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3 panel meme. First panel: “I made a new internet slang”. Second panel: “New or misused AAVE?” Third panel: “Misused AAVE”. :::

the other 20% is either 4chan incel language or something trump tweeted in 2017

  • davidgro@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    This can even happen to technical terms, for example bimonthly now has both the original meaning of once every 2 months, and also means semimonthly, twice a month.

    In other words it’s completely worthless as a word because it fails to specify between conflicting meanings.