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Pure authoritarianism (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Demerits for misuse of "say less" and "baka". Other than that, high marks!

"Say less" is etymologically tied to "say no more". It is possible that I am wrong about "baka", because I'm an otaku, but I presume they're using it in the anime way, and not just completely divorcing it from its actual meaning. I might be giving them to much credit.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doest baka more or less just mean "idiot\stupud"?

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then it looks like his statement makes total cringe sense.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

You know what, you're right, the preceding sentence is supposed to be critical of the listener, so they are actually misusing "straight fire", which would imply something good.