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In the chart of trends in how people meet, there is a suspicious uptick in "at a restaurant/bar" in the last few years... that is totally just a cover for peopl
by tmsam 10y ago
In the chart of trends in how people meet, there is a suspicious uptick in "at a restaurant/bar" in the last few years... that is totally just a cover for people who met on Tinder and then got serious.
- creshal 10y agoYep. I can brag to my friends I found hookups on Tinder, but I can't tell my parents I found my spouse there. (If only because I want to avoid the "tinwhat?" discussion.)
- cm2187 10y agoOnline dating doesn't really have any stigma anymore. People aren't shy about it.
- jnbiche 10y ago> any stigmata anymore I'm assuming this was a spell check issue. Stigma is the appropriate word here. Stigmata are these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata
- cm2187 10y agoActually it's me being temporarily dyslexic! Let's still call it a typo. Thanks
- zem 10y agostigmata is also just the plural of stigma; that usage hasn't disappeared yet.
- jnbiche 10y agoOh? Can you point me to an instance of that usage, where "stigmata" is used as a plural of "stigma" (meaning: a socially-ostracizing feature or trait), in a contemporary, edited publication? A will grant that it's sometimes used in the medical literature to mean "a clear, diagnostic sign of some illness", but the allusion there is to the stigmata of Christianity. I've never, ever seen it used to mean the plural of stigma as the word is commonly used in English.
- zeveb 10y agoIt's just like idiom/idiomata.
- zem 10y agoi internalised it as the regular plural of stigma, so i'm guessing i've seen it in books. here's a 2010 Google books result from googling "societal stigmata". https://books.google.com/books?id=xXTcQ-TyK6MC&pg=PA947&lpg=PA947&dq=societal+stigmata&source=bl&ots=V3YTNA1DAL&sig=QQCL9N7_3R0JqwyjtdJmmrOMVSs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjn9PuQlIfMAhUI7B4KHVxwDUIQ6AEIMDAE#v=onepage&q=societal%20stigmata&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=xXTcQ-TyK6MC&pg=PA947&lpg=...
- jnbiche 10y agoOK, well done. I'm surprised it's still used by some writers in this manner, and it's very rare. It's definitely not the regular plural of "stigma". Still, I was wrong.
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