• notabot@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Faggots can also be meatballs, you can walk in to a supermarket and buy some faggots, or make them yourself.

    The use to mean “a bundle of sticks” is definitely more rare now-a-days though, you’re correct.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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      2 days ago

      Like I said, using the UK is cheating (I guess I should have specified that). I can take a walk down Butthole Lane, look up the bus schedule from Shitterton to Twatt, and then I can go pick up 6 faggots for £1.60. It’s all just part of the nature of the place.

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        17 hours ago

        I’m sorry, using the place where English came from as an example of modern English usage is somehow against some imaginary rule of argument? What a take.

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              13 hours ago

              I am clearly just talking nonsense. I actually didn’t know that meatballs were called that in the UK, so I guess it’s perfectly legit. There actually was a big rift in the Scrabble community, decades ago, about using the British official word list versus the American official word list, and apparently they’ve more or less standardized on a combined list that includes all the words on both. So anything in British English is completely fair game, which may to be fair explain why some of the words that aren’t real friendly in the US are still on there.