▲ 985 ▼ Coincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hub (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by merari42@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev 182 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 child) Relevant xkcd permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 child) Not quite what the XKCD is talking about, but my favorite linguistic phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago I prefer cacophemism. You can make some really fucked up new concepts by replacing eu- (good/well) with caco- (bad): cacology, cacogenics, cacophoria (I guess dysphoria got there first), cacoangelium and my favourite, cacothanasia. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 child) Not quite what the XKCD is talking about, but my favorite linguistic phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago I prefer cacophemism. You can make some really fucked up new concepts by replacing eu- (good/well) with caco- (bad): cacology, cacogenics, cacophoria (I guess dysphoria got there first), cacoangelium and my favourite, cacothanasia. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago I prefer cacophemism. You can make some really fucked up new concepts by replacing eu- (good/well) with caco- (bad): cacology, cacogenics, cacophoria (I guess dysphoria got there first), cacoangelium and my favourite, cacothanasia. permalink fedilink source parent
