• kubica@kbin.social
    15·
    1 year ago

    Younger me would agree 100% in changing the meaning of the word to be what everyone expects it to be.

    • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Younger me? I’d want to change the meaning of that word to this now even at my current age.

      • Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        But then you lose great puns, which are half the reason English is such a great language. Consider “American Idiot”:

        Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.

        The song works significantly better by using a pun, to say that it’s a nation of the alienated.

    • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I was doing research on alien cults for a podcast I host, and I found a scholarly article on why people resist alien rule.
      Turns out it was about people’s dislike for being ruled by foreign nations.