• Phil_in_here
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    6 days ago

    It’s “we all shipped them together”. That’s the part that makes no clear sense.

    Does “them” refer to to bride, groom, or both as a couple? What’s a group of groomsmen ‘all shipping her/him/the couple together’ mean?! Is it an auto-correct for something else? Was she a mail-order bride they paid the shipping for? Did they all ship out in the military? Did they ship them off to somewhere like on a vacation? Or, eventually, did they cockney slang metaphorically put them in a package together?

    There literal meaning of the word “shipped” really obscures the meaning for, what I assume, us non-tiktok folk haven’t pickup up in the recent months.

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      6 days ago

      “We assumed they would form a relationship.” > “We relationshipped them.” > “We shipped them.”

      I’m in my 50s but cracking this code ain’t rocket surgery.

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        Idiocracy is in full effect. Sadly, punctuation is not. Or is it “punked” now? Is that cringe?

        • Soup@lemmy.world
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          God, I hope you’re a hundred years old and suffering from mental degradation ‘cause anything else is hugely depressing.

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            Nope. Modern juvenile internet slang is just incredibly lazy, and “cringe.”

            I don’t have a problem with it used socially in person, but written communication should be intelligible. Preferably, without vocal fry, or Valley Girl gibberish.

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              It’s perfectly intelligible, you’re just an idiot. I’d say sorry you had to find out this way but I don’t think you actually learned anything from this experience.

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                Aww, look at Junior, thinking that condescension is awesome.

                You keep being you, Hero, in your mind.

                • Soup@lemmy.world
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                  This simply has to be the moment I take off because you’re either a very sad person who finds trolling fun or so beyond stupid there is nothing that can be done for you. I’ll leave it at this:

                  Ahem. You literally started this by being condescending and continued by jerking yourself off over it.

                  • Merva@sh.itjust.works
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                    What a toxic person you are. Every single comment you have made in this thread are condescending and abusive. Your taking off is being generally applauded.

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                    I care about your opinion very much. It’s very important to me. I’m saddened by your disappointment in me. Truly.

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      To “ship” is a term largely originating in internet fan fiction circles. It is short for “relationship” but usually means a non-canon relationship which the writer likes to imagine or portray two people being in. Typically chosen because the author believes those characters are a great match for each other despite no such relationship existing in the source material.

      So this story is about how the best man used to always imagine as if the now bride-and-groom were in a relationship before they officially announced any relationship, or before they realised that they even wanted one themselves, because they seemed like such a good match.

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          I can definitely understand how that might have come to be, given the prolific amount of queer shipping that goes on in fanfics :)

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      From context I think it’s pretty clear that they meant they fit well together. He made that statement and then right after explained a situation that enforces what he meant. Paraphrasing: “we shipped them together. Before they made it official. (so we knew before hand, what else could that mean? They’re at a wedding.) he scoffed at the idea. (he didn’t think they fit together, while his friends did.)”

    • Soup@lemmy.world
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      Bro just admit you don’t understand the slang and ask, now you look extra ignorant when you could have instead learned an incredibly popular term and moved on with your life. You living under a rock isn’t everyone else’s problem.

      “Shipped” is short for “relationship”. It comes from fanfics where people would put characters in relationships they weren’t otherwise in in the original media. Turn “relationship” into a verb, shorten it, and bam, you’re there.