Comment on What did you call me?

• onipa@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Faggot is apparently a bundle of sticks (formerly a burdensome baggage)

  apparently kid

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  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also the totally appropriate name for the bassoon in some languages, because it looks like a pile of sticks.

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    • boonhet@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Hey it’s spelled “fagott” so that’s a completely different and did not at all make terminally online teenage boys snicker 15+ years ago

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• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fag in Norwegians has norse origins while faggot developed independently and only recently become a slur and come out of American vernacular.

  In older English it was used to mean a burdensome person and it’s sort of resumed that meaning as it’s now often used to mean someone who is annoying.

  Adding a fun double entendre when used to describe a homophobic person.

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• Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  From fasces I think, same as fascism.

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  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I knew those leftists where the real nazi

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