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[–] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 37 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Bottom one is more stop/end computer class, does not imply graduation, though fag is generally used as tradecraft. Which makes the books you use for it fag literature.

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Yes, when datafag become slutt computer science end

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Btw, where did faggot come from?

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 hours ago

Fag in Norwegians has norse origins while faggot developed independently and only recently become a slur and come out of American vernacular.

In older English it was used to mean a burdensome person and it's sort of resumed that meaning as it's now often used to mean someone who is annoying.

Adding a fun double entendre when used to describe a homophobic person.

[–] onipa@feddit.org 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Faggot is apparently a bundle of sticks (formerly a burdensome baggage)

apparently kid

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Also the totally appropriate name for the bassoon in some languages, because it looks like a pile of sticks.

There's a noodle called fagottini that I really want to try. I just can't find it in the stores and I am not a noodle maker.

[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Hey it's spelled "fagott" so that's a completely different and did not at all make terminally online teenage boys snicker 15+ years ago

[–] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

From fasces I think, same as fascism.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

I knew those leftists where the real nazi