• Pratai@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m going to pass on that. The whole thing is a bit too silly for my taste.

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Each to their own, but I may remind you that whenever your generation was growing up it’s incredibly likely that you were using words your parents didn’t use.

      I can see you’ve already been informed how language evolves, and if you can’t accept that then I don’t know what to say. I guess I could ask why you ain’t talking all Shakespearean?

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        Lighten up, kid. Just because I chose not to partake in some flavor-of-the-week slang, doesn’t mean I’m unwilling to keep up with change.

        I’m allowed to have an opinion that it’s fucking dumb.

        And if it’s Shakespearean that you’re after….

        Verily I perpend that though mayest o’er-rauhot thine aversion to proclivity and hastily fornicate thyself with nigh but the expertly expedience of one so deserved of such an unpregnant act.

        • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          That’s just old legalese. If you want Shakespearean you at least have to make it look like iambic pentameter.

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          Hence me writing each to their own. I would have thought that conveyed that I support you right to have an opinion.

          kid

          To a 40 year old. Gee thanks buddy for the condescending tone.

          lighten up

          And goes on to say

          I’m allowed to have an opinion that it’s fucking dumb…

          Have a wonderful day. I was merely trying to point out that language changes. I tried that in a civil manner, perhaps that didn’t come across.

          • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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            1 year ago

            That’s not Shakespearean English by any stretch of the imagination. It’s not even close. It’s some rando’s poorly-educated approximation.

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          1 year ago

          flavor-of-the-week slang

          Yeet has actually been around for multiple years now. People have been saying it since at least 2018, probably longer.