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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It might be, but I've only ever seen it used in the condecending way. And it seems to be used like this for quite some time

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Can't argue with real-world use, but man that is a semantic shift that is doing the original word dirty.

Apparently patronage and other forms of the word are having their definitions affected, too.

I read a lot of books so I'm definitely a lot more used to how words are used up to several decades ago.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

yup. language is weird

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 11 months ago

Welcome to humanity since the invention of language