What's a word you wish you could unlearn?
What's a word you wish you could unlearn?
- Level 1: You don't recognise the word
- Level 2: No one recognises the word
- Level 3: The action the word describes no longer exists
The word 'due' as in 'due to covid.' I hear it everywhere now, especially from young people. I want the word 'because' to make a comeback.
degloving
Alright, this ends the thread.
Hey I was still using those.
Sorry, didn't realize you still needed your skin. Here, you can have it back
Is that like mclovin?
Removing gloves? Also this implies the existence of "gloving"
Fun fact: it's also a medical term referring to a specific type of injury / trauma! One of my instructors said she was caring for an ICU patient who had been clinging to life so long that their body was basically just disintegrating and she accidentally degloved their hand while trying to reposition them. Like she picked up the patients' arm and the arm just slipped out of its skin. She panicked and tried to put it back and her preceptor (she was a new grad) stopped her because that's just kinda not how that works like even if they were gonna somehow put it back on they'd probably be calling a surgeon but if the patient is so sick it's just slipping off it's almost definitely not reattachable. Another instructor had a similar story of trying to turn a patient on their side and her hand just going through the patients thigh which she described disintegrating in her hand in a similar manner so apparently it's not even all that uncommon when medical science has kept your body alive past its expiration date.
gooning
I had to look it up. Ew
I'd be very happy to never hear a scandal described by having "gate" as a suffix.
I don't understand why is gate a suffix at all?
Please wait. Before the suffix -gate goes away for good I want a fence-related scandal that we can call gate-gate. Then it can be retired.
Or cyber as a prefix
Enshittification
A very useful word, though.
I can't believe no one said skibidi
My knowledge of that "word" is the fact that it exists and that is all. There is nothing for me to unlearn.
Capitalism/Greed on Level 3 please.
Smegma 🥴
Don't you mean santorum?
edging
Level 3 is a big part of the storyline in "The Memory Police" by Yoko Ogawa
Solid recommendation, thank you
"****"
Hemicorporectomy
Removing half the body by cleaving the left and right sides apart.
This ask reminds me of this Kids in the Hall sketch
I delineate that to be true
Fashist
"Actually it's 'facism'.'"
"Lovely!"
Scaphism
the victim being trapped between two small boats, one inverted on top of the other, with limbs and head sticking out, feeding them and smearing them with milk and honey, and allowing them to fester and be devoured by insects and other vermin over time.
Meekrob
Um.
Levels 2 and 3, perhaps these brainrot terms from the alpha generation, such as "Skibidi toilet" and "Rizz". There are more, but I guess these suffice.
Was my generation's slang bad? No, it is the young people