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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by tbihl on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @09:22PM (#32245995)
'creole' has developed a linguistic meaning that parallels the ethnic one you may be interpreting.

From Wikipedia: a stable natural language that develops from the simplifying and mixing of different languages into a new one within a fairly brief period of time: often, a pidgin evolved into a full-fledged language.

I still found the comment to be a bit of a stretch with that usage.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by chitowneats on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @09:41PM (#32246093)
Agreed.

Is there not a better or more general word we have for this these days in English?

Maybe we could borrow it from the Germans. I do like words like Schadenfreude.

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