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[–] n0respect@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

thanks for teaching me a new word!

that said, i think that some of us forget what it was like to go to school - especially how fucking boring i was. any phrase that would get a rise.. in my school, it was one dude yelling "BIG BOOTY HOES" and then everyone who heard it would yell 'UP WIT IT"

good times.

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

How shibboleth came to mean password or dog whistle instead of an ear of wheat is from a pretty dark bible story:

And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.