cm0002@lemmy.world to Fediverse memes@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 month agoWe don't do that here ✋lemmy.worldimagemessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1493arrow-down144
arrow-up1449arrow-down1imageWe don't do that here ✋lemmy.worldcm0002@lemmy.world to Fediverse memes@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down4·1 month 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-up7arrow-down5·1 month 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-up1·1 month agoExactly - comm is a perfectly cromulent word.
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.