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What's a word you wish you could unlearn? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by tetris11@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Level 1: You don't recognise the word
Level 2: No one recognises the word
Level 3: The action the word describes no longer exists

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 70 points 3 months ago (13 children)

degloving

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 months ago

Alright, this ends the thread.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey I was still using those.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

Sorry, didn't realize you still needed your skin. Here, you can have it back

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Is that like mclovin?

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[–] JWBananas@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Enshittification

[–] just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

A very useful word, though.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I'll try, but I am not the smartest with lvl. 2 and 3.

Level 1: Sounding
Level 2: God Level 3: Wrongdoing

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

???? No replacement word
Deity
fault

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not sure what you're attempting there, trying to make it so his choices aren't useful?

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[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 14 points 3 months ago

Capitalism/Greed on Level 3 please.

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I can't believe no one said skibidi

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

Who would want to forget Little Big's most romantic song?

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[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I'd be very happy to never hear a scandal described by having "gate" as a suffix.

[–] jrubal1462@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

Please wait. Before the suffix -gate goes away for good I want a fence-related scandal that we can call gate-gate. Then it can be retired.

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[–] 0x01@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Smegma 🥴

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Don't you mean santorum?

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

gooning

[–] just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I had to look it up. Ew

[–] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This ask reminds me of this Kids in the Hall sketch

https://youtu.be/lStcwT_RGrQ

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

I delineate that to be true

[–] froh42@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Level 3 is a big part of the storyline in "The Memory Police" by Yoko Ogawa

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[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hemicorporectomy

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Removing half the body by cleaving the left and right sides apart.

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

deglove. (for the love of god, do not GIS this)

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Scaphism

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[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Meekrob

[–] da_peda@lemmings.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fashist

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[–] phpinjected@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

shibal

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Um.

[–] TheDrink@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

my first thought was brainrot terminology, but after thinking about it for a bit I'm gonna go with "Gamergate" (level 3 please)

[–] GlennicusM@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

Lung butter

[–] electronVolt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

The word 'due' as in 'due to covid.' I hear it everywhere now, especially from young people. I want the word 'because' to make a comeback.

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