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minus-squarespujb@lemmy.cafeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-23 months agowhen do you think the last time someone unironically used vim in a sentence apart from vigor it’s like they are married words, ah the romance
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoIt’s a veritable cornucopia alright.
minus-squareDepress_Mode@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·3 months agoThat’s called a fossil word, a word that only ever gets used in a specific phrase. When was the last time you heard the word “inclement” outside of the phrase “inclement weather”?
minus-squarespujb@lemmy.cafeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·3 months agoYAYY WIKIPEDIA RABBIT HOLE TY
minus-squareseconded@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoPBS just did a YouTube short on fossil words: https://youtube.com/shorts/nkvMOwhs2YQ
minus-squarethebeardedpotato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoWhat’s crazy is that my brain didn’t even understand how to read “inclement” for a second until I saw “inclement weather.”
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoand the phrase is “how do I exit VIM?” because nobody actually says vim and vigor anymore.
minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up34·3 months agowhen they’re talking about the editor
minus-squarespujb@lemmy.cafeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agough that shouldn’t count but ur right
when do you think the last time someone unironically used vim in a sentence apart from vigor
it’s like they are married words, ah the romance
It’s a veritable cornucopia alright.
That’s called a fossil word, a word that only ever gets used in a specific phrase. When was the last time you heard the word “inclement” outside of the phrase “inclement weather”?
YAYY WIKIPEDIA RABBIT HOLE TY
PBS just did a YouTube short on fossil words: https://youtube.com/shorts/nkvMOwhs2YQ
What’s crazy is that my brain didn’t even understand how to read “inclement” for a second until I saw “inclement weather.”
and the phrase is “how do I exit VIM?” because nobody actually says vim and vigor anymore.
when they’re talking about the editor
ugh that shouldn’t count but ur right