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Coincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hub (lemmy.world)
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[–] 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

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  • [–] 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.

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