The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era

Re:The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era – The Spicy Web by PaulHoule on Thursday March 02, 2023 @09:05AM (#34995745)

Incels might be the most prominent example of a group with a large hermetic vocabulary that floats independently of the rules that govern neologisms.

For instance you could almost figure out what ‘anti-racism’ is based on the composition rules of language. (But you might think “anti-“ means “opposed to” whereas “anti-“ as in anti-matter is more like it according to Coates.)

Someone who went to the movies might dimly understand the “pills” (or do some people just take a lot of drugs?). On the other hand you could never figure out “chad”, and “stacey” without explanation.

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Re:The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era – The Spicy Web by hgsgm on Thursday March 02, 2023 @09:11AM (#34995831)

You are trying to lock down language with your own restrictive unstated rules, while also complaining about 1984 locking down language with rules?!

Shaka, when the walls fell.

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Re:The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era – The Spicy Web by UncleEntity on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:07PM (#34998449)

> On the other hand you could never figure out “chad”, and “stacey” without explanation.

Or, you know, context.

I don’t know what a Stan is but could easily understand what they were referring to by the way they used the word.

Incels? What’s that? Pots that call the kettles black?

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