What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?
What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?
Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.
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I actually dislike that term a lot.
It's like spunkgargleweewee. It seems immature and makes me feel more dismissive towards the argument. Maybe that also has to do with it being a catch all term and people seem less willing to give specific examples of how things are declining in quality.
spunkgargleweewee
You're claiming that is a term people use?
Skibidi Ohio rizz bro.
Omg no
Straight fax no printer no cap
You better be standin on bidness
On god sigma gyatt
Ok that last half of that comment I feel like you just randomly typed characters until you got something that looked like words.
C'mon. They need to invent words for the clique-signalling .
It's very fetch.
Stop trying to make fetch happen
Fetch never took off though.
Not commonly but every so often YouTubers I watch will start using it and it sticks for a prolonged period of time.
It was just the first thing that came to mind. I imagine there are other equally silly internet words out there.
spunkgargleweewee
Ah, an individual of culture.
Wait did you just coin that? That's fucking brilliant /s
Edit: apparently I needed a /s because Lemmy doesn't use this term constantly or anything?
It was coined by Cory Doctorow.
Because there was no /s - no they didn't, it's been around for a little while now. It basically means products or services slowly getting worse rather than better - such as adding ads, adding useless or broken ai to everything, switching to a subscription without adding any actual value. This is almost always done in the interest of maximizing profit as much as possible, at the expense of the users (monetarily and experience wise). Basically, see any major company decisions in the last several years, especially at companies with very large audiences (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, etc)
Since we're talking about it, and I really like the guy's work, I figured I should say who coined it! Author, Cory Doctorow! He has a blog where he (among all the other stuff he writes about) defined the word, and wrote several articles about it.
lol I didn't think I needed the
/sbecause it was dripping with sarcasm.The issue with pretending to be stupid on the internet to make a point is that there are so many people doing the same thing with no point in mind.
Sarcasm isn't "pretending to be stupid" imo
This particular instance was certainly pretending to be ill-informed, so
Well ignorance isn't stupidity, but also it was just SO obvious. Enshittification is one of the most used new words I've ever seen.
I think you were pretty obvious. Someone actually curious would have asked what it meant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Writer Cory Doctorow coined the neologism "enshittification" in November 2022, though he was not the first to describe and label the concept.[1][2] The American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year.
Cory Doctorow coined it: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/