cm0002@lemmy.world to Fediverse memes@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 day agoWe don't do that here ✋lemmy.worldimagemessage-square128linkfedilinkarrow-up1491arrow-down143
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minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down3·19 hours 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-up6arrow-down4·19 hours 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.
minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoExactly - comm is a perfectly cromulent word.
minus-squareMesophar@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·16 hours agoWouldn’t that also apply to calling them subs? Like, maybe it’s technically a community and not a sub-[item], but everyone knows what is meant by it.
minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 hours agoWe as a group stopped using ‘subs’ to distance ourselves from reddit. Had they not been as shitty as they were, we might still be using their terminology
minus-squarefrostysauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·6 hours agoSpeak for yourself, I’m not so obsessed with reddit that i need to make up new words just to price I’m not obsessed with reddit.
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.
Exactly - comm is a perfectly cromulent word.
Wouldn’t that also apply to calling them subs? Like, maybe it’s technically a community and not a sub-[item], but everyone knows what is meant by it.
We as a group stopped using ‘subs’ to distance ourselves from reddit. Had they not been as shitty as they were, we might still be using their terminology
Speak for yourself, I’m not so obsessed with reddit that i need to make up new words just to price I’m not obsessed with reddit.