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Languages evolve and words get new meanings all the time.

by Orygin 1y ago

genewitch 1y ago
Yeah the meaning was what I said until about 2 weeks ago when someone went viral talking about air travel without a cellphone. Do vulgarities often become accepted?
- javcasas 1y ago
  Are we allowed to say "sex" or "kill"? Or do we have to start s*lf-c*nsoring everything? Anyway, my last search to how to un-alive children processes gave me nothing. I wonder if those m*n pages are actually wr*tten by pr*f*ss*n*ls.
  - genewitch 1y ago
    algospeak originated on Tiktok, with all that implies. You couldn't post videos about sexual assault, suicides, murders, any of that directly, so people started self-censoring and using words - unalive maybe came from Deadpool in 2013? I'm not real interested in the actual etymology right now. and you jest but there's been pushes to change things like "master/slave", "kill", "whitelist/blacklist", and the like to something different. I don't know how much traction, and i may have been tricked by april 1st posts or something.
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- piva00 1y ago
  Some of them do, yes. Tone policing has always been around as well, just surprises me to happen in an online forum about "vulgarities".
  - genewitch 1y ago
    I apologize if it came off as tone policing. "Raw dog" sounds innocuous, if a bit strange. There was a radio station that had an internet stream out of Topeka Kansas called "Raw Dog Radio" that was a comedy station/stream; as an example - but it was a direct reference to the sexual connotation. For people who don't know, and notice that "raw dogging" is entering zeitgeist, maybe they'll say it because it sounds silly. It was merely a warning about what it means. The "definition shift" really isn't, people are comparing taking a flight without water, cellphones, etc to sex without a condom (Doesn't matter, flew through the air at hundreds of miles per hour, don't care!) The person i replied to was comparing using an LLM without RAG to risky sex. I'd also avoid saying "So. How are we going to fuck this pig?" in a meeting about infra problems.

Languages evolve and words get new meanings all the time.

by Orygin 1y ago

Languages evolve and words get new meanings all the time.

Yeah the meaning was what I said until about 2 weeks ago when someone went viral talking about air travel without a cellphone. Do vulgarities often become accepted?

javcasas 1y ago
Are we allowed to say "sex" or "kill"? Or do we have to start s*lf-c*nsoring everything? Anyway, my last search to how to un-alive children processes gave me nothing. I wonder if those m*n pages are actually wr*tten by pr*f*ss*n*ls.
- genewitch 1y ago
  algospeak originated on Tiktok, with all that implies. You couldn't post videos about sexual assault, suicides, murders, any of that directly, so people started self-censoring and using words - unalive maybe came from Deadpool in 2013? I'm not real interested in the actual etymology right now. and you jest but there's been pushes to change things like "master/slave", "kill", "whitelist/blacklist", and the like to something different. I don't know how much traction, and i may have been tricked by april 1st posts or something.
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piva00 1y ago
Some of them do, yes. Tone policing has always been around as well, just surprises me to happen in an online forum about "vulgarities".
- genewitch 1y ago
  I apologize if it came off as tone policing. "Raw dog" sounds innocuous, if a bit strange. There was a radio station that had an internet stream out of Topeka Kansas called "Raw Dog Radio" that was a comedy station/stream; as an example - but it was a direct reference to the sexual connotation. For people who don't know, and notice that "raw dogging" is entering zeitgeist, maybe they'll say it because it sounds silly. It was merely a warning about what it means. The "definition shift" really isn't, people are comparing taking a flight without water, cellphones, etc to sex without a condom (Doesn't matter, flew through the air at hundreds of miles per hour, don't care!) The person i replied to was comparing using an LLM without RAG to risky sex. I'd also avoid saying "So. How are we going to fuck this pig?" in a meeting about infra problems.