cm0002@lemmy.world to Fediverse memes@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months agoWe don't do that here ✋lemmy.worldimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1imageWe don't do that here ✋lemmy.worldcm0002@lemmy.world to Fediverse memes@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoWhen someone refers to a community as a ‘comm’, they’re just trying to make ‘fetch’ happen. If you hit me up on ‘comms’, I’m gonna need a radio; that’s what the word means, if you’ve been alive any time in the last 100 years.
minus-squarecm0002@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago that’s what the word means “You can’t use X word like that because [It’s made up|That’s not what it means|It means something else]” argument is always incredibly weak. At its very core, language is dynamic, words come, go and change all the time. It’s how it works. Languages that don’t change, die. On top of that, words can have multiple meanings that are dependent on context.
When someone refers to a community as a ‘comm’, they’re just trying to make ‘fetch’ happen.
If you hit me up on ‘comms’, I’m gonna need a radio; that’s what the word means, if you’ve been alive any time in the last 100 years.
“You can’t use X word like that because [It’s made up|That’s not what it means|It means something else]” argument is always incredibly weak.
At its very core, language is dynamic, words come, go and change all the time. It’s how it works. Languages that don’t change, die.
On top of that, words can have multiple meanings that are dependent on context.