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Why? Are we running out of names to give out?
by airstrike 3y ago
Why? Are we running out of names to give out?
- felonynolef 3y ago[flagged]
- hn_go_brrrrr 3y agoAcerbic, I think, but not really passive aggressive.
- felonynolef 3y agoHow is acerbic different from ironic?
- card_zero 3y agoIt's from from acerbus "bitter to taste, sharp, sour, tart." So it's something said in a mildly mean, cynical, or indeed bitter way, which could include irony but doesn't have to. Also cynicism is about dogs (and Diogenes), and sarcasm is to do with tearing flesh. There's something called the etymological fallacy that says I shouldn't explain words via their roots, but I like to anyway, I think it adds meaning.
- felonynolef2 3y agoI don't know, it's clearly a synonym to me. "Why? Are we running out of names to give out?" is clearly with the intention to be mean but be smug about it, so hence the passive agressiveness.
- felonynolef 3y ago[dead]
- exe34 3y agoOne is bitter or sour, and the other is a good source of iron.
- card_zero 3y agoIt was a peculiar thing to say. "We don't need to give a name to anything well known! Names are for obscure concepts only, everything else can be indicated by grunting," you seemed to say. But really your beef was with attaching a person's name to it, like an attribution?
- felonynolef2 3y ago[dead]
- felonynolef 3y ago[dead]