Basically just something people say that indicates a position indirectly, like how seperatists from a given region might always say they're from [region] and not [country] or how trump supporters call AI "SI" now.

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[–] [S] 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah you're right I did mean shibboleths, just didn't know the term, sorry, should I edit the post?

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  • [–] 19 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah, as @Tikiporch@lemmy.world said, the meaning is clear.

    It's such a fun word and i think it's such a neat concept, but it's annoying to use in a title cause it's quite a rare word. But i find that once there's a name for it, it's way easier to notice it, so i like to mention it.

    Where i live we pronounce couch st and schuyler st as cooch and skyler, and the police dept is the police bureau. Not knowing these things is used as a shibboleth that marks visiters.

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