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tetris11 @lemmy.ml

2mo ago

What's a word you wish you could unlearn?

Level 1: You don't recognise the word
Level 2: No one recognises the word
Level 3: The action the word describes no longer exists

61 comments

degloving
- Alright, this ends the thread.
- Hey I was still using those.
  
  Sorry, didn't realize you still needed your skin. Here, you can have it back
- Is that like mclovin?
- Removing gloves? Also this implies the existence of "gloving"

Enshittification
- A very useful word, though.

I'll try, but I am not the smartest with lvl. 2 and 3.
Level 1: Sounding
Level 2: God
Level 3: Wrongdoing
- ???? No replacement word
  Deity
  fault
  
  Not sure what you're attempting there, trying to make it so his choices aren't useful?
  
  Either urethral insertion or dilation (depending on your preference)
- Goodpost

Capitalism/Greed on Level 3 please.

I can't believe no one said skibidi
- Who would want to forget Little Big's most romantic song?
- My knowledge of that "word" is the fact that it exists and that is all. There is nothing for me to unlearn.

Smegma 🥴
- Don't you mean santorum?

I'd be very happy to never hear a scandal described by having "gate" as a suffix.
- Please wait. Before the suffix -gate goes away for good I want a fence-related scandal that we can call gate-gate. Then it can be retired.
- Or cyber as a prefix
- I don't understand why is gate a suffix at all?
  
  Watergate scandal

gooning
- I had to look it up. Ew

"****"

edging

Hemicorporectomy
- Removing half the body by cleaving the left and right sides apart.

This ask reminds me of this Kids in the Hall sketch
https://youtu.be/lStcwT_RGrQ
- I delineate that to be true

Level 3 is a big part of the storyline in "The Memory Police" by Yoko Ogawa
- Solid recommendation, thank you

deglove. (for the love of god, do not GIS this)

Meekrob

Scaphism
- the victim being trapped between two small boats, one inverted on top of the other, with limbs and head sticking out, feeding them and smearing them with milk and honey, and allowing them to fester and be devoured by insects and other vermin over time.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

The word 'due' as in 'due to covid.' I hear it everywhere now, especially from young people. I want the word 'because' to make a comeback.

Fashist
- "Actually it's 'facism'.'"
  "Lovely!"

Lung butter

Um.

- Was my generation's slang bad? No, it is the young people
  
  Our slang was bomb, yo. The shiznit!
  
  yes, yes it was
  we made literally and figuratively mean the same thing!
- Skibidi is like the least worst YouTube brainrot. It actually has themes and an overarching story.
  Just because it's shortform, chaotic, and ugly doesn't automatically make it bad. It's better than the stuff on YouTube that I grew up watching, it's honestly got deeper themes than Red Vs. Blue.
  Rizz is just this decades swag.
  Of all of the gen A things you picked the least offensive ones. We should be picking things like glizzy, the replacement for hotdog.

shibal

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