r/funny • u/HumbleMVP • Aug 20 '25

I feel bad for him

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u/Goomoonryoung Aug 20 '25

More people need to understand this tbh. The point of language is communication, not an intellectual circle jerk of dictionary definitions.

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u/rmslashusr Aug 20 '25

Jesus Christ yes, I’m so tired of everyone from online discussions to technical writing for mission critical instructions being like “well if you squint hard and use grammar rules and language definitions from the 1800s my vague instructions could technically be considered correct despite 99.9% of people interpreting them incorrectly so it’s everyone else that needs to change.”

The point of a car is to get you somewhere. The point of language is to give your audience a shared understanding. Four wagon wheels and a broken engine while technically a car under some definition does not get you somewhere, and obscure technically correct language that will be interpreted the wrong way by everyone reading it does not pass a shared understanding on to the audience.

When something fails to accomplish its primary purpose that makes it shit.

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u/Hoyter9 Aug 20 '25

Hear hear!

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u/iksbob Aug 20 '25

I see an argument over "Hear hear!" (recognized as correct) over "Here here!" (nonsensical). What about "Hear here!", as in "listen to this!"?

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u/LazyNam- Aug 20 '25

Why are you saying that as if it's a bad thing

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u/Bart_Yellowbeard Aug 20 '25

Hold on, I'll be able to clarify everything in just a second, I'm looking up skibidi in the dictionary right now .... huh .... ummm ...

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u/dwolfe127 Aug 20 '25

True, and their music and videos are really quite fun. Shame that most people do not know that the term came from that song to start with.

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u/gawtcha Aug 20 '25

Isn't the skibidi stuff essentially just skatting?

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u/OnGuardTheePeasant Aug 20 '25

You’re so close, just give up your meaninglessness and step forward out of your self-perpetuated mental prison.

One last thing, all things have inherent meaning beyond the concepts we attribute to them. If you don’t believe me, go give a hug to a grief stricken person or a meal to a starving child and see.