• Bunnylux@lemmy.worldEnglish
    975·
    3 months ago

    I really wish people online would stop telling me what fucking words to use

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      122·
      3 months ago

      But then what would they superciliously lecture you on to feel like they made a difference from their tiny insignificant corner of the world?

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      101·
      3 months ago

      I think a lot of people misread intent. No one is policing your conversations in your living room, but if you’re an author (of any medium of art) your work necessarily interfaces with an audience (arguably you can create art without anyone else ever seeing it, let’s take that as read) — if you’re attempting to communicate with an audience its naive to think they won’t have opinions on it, or that it can’t be improved.

      I like to imagine if you said this to James Joyce, or Georges Perec, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Truman Capote, Samuel Beckett (or other authors known for being exacting) … They could get pissy about it sure, but they could also say “What an excellent point, I could be way more specific, accurate and poetic in my prose.”

      While you are absolutely entitled to your opinion, do you not think it’s a fruitful line of enquiry in terms of literary criticism and dramaturgy, similar to how using “nice” as every adjective is considered unimaginative?

  • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
    704·
    3 months ago

    But blind isn’t just a visual impairment?

    It’s just a word that has two meanings, so stop trying to be offended about someone using the other meaning.

    People just trying to be offended for the sake of it.

    • Kroxx@lemm.ee
      381·
      3 months ago

      Stop calling that thing in your window a blind you sightist, that’s a telescoping sun repeller

    • Modva@lemmy.world
      23·
      3 months ago

      Blind fury. Blind to someone’s faults, blinded by love. Poker blinds. Types of medical trials. Venetian blinds.

      Getting angry at other well-established uses of words seems like fun.

      • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
        6·
        3 months ago

        Hunting blinds. Blind baking a pie crust. Blind devotion. Blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night. Wait, what were we talking about again?

    • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
      131·
      3 months ago

      I recall John Barnes, an English footballer, having a hissy fit because some sports broadcaster had referred to a stadium crush as ‘a black day for football’. John Barnes said it was yet another example of a racist connotation of the word. Nope, John, it’s just another meaning, you word hogger.

        • BearGun@ttrpg.network
          82·
          3 months ago

          Tbf, in technology and IT the term “master” is often paired with “slave”, so the connection is a lot more reasonable.

          • okamiueru@lemmy.world
            55·
            3 months ago

            Sure. But, people still know what the words mean, right? You don’t get offended by all the racism in Uncle Tom’s cabin, and want to ban the book, right? You wouldn’t get offended if someone cosplayed as a black elf, would you?

            Or, maybe you would. People are, after all, fucking morons. Myself included. I don’t really care if I have to call a branch main or master, just so that’s clear. But it’s 100% a fucking stupid reason for the change, and anyone who thinks that matters in any way, I’ll think less of, and probably avoid in social settings.

          • okamiueru@lemmy.world
            23·
            3 months ago

            Naah, you see. There is a different point of view that you aren’t considering. If you cannot correctly identify racism, all you’re doing is making noise. Which is perfect, if you’d rather quibble over bullshit and ban episodes of Community, while systemic racism is everywhere in the US. Americans have no idea how much US culture is centered around “race”. Everything is viewed through that lens… so, don’t be so quick to dismiss people who might be just a taaaad tired of (mostly) American virtue signaling of what is, and isn’t racism.

            Also, of course it didn’t bother anyone, since it had fuck all to do with racism. That’s kinda my point. Racism is a very real thing, and a very real problem. So people who want to make a fuss about these things can go fuck off and see if they can figure out what racism actually is.

            PS: I’m also not bothered in the slightest if I name the branch main or master. I’m not sure if you’ll believe that. What I do take offense is the failure to identify that this in fact, has nothing to do with racism, so how about focus on, you know… the problems?

            PPS: Feel free to downvote me and move on. I’m annoyed that I brought it up.

  • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
    322·
    3 months ago

    Will people please stop using lazy as a synonym for bad writing?

    There are so many reasons why someone might be bad at writing and many of them are far from “lazy”.

    If there’s in thing about us lazy folk, it is being able to write as concisely as possible to conserve energy.

    Not only is the use of “lazy” rude it is uninformed.

    And will people please stop using “uninformed” as a synonym for people who aren’t very smart.

    There are so many reasons why…

  • Skasi@lemmy.world
    30·
    3 months ago

    I’d say blind and ignorant have very different meanings.

    Being blind to something means you are unable to register it, you might be searching for it but can’t find it even though it’s right in front of you, it’s a sensory thing. Even being blind to social cues is a sort of sensory thing.

    Being ignorant means you can see it but, perhaps due to a lack of open mindedness, decide that it is something else or assign incorrect characteristics to it even though eg measurements have shown different things. This could be due to a lack of trust, an agenda, or something else entirely.

    Both of them make it difficult for you to learn the truth, but the causes and problems you experience are different.

  • KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    3 months ago

    Blindness, as I witness it, is not a lazy word for ignorance. It is used when someone did not inform themselves (enough). This could have been out of naïveté or out of malice, but also because one simply didn’t know better. I think “blind” in this case is very accurate.