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I think the "joever" has been detached somewhat from it's original meaning (I for one did not know where it came from until right now)
by f_devd 3y ago
I think the "joever" has been detached somewhat from it's original meaning (I for one did not know where it came from until right now)
- Acrobatic_Road 3y agohow is it even funny if you don't know what it means?
- lynxmachine 3y agoidk man, humor is subjective. Sometimes the most random stuff can get a laugh.
- riffraff 3y agoSlang and snowclones and memes often are detached from their originally meaning. "So long, and thanks for all the X", "grok", "long time no see", "catch 22" etc are all expressions that are commonly used by people who may not be familiar with their origin.
- 3836293648 3y agoLong time no see has a popculture origin!?
- riffraff 3y agono, but it was (supposedly[0]) some native american english pidgin. I only meant that most people don't think they're citing native americans speaking broken english when using it today. [0] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/104145/what-is-the-source-of-long-time-no-see-and-when-did-it-enter-u-s-english https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/104145/what-is-t... someone says it was popularized by detective stories in the '40s tho :)
- paradox460 3y agoIt's basically a perfect translation of Chinese 好久不见
- dharmab 3y agoIn the future, humour will be randomly generated