• lobut@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I always wondered how hardcore etymologists (?) feel watching certain history shows or sci-fi knowing that there’s no way they could be using certain words or phrases.

    • samus12345@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Depends. A show taking place in the 80s where the kids are saying “poggers” and “rizz” would be pretty jarring.

      • crawancon@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        you have to have some yarbels to get me gulliver to watch 80s baffoonery.

    • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      I assume it’s roughly the same feeling programmers get when some TV character “creates a GUI interface using visual basic to track the killer’s IP address.”

      • neidu2@feddit.nl
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        10 months ago

        I’m an IT dude (part software dev, part network admin) and I like etymology. Can confirm.

      • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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        10 months ago

        smashes two keyboards at once, causing green-on-black HTML code to appear in the reflection in sunglasses

        I’m in.