@fionor That's the joke. Hot ≠ Hot, just like Intelligence ≠ Intelligence.
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@monsoonrains
'Bar' and 'Lunge' is the preferred technique for getting the barman's attention in The Towers iirc.
'Bar' and 'Lunge' is the preferred technique for getting the barman's attention in The Towers iirc.
@sigsegv
Yeah, this one is sometimes a learning experience for me too. Some Indian colleagues have names that are male-coded in their region, but female-coded in the rest of the country. It's a useful reminder to _not assume_.
Yeah, this one is sometimes a learning experience for me too. Some Indian colleagues have names that are male-coded in their region, but female-coded in the rest of the country. It's a useful reminder to _not assume_.
Words like "refute" and "literally" have a nuanced meaning that becomes lost when softened, and no other word has the same efficiency. I wonder is that because the generation that effects the change hasn't yet got the sophistication to (1) see the nuance and (2) value the lost nuance.
I aso wonder will we see similar effects with words like "resile" that aren't yet in common usage, but might fork in the same way when they meet the waves of varying language usage.
@gregeganSF @PaulGrahamRaven
Sometimes it's cultural or generational; In my part of the world, "deadly", "savage", and "fire" are used as adjectives to describe something as exceptionally good, with the set of such words evolving over time.
Those words haven't lost their original meaning, so the context is important.
@riley A Festivus pole?
FredIt’s unfortunate that, in an effort to avoid the supposed mistakes of Twitter, Mastodon has descended into a navel-gazing debate about.. avoiding the mistakes of Twitter.
Arguing over QT’s and search feels like it’s missing the forest for the trees: toxic behaviors and communities originate from a complex mix of norms, moderation (or lack thereof) and product affordances.
It’s never going to boil down to just a set of product features.