What's a word you wish you could unlearn?

  • Level 1: You don't recognise the word
  • Level 2: No one recognises the word
  • Level 3: The action the word describes no longer exists
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53 Comments

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 69 pts · 1y (14 replies)

degloving

AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 1y

Alright, this ends the thread.

davel@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hey I was still using those.

protist@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 1y

Sorry, didn't realize you still needed your skin. Here, you can have it back

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

Is that like mclovin?

gregor@gregtech.eu · 1 pts · 1y (9 replies)

Removing gloves? Also this implies the existence of "gloving"

Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y (8 replies)
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gregor@gregtech.eu · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yes, I regret typing it into Wikipedia

Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
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dxc@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

On Christmas Eve 201X, I was on duty on the ambulance. Here I thought I'm just jumping in for 3 hours since everybody else was busy. Big regret. We got called to a "seemingly dead person" who was living right next door to his sons' family flat. When we arrived, son opened his dad's flat and that old sucker was lying in the bathtub, water fucking hot like he just put it in. Every part of his that was outside the water was stiff as fuck, like neck and arms. Everything else was fucking boiled. So of course we try to put him somewhere with more space, the living room. My colleague took him by his armpits, I took his legs. The legs, as well done as they were, I couldn't take them. I tried to pull him up but only ended up with a handful of skin, it peeled off so smoothly. I hate that I still remember it. Never heard what happened after, we almost instantly gave that over to police.

FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 3 pts · 1y

Our definitions of "fun" must differ quite significantly :|

christophski@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What kind of illness causes that? Radiation poisoning?

Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
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SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Burns can do it. I saw a hand where a finger was degloved because a person was climbing with a ring on and the ring snagged when he fell.

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

I read about a guy who fell into boiling water. When someone tried to pull them out the skin on their hand came off instead.

JWBananas@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Enshittification

just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

A very useful word, though.

user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 12 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I'll try, but I am not the smartest with lvl. 2 and 3.

Level 1: Sounding
Level 2: God
Level 3: Wrongdoing

hddsx@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (4 replies)
  1. ???? No replacement word
  2. Deity
  3. fault
dnick@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Not sure what you're attempting there, trying to make it so his choices aren't useful?

hddsx@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

The first one is.

EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)
  1. Either urethral insertion or dilation (depending on your preference)
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

Two words though

Zementid@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 1y

Capitalism/Greed on Level 3 please.

blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk · 10 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I'd be very happy to never hear a scandal described by having "gate" as a suffix.

jrubal1462@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y

Please wait. Before the suffix -gate goes away for good I want a fence-related scandal that we can call gate-gate. Then it can be retired.

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Or cyber as a prefix

pineapple@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I don't understand why is gate a suffix at all?

reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I can't believe no one said skibidi

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y

My knowledge of that "word" is the fact that it exists and that is all. There is nothing for me to unlearn.

0x01@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Smegma 🥴

teawrecks@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y

Don't you mean santorum?

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

gooning

just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I had to look it up. Ew

LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y

"****"

DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hemicorporectomy

EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Removing half the body by cleaving the left and right sides apart.

akkajdh999@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y
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froh42@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Level 3 is a big part of the storyline in "The Memory Police" by Yoko Ogawa

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Solid recommendation, thank you

Asidonhopo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

This ask reminds me of this Kids in the Hall sketch

https://youtu.be/lStcwT_RGrQ

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y

I delineate that to be true

Anissem@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

Meekrob

pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Scaphism

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 1y

the victim being trapped between two small boats, one inverted on top of the other, with limbs and head sticking out, feeding them and smearing them with milk and honey, and allowing them to fester and be devoured by insects and other vermin over time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Um.

electronVolt@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

The word 'due' as in 'due to covid.' I hear it everywhere now, especially from young people. I want the word 'because' to make a comeback.

da_peda@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Fashist

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 1y

"Actually it's 'facism'.'"

"Lovely!"

dsilverz@thelemmy.club · 0 pts · 1y (9 replies)
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toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Was my generation's slang bad? No, it is the young people

kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Our slang was bomb, yo. The shiznit!

EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Slap'n

FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

yes, yes it was

we made literally and figuratively mean the same thing!

akkajdh999@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
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sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

we made literally and figuratively mean the same thing!

Only figuratively though, not literally.

dsilverz@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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can@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y

I think their reality is likely the most bizarre.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

It's cute how you're putting an s on 'slang', like you do with 'traffic'.