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Cake day: August 27th, 2023

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  • Is it too late to avoid perpetuating the Reddit culture of adding “Porn” to titles of Fediverse communities?

    As you can see in your title and description for this post, you have to stop and reiterate every time that your community is safe for work. It’s just bad branding.

    Why not:

    sublimeguitars

    stunningguitars

    pureguitars

    guitar-awe

    Woah, imagine niche communities of incredible photography that all use -awe, as a suffix. And then there’s an accompanying sister community with -aww as a suffix.

    Could have everything cute that features a guitar and a puppy or whatever in guitaraww. And stunning guitar gear and photography in guitarawe.






  • Chinchillax@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonecow balls rule
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    4 months ago

    The English language is missing a gender neutral term for a cow/bull.

    Cows are female

    Bulls are male

    Steers are castrated bulls

    Cattle - the term for multiple cows and/or bulls and/or steers

    It’s odd because every other animal with gendered language has a gender neutral term. Take chicken for example.

    Hens are female

    Roosters (or Cocks) are male

    Capons are castrated roosters

    It’s so nice to have a word like chicken to describe all these animals. But no word for that exists for cow/bull in English.

    The writer of the tumblr post above either didn’t know the right word to use would be “Bull,” or the writer wanted to make sure they were understood so used the word Cow. Which… linguistically at this point may have become the gender neutral term for this animal because people need one.

    Cow is such a common word, and bull is so uncommon that to be understood by everyone, cow might just be the best word.

    Though anyone with knowledge of animal husbandry would be baffled because by the strict definition cows are always female.

    I’m sorry you had to learn this nightmare language.











  • Chinchillax@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    1 year ago

    By the time I’ve called the police (which would feel utterly horrible), and the police have confirmed it was just plastic, I’d be a rattled mess for a long time. (I’m already mildly mentally ill and this would not help)