return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 10 hours agoI knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such loserswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareZip2@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down2·edit-28 hours ago“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in” — someone called Greek Proverb. It’s the exact opposite of these fuckers. Also: Ffs Guardian. It’s cringeworthy, or at a push cringey, or embarrassing, or awkward. I fucking hate “cringe” used as an adjective (or whatever it is). /rant
minus-squareUntitledQuitting@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-26 hours agobro literally cambridge dictionary has added cringe as an adjective, language changes over time get over it. cringe adjective informaluk/krɪndʒ/ us/krɪndʒ/ very embarrassing, because of being so bad or silly: Everything he posts on social media seems so cringe. When you’re watching the show you constantly think “this is cringe”, but it’s completely addictive!
minus-squareZip2@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoA dictionary represents modern usage, it doesn’t make it less ignominious to use it 8 times in one article.
minus-squareUntitledQuitting@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-24 hours agoyes it is soo ignominious to use common turns of phrase to convey meaning, they must be so embarassed
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in”
— someone called Greek Proverb.
It’s the exact opposite of these fuckers.
Also:
Ffs Guardian. It’s cringeworthy, or at a push cringey, or embarrassing, or awkward.
I fucking hate “cringe” used as an adjective (or whatever it is).
/rant
bro literally cambridge dictionary has added cringe as an adjective, language changes over time get over it.
adjective
informaluk/krɪndʒ/ us/krɪndʒ/
very embarrassing, because of being so bad or silly: Everything he posts on social media seems so cringe.
When you’re watching the show you constantly think “this is cringe”, but it’s completely addictive!
A dictionary represents modern usage, it doesn’t make it less ignominious to use it 8 times in one article.
yes it is soo ignominious to use common turns of phrase to convey meaning, they must be so embarassed