this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2024
688 points (97.4% liked)
Lemmy Shitpost
26788 readers
2694 users here now
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
Reach out to
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
At least cheugy is a new word. All these fucking morons literally redefining “giving” and it’s absolutely terrible. It doesn’t sound good. It just makes you sound idiotic and like you don’t know English.
I believe giving actually comes from 90s gay/drag culture, and like most of these isn't really as obtuse as it seems. It's just word omission. It's just shorthand for "it's giving me thoughts of" or "it's giving me memories of", basically (okay, admittedly I'm extracting a little bit here).
Here's an example that I hope helps: imagine your friend or romantic partner comes to you wearing a new tweed jacket they've excited about, but all you can see when you look at it is memories of your tweed-clad college professor. You might respond with "i dunno, it's giving college prof," which is just shorthand for "I dunno, it's giving me flashbacks to memories of my college professor."
Personally that seems a fairly functional evolution of language in the way it always evolves, not the degradation you seem to be finding, but of course I can only offer my own singular opinion on the topic, so do with that what you want
edit: typos
They didn't redefine giving, it's literally being used for its original definition. Just add "energy" or "vibes" at the end of the sentence and it clarifies exactly how it's used. If someone sees your outfit and says "It's giving Beyoncé" -> "it's giving Beyoncé energy", your outfit is reminding them of Beyoncé. As in it is providing/offering said Beyoncé-like energy, aka one of the original definitions of giving something.
they literally redefined it. It no longer means to ' : presented as a gift : bestowed without compensation ' or 'particular, specified' or ' : immediately present in experience ' they're using it as "it gives me the energy of" which already HAD A DEFINITION. THAT'S WHAT VIBE MEANS.
That's not the original definition of 'giving' something, i have no clue where you got that from.
Bunch of morons downvoting too, bet y'all saying giving a hundred times a day. fucking idiots.
Those were not the only original definitions of giving by a long shot. Another original definition was to provide, offer, impart, communicate, or pass on something, (hence the phrase "giving off" which has been around for a long time, example: it's giving off radiation), etc. It's not gen Z's fault you don't know all the definitions of giving.
Yeah if used in that manner you have to put a word after it. Not doing so is redefining it
mfer never heard of a synonym