• al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.comBanned from community
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      arrow-down
      28
      ·
      1 year ago

      Lol seriously just block it and move on, if your under 18 turn off the Internet now.

        • Beacon@fedia.io
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          14
          arrow-down
          5
          ·
          1 year ago

          You’re right and it’s even more than that. NSFW literally stands for “Not Safe For Work”, because many people work at jobs where it’s bad for them to be viewing material that isn’t appropriate for the workplace, but they still rightfully want to be able to have some internet fun while they’re there - which is EXACTLY the reason why the nsfw tag was invented. That way everyone can be happy. Except for the other commenter in this thread who is a douche and won’t be happy no matter what happens until they grow up

          • rnercle@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            7
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            You’re at work and you decide “to have some internet fun” hopefully during a break and you’re reading a false article on a linguistic humor community. False text has some sexual terms in it.

            … and a coworker is reading what’s on your screen ?

            What’s your setup for this being nsfw?

            how?

            • Beacon@fedia.io
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              Yes, exactly as you described. Do you not believe that at some workplaces you can get in trouble for displaying sexual words in a publicly viewable space? Because I’d say that that’s how it is in most corporate workplaces

        • al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.comBanned from community
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          28
          ·
          1 year ago

          I’m offended and uncomfortable that they are offended by language and topics I would please ask they mark themselves with the appropriate R€t@R|) tag.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        When you grow up ang get a job, you too will understand the Not Safe For Work tag.

  • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    45
    ·
    1 year ago

    To be clear, this is a falsified version of this article from 2022 (“French officials told to abandon gaming Anglicisms”)

    • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      My experience is that using software translated into my native language, Croatian, is weird and confusing in general. As if it uses overly everyday vocabulary, without the adequately “techy” associations - when I paste (Cro. zalijepiti) something in real life, I do it with glue and it makes an object stand in place; when I paste (Cro. pejstati) something on my computer, I do it with ctrl+v and it results in a moved or duplicated file. Translated software uses the former Croatian word for the latter meaning as well, but to me the associations are much too different.

      Alternatively, the terminology is coined consciously and spread top-down, so it’s alien both to the original English and to everyday Croatian. Some of these terms have ended up accepted (sučelje = interface; probably from the verb sučeliti, to face something), but even after years of exposure in school I can’t digest datoteka (Latin data + theca) for file. So, I stick to English whenever possible.

      Croatian prescriptivists also love making up replacements for those pesky loanwords, but much like the French Academy’s proposals (even those that aren’t a parody: “jeu video de competition” instead of “e-sports”) are cumbersome, overly literal multi-word constructions. They’re not words at all, and I think they’re particularly likely to not be accepted by the speakers. (This could be related to Shkovsky’s idea of defamiliarisation, if you happen to be familiar with that by any chance…)

      • Redex@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Same, I actively avoid using Croatian translations wherever possible because they’re typically bad and sometimes lead to confusion when they translate some feature or option you’re looking for in an unexpected way and then can’t find it.

    • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 year ago

      It is great, but I think the Acedémie Française is actually creating “a barrier to understanding” here. It’s my understanding that ahegeo is a very specific expression, not just a generic o-face. Unless they can come up with a french word for that goofy face they’re going to have to borrow.

      Edit: It seems I have eaten the onion.

  • fartsparkles@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 year ago

    The French calling orgasms “the little death” has always stricken me as most excellent.

    However “The face of the little death” for ahego (don’t google; I just learned the hard way) doesn’t make sense.

    It should be “visage haletant” or something less of a mouthful.

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        The streamer one in particular is like the French version of that 4chan green text about American vs British names. “MFW they call it a ‘gun’ instead of a Rooty Tooty Point And Shoot”

        I don’t speak French so I’m not confident on the syllable count…but it takes like 5x longer to say, right?

  • mel ♀@jlai.lu
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    Knowing how stupid the academicians are, I felt for the trap. Recently, one of them wrote in a far right journal that the upper case was disappearing from French based on a random study from the guardian for English speaking people. It was founded during the monarchy, and collaborated during the German occupation. They should have been destroyed a long time ago (something like 1789)

  • Horsey@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    L’académie is basically a bunch of French teachers that want to stop the natural language shifting in French that occurs in every single language. It’s really not anything more than that. No one in France cares about what they say lol. French actually uses a ton of loanwords where they just simply pronounce them as if they were French words. For a topical example, in English, literally everyone uses the word hentai, pronounced different from in Japanese, for anime porn; anime is also the same type of loan word.

  • SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Ça fait écho a la loi Toubon, où chaque radio française devait diffuser au moins 30% de chansons en français (de souvenir, corrigez moi si je me trompe…). Cette loi avait lancé une polémique sur les chansons mixtes français/langue étrangère, a l’époque de la percée de Khaled, Fodel mais aussi le folklore de Voulzy et sa chanson qui résumait les années rock.

    Pluss de contrôle, pluss de novlangue, la même merde: les élites ont peur, ça vacille en haut, le peuple ronchonne (il ne se révolte pas), la boucle continue.

    La routine habituelle.

    On attend tous de voir le bloc américain s’effondrer et de mesurer les conséquences: une Europe faible et coupable face a un tiers monde revenchard et une Chine/Russie gourmandes, dans un contexte de détérioration de climat, avec populations déplacées et autres sécheresses.

    Des bisous et rendez vous dans le prochaine épisode de: triste monde tragique (sick sad world)