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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

cope /kōp/

intransitive verb

  1. To contend or strive, especially on even terms or with success. 

    "coping with child-rearing and a full-time job."

  2. To contend with difficulties and act to overcome them. 

  3. To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.


As a foreigner it’s really jarring seeing this verb adopting a new meaning of “failing to cope”. I’ve seen it many times, it’s definitely not you and not new, but it does make the English language just a tad more inaccessible.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

it's mostly just internet lingo. English is not my native language either and I sometimes have the opposite problem: I know/use the internet definition/meaning but not the "official" one lol

Urban Dictionary is your friend in such cases, that's where I usually go for stuff like this

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Every time I have to get to UD, though:

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

understandable, but tbh my terminally online brain finds it funny and sometimes genuinely interesting what kind of bs ppl come up with

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

Im kinda an english native depending on definition but for a very long time i mainly used it on the internet so sometimes i use too many contractions and slang with people who are not as good with it which can lead to confusion.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's mostly just internet lingo.

Spend more time around people under 25, while they're around other people who are also under that age. I hear it a lot.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not even under 25. Just spend a lot of time with people who are. Makes you feel old when younger folks 'code-switch' and use different language choices with you...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

one could call that an "oof moment" lol

but tbh I will probably feel the same when I have to talk with the "skibbidy toilet" generation (aka gen alpha) in the future
(I only recently found out what that even is 💀)

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