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viciar posts:
still thinking about when i saw a girl on here with ~3 partners and one of them was a lesbian with a “MEN DNI” banner and one of them was a tboy with a “MEN DNI’ DNI” banner

raptorofwar replies:
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#wolf goat and cabbage polycule

  • rapchee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    TIT (today i teach): you can use https://www.urbandictionary.com/ to explain new words of phrases.
    in firefox (and many other browsers too), you can right click the search bar and “add search engine”, and you can add a “keyword”, i personally use “ud”, and then i can type “ud dni” (for instance) in the address bar (ctrl+l to get there quick) and it goes straight to results

    if the page isn’t supported, it doesn’t show “add search engine”, google translate for example, you can still add it in a different way
    search for a recognisable word, and bookmark the resulting page. then go to bookmark/manage bookmarks (ctrl+shift+o), find the bookmark, replace your recognisable word with “%s”, add a keyword (depending on the language i use 2en, 2de, 2jp etc)

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
      26·
      2 days ago

      No. Double negative rules apply to modifying a negative, but in this context the first DNI should not be considered a negative but a noun in its own right.

      First DNI: Men, do not interact with me.

      Second DNI: Do not interact with me, misandrists.

      The second is not literally the same thing as “men, interact with me” but it can be assumed to mean “I don’t have a problem with men interacting with me.” It is still is not a request for the interaction itself which is what double negative rules would imply.

      Tl;Dr double negative rules in English simply aren’t the same as they are in Latin which is why it’s a fake rule, even beyond the usage for emphasis in casual speech.

    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      They just need some one to provide light energy for the cabbage and they’ll be set for multiple millennia.