• Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I love the Philomena Cunk speech bubble encompassing what the other person posted. Clever.

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    7 months ago

    Younger me would agree 100% in changing the meaning of the word to be what everyone expects it to be.

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      7 months ago

      Younger me? I’d want to change the meaning of that word to this now even at my current age.

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        7 months ago

        But then you lose great puns, which are half the reason English is such a great language. Consider “American Idiot”:

        Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.

        The song works significantly better by using a pun, to say that it’s a nation of the alienated.

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      7 months ago

      I was doing research on alien cults for a podcast I host, and I found a scholarly article on why people resist alien rule.
      Turns out it was about people’s dislike for being ruled by foreign nations.

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    7 months ago

    Oh shit, they tricked me. I’m almost fully gray and they’re talking about transferring me off planet.