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Brand New Sentence

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Showcasing the brazen and nouveau in English communication.

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[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 points 4 weeks ago

Can’t help feeling like “disfellowshipped” strikes a different tone than the words it replaced (shunned, excommunicated, defrocked, exiled, etc).

It’s as if someone invented a word that means, specifically, “you are no longer welcome to partake in the fake friendship I share with others, and I will no longer pretend to care about you” to which the only appropriate response is… gratitude?