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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

....please leave 'unalive' on places like tik tok.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was using it satirically and I honestly think that's where this word is going. I find it fascinating though - it's absolutely meaningless but it also sounds safe and incredibly artificial. It's full of these paradoxical features that make this word really fun. I'd invest meme points into it tbh.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's too late man it's now apart of the modern language. Insert Abe Simpson "I used to be hip.." meme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It really only is, for the most part, on places like tik tok and youtube where the word 'dead' is banned. And it occasionally slips out into normal society but....just...no.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Contrary to popular belief the word "dead" is not banned on tiktok or youtube. Do people really think that the censor can be tricked by a synonym a 5 yeard old could come up with?

Real argument is to protect people with trauma as seeing "dead" can be a trigger but even then it doesn't make much sense as it's the same word - just spelled differently. The only way this would work if we come up with new word for "death" every few months before our brains re-asocciate the synonyms but that's absurdly impractical and impossible to implement. I do think it's an interesting language phenomena tho and is fun to explore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Now that I look yeah..your right. I fell for interwebs bullshit. But completely agree on you about the constant changing of words. And going going back to the original though....if you are so triggered by the word dead/death...im sorry but you just need to learn to live with that. Society cant abandon such incredibly basic words because of people like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know, but to me "suicide" and "kill" seem like the words that would've been banned. Not "dead".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the slippage is going to increase. It's a full word not like "LOL", people will say it IRL.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've never heard someone say it irl yet.

Until then

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

like 8 years ago i worked with this girl who would fucking say hashtag. like someone would say something really crazy and she would be like "hashtag really?"

I.....really hated her....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I teach middle school. During the school year, I heard it two dozen times daily.

It's getting tiresome already.