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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea, I see it as a world wide trend in many languages: the dialects are going away

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This comment makes me realize I might've misunderstood the one I was replying too. I believed "going away in style" meant "going away in a stylish manner". Like, it's fading from use, but since a while and until it disappears it's become a fancy phrase. Now I guess it just means it's fading from use. But the point I was trying to make is that I believe that, because Nina Simone used it, it's now a stylish phrase even if it wasn't before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

There are many cool terms and phrases just waiting to be spoken and written again. But yes

Also apparently this particular op phrase lives on in some areas, going by that uk comment