• Peachy [they/them] @lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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    “lame” isn’t super appreciated here. At best it’s a homophone of a word that is ableist. At worst, people are actively being ableist. You never know with the internet, we have a ton of extremely problematic people pop in and use words that mean the second option. There’s just better ways to express disbelief or calling someone socially inept.

    But yeah, prude.

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          “copypasta” isn’t super appreciated here. At best it’s a homophone of a word that is ableist. At worst, people are actively being ableist. You never know with the internet, we have a ton of extremely problematic people pop in and use words that mean the second option. There’s just better ways to express disbelief or calling someone socially inept.

          But yeah, prude.

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        Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone use the old definition of lame unless they were being intentionally antiquated, and even then, never in a way to put someone down.

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          Lame, sucks, bad, etc. They all mean the same thing, essentially.

          There is absolutely nothing ableist about using lame. Nobody uses it to mean impotent or unable.

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      Imagine having the privilege of so much free time that you can afford to purity test people whom you know full well are using colloquialisms.

      • Peachy [they/them] @lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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        Oh sorry you’re right mods shouldn’t do anything to try and make a leftist trans space more welcoming to people 🙄 silly me. I’ll just ban anything I don’t like and abuse my power rather than wanting to have a discussion. We’ll also go back to calling things “gay” to mean undesirable because it was colloquialism. Words don’t matter, right? /s

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      “ass” used to mean donkey. Do most people use it to mean donkey now? No. Do some still? Maybe. Terms evolve, it’s a big lingusistic thing, happens in every language with speakers

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        “lmao” isn’t super appreciated here. At best it’s a homophone of a word that is ableist. At worst, people are actively being ableist. You never know with the internet, we have a ton of extremely problematic people pop in and use words that mean the second option. There’s just better ways to express disbelief or calling someone socially inept.

        But yeah, dude.

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      I had to re-read this a few times, but I see what you mean. I’ll try to be more direct about what I mean to say.