@merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 15 days agoCoincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hublemmy.worldimagemessage-square180fedilinkarrow-up11.01Karrow-down134
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minus-square@brown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink8•15 days agoNot quite what the XKCD is talking about, but my favorite linguistic phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism
minus-square@Klear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•15 days agoI prefer cacophemism. You can make some really fucked up new concepts by replacing eu- (good/well) with caco- (bad): cacology, cacogenics, cacophoria (I guess dysphoria got there first), cacoangelium and my favourite, cacothanasia.
Not quite what the XKCD is talking about, but my favorite linguistic phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism
I prefer cacophemism. You can make some really fucked up new concepts by replacing eu- (good/well) with caco- (bad):
cacology, cacogenics, cacophoria (I guess dysphoria got there first), cacoangelium and my favourite, cacothanasia.