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@corbden that's approximately so approximately weird, approximately wow, how could you approximately say such a thing

@reb Perfect.

@corbden it doesn't necessarily work for how "like" is used in some Scottish dialects, for example "he was pure raging, like"

Is like even a word

What is that?? "Like"???

They've played us for fools.

Language is not real.

Millions deceived.

@reb We've come full circle. "ly" At the end of adverbs and adjectives was originally the old English form of "like." So slow-like, burl-like, plain-like, etc became slowly, burly, and plainly.

@corbden that is bigly weirdly likely

@corbden wait

Does likely mean

Like like

@reb Yes.

@corbden this has destroyed my sense of objective reality, this is all just far too silly.

Weebly wobbly woo

@reb Don't get me started on the suffix "-ard" (one who does or is a thing) and how we've bet recently reinvented it, only now it's "-ass."

(Wizard = wiseass)

@corbden buzzard - ass that buzzes

@reb lol it doesn't go that direction.

The buzz in buzzard apparently goes back to Latin, but probably they used the -ard to show disdain.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/buzzard#etymonline_v_18162

@reb yes lol

@corbden @reb like beer that makes me gassy

@theynege @corbden beerard

@reb @theynege drunkass

@corbden @reb this does put King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard into context

@theynege @corbden king rizz and the skibidi wiseass

@reb @theynege Gen Alpha could learn a thing from you.

@corbden @theynege how old is gen alpha because my 14 year old cousin thinks he's too cool for school but he's actually just 14

@reb @theynege I think that's on the cusp.

@reb @corbden I think he'd be a Geriatric Alpha

@theynege @reb AlphZennial

@corbden @reb Zalph, which also happens to be a common name of the age bracket

@theynege @corbden is there a zalph's around here?

@theynege @reb Once they enter the workplace the media will call them Zalphasses.

@corbden @theynege he expressed confusion as to why his older brother "likes nerd stuff but people like him anyway"

@corbden @theynege note, "nerd stuff" means "star wars" not "unix"

@reb @theynege oh no. Is that backsliding?? We'd made such progress!

@corbden @theynege he's been raised by my uncle as a single dad, and my uncle is, to be slightly unkind, is a bit of a shithead. I don't think he's representative of the whole generation. I hope not anyway.

Don't get me wrong, I like my uncle, but he warned me today "there's a woke army waiting to pounce"

@reb @theynege Whew, there's a relief.

And your uncle seems like not a very good person.

@corbden @theynege I think fundamentally he means well, he just suffers from small town ignorance. Most of what he knows of the wider world has been fed to him through facebook.

There is, yes, definitely a reason I don't ever talk to him if I can help it

@reb @theynege I've recently been learning to tell the difference between small town nonwillful ignorance (which I'm very forgiving of) and authoritarianism as a value (even if unconscious). My recent reassessment of my own mother calibrated my spidy-senses to a hair trigger. It's a spectrum.

But I don't know your uncle, and I don't want to presume too much. Leaning in to bad-talk nerds (of all people, in 2024) is the red flag for me.

@corbden @theynege oh the bad talking of nerds was my cousin

My uncles take on nerds is that it's a good way to get rich, which is a different kind of... uhhhh

@reb @theynege oh! Haha ok. Well, tbf 30 years ago, tech nerdery had very good chances for honest upward mobility. I think that's gotten... different.

@corbden @theynege who knows. Adjusted for inflation my income is higher than my dad's at my age, he was an electronics engineer with a degree (later a service engineer for industrial machinery) and is currently higher than my mum's and she's a manager. So there's obviously some level of mobility still, and I'm definitely not doing anything unethical

@reb That's good to hear. I've been out of the industry 15 years, but I knew plenty of self-made millionaires (or close) in the geek community back then. I've gotten the idea it's harder to be in the right place and time, less low-hanging fruit, more exploitation.

@corbden @reb they are so Ohio (I think? I'm 41, I don't know what that means)

@theynege @reb It's means they suck. They think Ohio sucks. Approximately it's skinidibi in a *bad* way.

@corbden something that blew my mind recently is that Liam seems to be related to William somehow