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minus-square@vzqlinkEnglish13•7 months agoThat’s just old legalese. If you want Shakespearean you at least have to make it look like iambic pentameter.
minus-square@dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish9•7 months agoHence me writing each to their own. I would have thought that conveyed that I support you right to have an opinion. kid To a 40 year old. Gee thanks buddy for the condescending tone. lighten up And goes on to say I’m allowed to have an opinion that it’s fucking dumb… Have a wonderful day. I was merely trying to point out that language changes. I tried that in a civil manner, perhaps that didn’t come across.
minus-square@Nelots@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish6•7 months ago flavor-of-the-week slang Yeet has actually been around for multiple years now. People have been saying it since at least 2018, probably longer.
minus-square@AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-27 months agoFirst time I’ve seen someone use Shakespearian English to say go fuck yourself. Well done.
minus-square@TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoThat’s not Shakespearean English by any stretch of the imagination. It’s not even close. It’s some rando’s poorly-educated approximation.
minus-squaremagnetospherelinkfedilink2•7 months agoHell, whether you partake or not, it’s part of the process. Slang becomes part of the language if it’s good, and it doesn’t stick if enough people think it’s dumb. Keep doing what you’re doing!
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That’s just old legalese. If you want Shakespearean you at least have to make it look like iambic pentameter.
Hence me writing each to their own. I would have thought that conveyed that I support you right to have an opinion.
To a 40 year old. Gee thanks buddy for the condescending tone.
And goes on to say
Have a wonderful day. I was merely trying to point out that language changes. I tried that in a civil manner, perhaps that didn’t come across.
Yeet has actually been around for multiple years now. People have been saying it since at least 2018, probably longer.
First time I’ve seen someone use Shakespearian English to say go fuck yourself. Well done.
That’s not Shakespearean English by any stretch of the imagination. It’s not even close. It’s some rando’s poorly-educated approximation.
Hell, whether you partake or not, it’s part of the process. Slang becomes part of the language if it’s good, and it doesn’t stick if enough people think it’s dumb. Keep doing what you’re doing!