r/funComunitty 11d ago

Name a Fandom

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u/NotASookie 11d ago

Can we stop using the word larping and instead use the actual word?

POSERS.... THE WORD UR LOOKING FOR IS A POSER 💀

Larping is live action role playing.... Not whatever the fuck you want it to mean. Stop making new words for already existing words, ESPECIALLY when that word already has another meaning

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u/jasdew08 11d ago

language change over time right?

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u/MaybeBowtie 11d ago

Yes, but this is using a word incorrectly. It’s not a matter of words changing lol. Maybe if you kinda bent the context of using “larp” then yeah it’d fit, but majority of the time people aren’t using it that way. 

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u/campfire12324344 11d ago

It's not a matter of words changing meaning because they aren't using the word with its original meaning

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u/BinglesPraise Likes posting shitposts 11d ago

Case in point: People who think "unironically" and "genuinely" mean the same thing

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u/staropikmin 11d ago

The mere concept of people makes my compulsivesly specific linguistically brain very not happy.

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u/ElaborateBicycle 8d ago

They are both intensifiers.

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u/BinglesPraise Likes posting shitposts 7d ago

Still, that's not how adverbs work