• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I like woody sort of words. Bound, prudy, recidivist. Erogenous zone, loose woman… concubine! Errrogenous zooooone!

    Funny thing, dear. All the naughty words sound woody.

    E: It appears I have misread the question. But I’ll leave my Monty Python reference here.

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    13 hours ago

    Feminism

    Between the toxic terfs and the toxic trads i think the word has been sullied, maybe beyond recovery.

    I beleive in equality and free expression for all, but I don’t feel like that’s a goal that aligns with most modern forms of Feminism.

    It is a word that’s supposed to mean eqality, but these days when someone identifies as a feminist my mind assumes they’re gonna be a reactionary bigot.

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        15 hours ago

        Just can’t stand the way it sounds, starts with an idi like your going into something then ends with an um. It feels like someone stopped making the name partway through.

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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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    17 hours ago

    Penultimate. Anyone writing about or reviewing the second last of anything uses it in their first breath like their English degree depends on it.

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    When people call sex “breeding”.

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

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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.

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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”?

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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)