• MxM111@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

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

    • Rodeo
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      9 months ago

      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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        9 months ago

        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.

        • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works
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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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            9 months ago

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

          • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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            9 months ago

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

            I’m in.

        • samus12345@lemmy.world
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          Depends. A show taking place in the 80s where the kids are saying “poggers” and “rizz” would be pretty jarring.

          • crawancon@lemm.ee
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            9 months ago

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

  • Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I propose a slight edit:

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

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    9 months ago

    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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    9 months ago

    This was brilliant! Loved it.