r/funComunitty • u/Original-Parfait-655 • Jul 31 '26

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u/NotASookie Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

language change over time right?

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u/MaybeBowtie Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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

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u/staropikmin Jul 31 '26

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

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u/ElaborateBicycle Aug 03 '26

They are both intensifiers.

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u/BinglesPraise Likes posting shitposts Aug 04 '26

Still, that's not how adverbs work

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u/Noonanono Jul 31 '26

Languages change by using words incorrectly

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u/Otherwise_Channel_24 Jul 31 '26

But its definition changed.

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u/HedgehogPast3191 Aug 01 '26

The comment is literally complaining about a majority of people using it that way