merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 23 days agoCoincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hublemmy.worldimagemessage-square185fedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down135
arrow-up1980arrow-down1imageCoincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hublemmy.worldmerari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 23 days agomessage-square185fedilink
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·23 days agoNot quite what the XKCD is talking about, but my favorite linguistic phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·23 days agoI 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.
Relevant xkcd
Not quite what the XKCD is talking about, but my favorite linguistic phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism
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.