badposting
badposting is a comm where you post badly
This is not a !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net alternative. This is not a !memes@hexbear.net alternative. This is a place for you to post your bad posts.
Ever had a really shitty bit idea? Joke you want to take way past the point of where it was funny? Want to feel like a stand-up comedy guy who's been bombing a set for the past 30 minutes straight and at this point is just saying shit to see if people react to it? Really bad pun? A homemade cringe concoction? A cognitohazard that you have birthed into this world and have an urge to spread like chain mail?
Rules:
- Do not post good posts.
- Unauthorized goodposting is to be punished in the manner of commenting the phrase "GOOD post" followed by an emoji that has not yet been used in the thread
- Use an emoticon/kaomoji/rule-three-abiding ASCII art if the rations run out
- This is not a comm where you direct people to other people's bad posts. This is a comm where you post badly.
- This rule intentionally left blank.
- If you're struck for rule 3, skill issue, not allowed to complain about it.
Code of Conduct applies just as much here as it does everywhere else. Technically, CoC violations are bad posts. On the other hand: L + ratio + get ~~better~~ worse material bozo
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The same thing happened to terrible vs terrific. Words used in ambiguous contexts can drift in meaning over time.
No, the same thing didn't happen to terrible vs terrific. In the case of terrific, people actually inverted the meaning of the word and actually made it ambiguous, and now mostly use the inverted meaning.
People like to say that it happened to literally, but it actually never happened. It has not even SLIGHTLY happened, but people are trying to make it happen - nobody actually uses it that way.
The only context where literally is sometimes used to mean figuratively is during discussions about the word itself and the supposed shift in the meaning of the word
Literally has actually shifted to a filler word, or a placeholder for a curse word, but it has never shifted to mean non-literal.
What actually happened is that people think that if you say the word literally, the sentence can't have figurative language in it. Which is just wrong. Plenty of people say "oh my god I actually fucking died" or "I honestly fucking died" "oh my god I DIED" or "bro I immediately DIED" and yet for some reason nobody claims that "actually" means "in the realm of fantasy" or "honestly" means "dishonestly" or "I" means "someone other than myself, clearly" or "immediately" means "at the ripe old age of 85"
And I mean dictionaries do not have entries for immediately that say "eventually" with footnotes about the shift in the English language because the editor heard someone claim to be "dead" while also being alive
It's people misunderstanding what words are and how they work, and loading "literally" with way way too many expectations
Of course words shift. But if I said "left also means right, and that's okay because the meaning of words shifts" it's like no, people are not doing that. That hasn't happened. I also hope it doesn't get spoken into existence because people will die in car crashes a lot if it somehow actually happens.
Ok now I get you! It has become an intensifier, but it has not acquired new meanings.
Exactly!
Not exactly?
lmao check out ChatPPB’s comment @SerLava@hexbear.net
That fucking people smh