A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True (2017)

Re:A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True (2017) by WalterBright on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:20PM (#33266692)

Words change meaning all the time. For example, to "dime" someone these days means call them on the phone.

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Re:A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True (2017) by Retric on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:15PM (#33267406)

Which doesn’t make the above statement false.

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Re:A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True (2017) by jjk166 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:35PM (#33267611)

I have never heard the word dime used that way, nor do I see anything in the first few google results about it being used that way.

There was a 60s slang term "drop a dime" which meant to call someone, and nowadays that phrase means to call the cops or to snitch.

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Re:A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True (2017) by WalterBright on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:48PM (#33267750)

It's used in the miniseries "Power".

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Re:A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True (2017) by yamazakiwi on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @06:14PM (#33268528)

I've been using the 2010's dime slang and didn't know about this one.

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