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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There will come the day where humankind abandons traditional language and embraces comunicating only via relevant XKCD comics

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The students, this years records destroyed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Shaka, when the walls fell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You know Randall is going to make that meta comic

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

How is there so many relevant xkcds

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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

I’m in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Depends. A show taking place in the 80s where the kids are saying "poggers" and "rizz" would be pretty jarring.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

It's a classic epidemiological failure to appropriately organize one's knowledge and information.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Or with accent... I can't even buggin to put into words

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Ask your ant, or your ankle

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I actually did make that mistake IRL exactly once.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This was brilliant! Loved it.