• spujb@lemmy.cafeOP
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    5 months ago

    no hate to you but i do hate that this is one of the default responses the internet has chosen when discussing this language (twice now in this thread)

    i guess it’s like a growing pains thing, but it strikes me as very middle schooler, kind of like bringing up that one word that means unwilling to share with others.

    one is a noun/adjective, the other is a verb. entirely different words that simply have the same Latin root. one is used in a professional context in an industry nearly none of us are familiar with, the other i come across as a derogatory on this site pretty much hourly. please let’s grow up a bit about this.

    (again no hate to you specifically commenter, it was a funny joke and i just want to call out the broader trend)

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      This is a real convo I had with middle schoolers when I did a stint as a teacher.

      “But teacher why I can’t I say SHITAKE? it’s a mushroom. And James is acting like a little SHITAKE head.”