Have you really never shortened a word in your life?
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Blank@lemmy.world 6 months agoCould just say charisma. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Kedly@lemm.ee 6 months ago
bitwaba@lemmy.world 6 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 usecharismatic
so that only the noun form gets used and we avoid ever having to use it as an adjective?Kedly@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I mean, Rizzmatic sounds awesome, I’m down to hear that variation. Language is constantly in flux. It has never stayed static
Cornucopiaofplenty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s not really how slang works