Post #2225797

2026-03-02 04:48 UTC

Humans are, by and large, awful, and I don't think we're really gonna work out in the long run. But language. Human language is such a glorious thing, it almost redeems us as a species.

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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social 2026-03-02 04:51

Consider the myriad ways to say "stupid". The whole "Eskimos have 30 words for snow" thing is bullshit. The Inuit have slightly more words to describe different kinds and feels of snow than the average midwesterner. Slightly. But if it *were* true, surely, the ways in which we can say "stupid" would tell us all a great deal about our society.

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@thirstybear@agilodon.social 2026-03-02 06:20

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social Never mind ‘stupid’ - certainly over this side of The Pond we can make almost any word mean ‘drunk’. They even has a special term - “drunkonyms”. Gazeboed, carparked, pyjama’d… pick a word. 😁 https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/british-comedian-inspires-linguistic-study-of-slang-synonyms-for-getting-drunk/

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@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk 2026-03-02 09:40

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social agreed. although i hate how specific terms always get worn down to meaninglessness. "internet troll", "reply guy" — these words used to mean something, even quite recently. is that humans, or just entropy? i'm not sure.

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