• @[email protected]
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    Slay because my 10 year uses it for everything. Slayalicious, slaytastic, slayme…

    Nag. Just sounds harsh

    Bungalow. Should be obvious.

    People who shorten food names aren’t doing English any favors…

    'za (Pizza), taters, sgetti, nanners, gnosh (im hungry I need some gnosh gnosh)

    • @[email protected]
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      Phonetically, 'za should be short for lasagne, and 'sa for pizza… or people can just say the damn words.

      Whatever, I guess. Peeps gon’ slang slang, for real, for real. 🤦‍♂️

  • idunnololz
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    biweekly, bimonthly, etc.

    Wtf does it mean? Twice a week? Every two weeks? Who knows. What’s the point of this word when it’s so ambiguous.

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      Twice a time period. Semi for every two time periods. So every two weeks is semiweekely. However it gets misused so often you almost always have to check making it almost useless.

      Similar to failsafe vs redundant.

      • @[email protected]
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        Frustratingly enough, it’s the other way around. Biweekly is every two weeks, semi weekly is two times a week.

        I remember it like this:

        • bicycles are two circles, biweekly is two weeks
        • semicircles are half a circle, semiweekly is half a week

        But yes, people use the words interchangeably so often that it’s faster just to avoid the problem altogether and just say “every two weeks”.

    • @[email protected]
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      In the UK we have the word “fortnight” for two weeks, which helps. I also found out very recently that “biannual” mean twice a year and “biennial” means every other year so, yeah, fuck knows.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s unfortunate - I like the concept of people talking about bundles of sticks, or slang for cigarettes. But the negative usage so dwarfs those cases that they’re really no longer legitimate

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      With some specific exceptions, for me. If you are one, and you aren’t using it against others, it’s fine. Like storytelling and describing a conversation, or just even being playful about it. Maybe being at a store with some friends looking at clothes or something, describing yourself and how something looks perhaps? Totally fine in my book. That’s our term, we should be able to reclaim it for ourselves.

      But someone else who I don’t know and can’t immediately determine the meaning/context that uses it? Bitch you about to die.

      • moonlight
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        I don’t know. I think reclaiming slurs can be a good thing, (queer, for example), but that one is inherently violent and I always feel uncomfortable when I hear it. Like, there’s a reason you didn’t write it out in your comment.

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          Fair. I didn’t type it since I don’t want to be that guy like ‘you mean [word]’. It’s very context sensitive yeah, but I think it’s okay in the right moment.

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      Off-topic:
      I’m always tempted to write it out. The word is in everybody’s mind while we read the text. It gets so powerful if people decide to talk around it. But if the context is not hurtful, it’s just a word. Nothing happens. It becomes an insult if the mind of the one who says it or the one who reads it decides to make it one.
      Plus the assholes who use it as a slur will say it anyway. We’re not achieving anything by erasing it from our bubble.
      Well, that’s what I think about it. :)

    • The House of Olivier EUOP
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      I do agree. That word is harsh to see, to hear. I have never liked it. Even between gays, I don’t use it at all.

  • @[email protected]
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    When people call sex “breeding”.

    It sounds like some puritanical shit where they believe that sex is only for procreation.

    • Midnight Wolf
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      I uh… I’m not sure what your source is, but for mine ‘breeding’ is anything but “only for procreation”

      E: in case it isn’t painfully obvious, I am le gay, so that may factor into your source woes :p

    • Phoenixz
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      I’d say that is more about a kink than anything remotely religious

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          Why?

          I can point out a whole collection of really creepy kinks. This is just a word that is normally used for when two animals produce offspring, so let’s use it for people shagging, makes it more animalistic.

          I really don’t see the problem with this one but if you want real kina to blink twenty times, look into vore or guro

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          I’ve known a few people who used “breeding” as a kink word and I’m like motherfuckers i raised four kids it’s not a fucking kink, it’s a lifelong occupation.

    • @[email protected]
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      I only use “breeding” to refer disparagingly to the actions of those who believe that having kids is mandatory or, at least, unavoidable.

    • The House of Olivier EUOP
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      It is, maybe, something very particular as I am not familiar with that term used through “Puritanical thingy”. Sorry, I am located in Europe and lack of knowledge about Puritans 😬 [ANSWER RECEIVED]

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        [ANSWER RECEIVED]

        Did you look them up? That’s basically what most of the mainstream US churches are based off of.

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          I had to as I am not (like veeeerrry far away) familiar at all with any mainstream US churches phrases. At least, I have learnt something new

  • xep
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    Can’t pick just one so here’re a couple.

    “Crypto” used in the context of cryptocurrrencies. “AI”, referring only to LLMs. “Research”, referring to an indeterminate amount of reading up on the topic at hand, such as in the phrase “do your own research” that’s being bandied around in some communities.

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      “AI”, referring only to LLMs.

      Yeah, it’s annoying because there are a lot of legit image recognition and pattern matching applications in my work field, and I need to ask for clarification every time someone says “AI”.

      Like, is this actually useful, or do you mean “we asked ChatGPT to generate you 20% nonsense”?

  • Call Me M.
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    “literally” and “like”

    …because it’s literally used like every two words

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      Like literally like oh my gawd did you see that basic bitch with last year’s iPhone pro max ultra deluxe special edition? I’m totally unfolloeing her on everything

      it’s literally the day after the release of the new model

  • carbonari_sandwich
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    I’ve come to hate “Utilize.” It has a decent purpose as “using to the fullest extent,” or, “making do with something in a new context.”

    Instead, I just hear it as a replacement for “use” when someone wants to sound smart.

  • @[email protected]
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    Penultimate. Anyone writing about or reviewing the second last of anything uses it in their first breath like their English degree depends on it.