Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is

• Cornucopiaofplenty@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not really how slang works

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• Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you really never shortened a word in your life?

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  • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sure, but what the hell happens to charismatic in this situation? Does that get shortened too, so now we’ve got people saying “Yo Zendaya is totally rizzmatic!”. Or does everyone just need to re-arrange all sentences that would use charismatic so that only the noun form gets used and we avoid ever having to use it as an adjective?

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    • Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, Rizzmatic sounds awesome, I’m down to hear that variation. Language is constantly in flux. It has never stayed static

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