• DreamButt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Calling someone belligerent is general done as an insult. So yes in typical Wiki fashion they are technically using the word correctly. But if read with connotation then it reads more like “here’s the list of assholes.”

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      1 year ago

      That is what the word is for. It is an insult because you are calling someone confrontational

    • BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Okay I don’t agree because well. Beligerants basically means aggressive person/nation/etc. But if we don’t use beligerant what would you use instead?

      • DreamButt@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I think you misunderstand. I’m not saying the usage is wrong. I’m saying if you read the page in the same way people casually speak then it’s funny

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          1 year ago

          I think you misunderstand. The way Wikipedia uses the word is the original usage, so only funny if you don’t know about it. Applying it to bar fights and such is the tongue-in-cheek usage.

          From Latin belligerans (“waging war”), present active participle of belligerō (“I wage war”), from belliger (“waging war, warlike”), from bellum (“war”) + -ger (from gerō (“I lead, wage, carry on”)).

          • DreamButt@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            I’m not saying the usage is wrong.

            But thank you for googling something I already looked up before posting my original comment. I genuinely don’t understand why people on this platform think they have authority on how language can be used and interpreted. It’s exhausting