MAD, THO?
Literally.
That’s dumb (which originally meant “mute” or “unable to speak”)
I literally love and hate this comment.
Lol, I came here to make this exact comment
Well. Sort of.
Some terminology is better defined by how the relevant experts use it. It’s singular and precise definition is required for any useful dialogue. If 99% of people call a kidney a liver but doctors call it a kidney its a kidney.
Some terminology evolves and is used differently by different groups. Sometimes the more illiterate group flattens the language by removing nuance or even entirely removing a concept from a language with no replacement. Arguably both definitions may be common usage but one is worse and using it means you are.
Some word usage just becomes so common everyone even generational gaps understand it. If you talk to an 18 or a 65 year old and say the word blowjob, they both know what you mean, yet they aren’t out their blowing on dicks or trying to force air up urethras… Hopefully…
Hopes dashed. It’s not common, but there are some people who have the right combination of circumstances to make them think blowjobs involve the movement of air.
I feel like people forget that words can have multiple definitions. You can have a technical definition and a popular definition
Ok ok… I’ll be the one…
“Wrongly”
Incidentally, I really hate that the UK expression for when someone is feeling sick is “poorly”.
It’s got the “ly” ending which is one of the clear signs of an adverb, and in other contexts it is used as an adverb. But, for some reason the British have turned it into an adjective meaning sick. Sometimes they use it in a way where it can be seen as an adverb: “He’s feeling poorly”, in which case it seems to be modifying “feeling”. In the North American dialect you could substitute the adjective “sick”: “He’s feeling sick”. But, other times they say “She won’t be coming in today, she’s poorly”. What is the adverb modifying there, “is”?
Washing-up fluid.
Washing up what?
Dishes?
Dishwasher fluid.
Why fluid, not liquid? Air is a fluid too. Is it in gaseous form?
Also, why “washing-up”? Was “washing” not enough? Was a direction strictly necessary?
no worries I’ll use it the wrongliest
You can always go wrongliester!
Good wrongliesterness.
I’ll use it righteously.
not not-heinous
I’m gonna use it wrongteously
Think different
Some flat adverbs sound perfectly natural to most speakers, like “play nice” or “drive safe”. Others have less acceptability among people in general, like “That tastes real good.”
I don’t even see “nice” in “play nice” as an adverb. You could switch “play” for “be” – “be nice”, same with “be safe”.
There’s that old line that if my aunt had wheels she’d be a bicycle. Maybe the command form is muddling the topic here, but using the be-verb with an adjective like that attaches a subject complement, essentially describing the subject. But “I am fast” describing a person doesn’t mean that saying “I drive fast” is describing a drive as a noun.
Tastes real goodly.
He wrongly assumed he was using the word wrongly.
Very bigly, indeed!
And I’m still gonna bitch about it if they’ve reduced the usefulness of a word due to habitual misuse!
Everyone has to agree tho.
Don’t be one of these dickheads that defines shit their own way then gets upset when nobody agrees with your dumbass. There’s quite a few people like that here on Lemmy and I find them to be the single most annoying type of user on this site.
Yeah TRVE, making a point of intentionally being dumb usually means you’re an insufferable cvnt
Minor gripe - it’s not right to say that everyone has to agree, but it is sensible to point out that one person has no real basis for having unique meanings for terms and then reacting poorly when others fail to use them.
Every word had an evolution or hard origin, and each stepping stone on those journeys had some first user. By whatever means, some of those new words or new tweaks on existing words caught on and spread.
And sometimes, despite generally widespread acceptance of a change or a new word, some folks will bitterly hold on to the old ways for years or decades until they just die wrong about it.
It’s better to use words correctly, but in ways that call your understanding of the definition into question.
“I hacked into my sister’s facebook when she left it open on her laptop.”
“In an act of philanthropy I gave George the rest of my fries.”
“Mr. Hands died for his passion, a modern day saint.”
“Tiamat is a Bad Dragon.”
“Everyone” meaning the social media someone and their social set get their info and cues from, not the rest of the people around them.
“Everyone” meaning folks off-line who you feel the urge to keep correcting because you got hounded by grammar nazis on the internet and now the “correct” meaning is branded into your skull.
Not for philosophical or scientific terminology.
- I imagine you’re using “everyone” wrong.
- Not necessarily so. Use your imagination.
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It just shows how little society is anchored in reason. And people wonder why politicians don’t take them serious. People who can’t maintain structure and are easily swayed by group think can be made to believe anything.
Honestly, I could care less about this shit.
I literally don’t give a shit
And I don’t want any of your shit.
I grew up on dairy farm and it was one of my chores to shove the shit and then spread that shit nearly everyday. So I’ve had enough shit. I’m so done with that shit and the assholes it came out of. And I don’t need anyone giving me shit anymore either.
So you just keep your shit to yourself.
Cow shit’s not that bad.
Don’t tell me that’s bullshit.
I have walked in that shit, slipped in that shit, I have even fallen in that shit. Cow shit smells and tastes just as bad as the finest Bull shit. And that bullshit is mixed into that cow shit and the two can’t be separated. No matter how hard you try. And I ain’t dealing with any shit anymore for whatever time is left of my life.
But, I do like drinking my Daily Duck Shit. I have a cup of it right now. I love drinking my Daily Duck Shit and I always try to keep it on hand.
****For those that aren’t fairly deep into Chinese Oolong teas, Duck Shit, “Ya Shi Xiang”, is type of Dan-Cong Oolong tea. You can google Duck Shit tea and get at least one origin story. They are fun stories.
Do you care a lot or only a little?
I told you, I could care less! It’s a moot point!
But, how much less could you care? Alot less?
Ah, my favourite.
Gets my brain scrambling for what caring less than zero could be.
Negative care…
Turtles.
I can’t tell if you’re using this idiomatic expression in the wrong way on purpose for a great joke, or in an annoying, unaware way. 😅
Its obviously a joke.
But maybe you understood that and your comment is sarcastic as well. So now I am the one being woooshed.
Like aks instead of ask? The Internet tried hard to convince me, but I’m still not convinced, sorry!
Looks like aks was the original pronunciation
It’s called “metathesis”. We did it over hundreds of years with ‘bird’ which was originally ‘brid’ or ‘bridd’, and ‘wasp’ which was originally ‘waps’, apparently.
I thought “wasp” came from the Norman word “wespe” (French word guespe then later guêpe), but is that not true? Or do we just not know and these are possible explanations but there is no consensus?
So, disclaimer here that I’m not a linguist, I just enjoy learning about linguistics.
OED doesn’t have a Norman ancestor for English wasp - it goes back through Old English (wæfs, wæps, wæsp) to Saxon and Middle German/Dutch all the way back to pre-Germanic.
My guess here was that there’s a common Proto-Indo-European ancestor and Wiktionary, FWIW, agrees - they provide a reconstructed P.I.E word: *wóbʰseh₂ (“wasp”)
ETA: here’s the link to the OED online’s etymology page and a screenshot of it if you don’t have access through your library.
I will be using bird and wasps, thank you very much
That’s…my point?
In German it’s also Wespe, but in my local Austrian dialect it’s pronounced Wepsn. Very interesting, I didn’t know that shift had happened (or I guess not happened) elsewhere.
