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retrolasered@lemmy.zip to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't put into words.

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The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't put into words.

retrolasered@lemmy.zip to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    relevant XKCD

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      There will come the day where humankind abandons traditional language and embraces comunicating only via relevant XKCD comics

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        The students, this years records destroyed

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          Shaka, when the walls fell.

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        You know Randall is going to make that meta comic

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      How is there so many relevant xkcds

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    Of course I can distinguish the words, I just don’t know their meaning, and it bugs me.

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      Etymology is not just the meaning of words but their history. How they were coined and what they meant at different times in the past.

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        I always wondered how hardcore etymologists (?) feel watching certain history shows or sci-fi knowing that there’s no way they could be using certain words or phrases.

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          I assume it’s roughly the same feeling programmers get when some TV character “creates a GUI interface using visual basic to track the killer’s IP address.”

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            I’m an IT dude (part software dev, part network admin) and I like etymology. Can confirm.

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            smashes two keyboards at once, causing green-on-black HTML code to appear in the reflection in sunglasses

            I’m in.

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          Depends. A show taking place in the 80s where the kids are saying “poggers” and “rizz” would be pretty jarring.

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            you have to have some yarbels to get me gulliver to watch 80s baffoonery.

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    It’s a classic epidemiological failure to appropriately organize one’s knowledge and information.

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      Or with accent… I can’t even buggin to put into words

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    Ask your ant, or your ankle

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    I actually did make that mistake IRL exactly once.

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    I didnt want to upvote you. I really didnt. But my parents raised me better. I am upvoting because its good optics in the neighorhood.

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    This was brilliant! Loved it.

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