The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoBut can you imagine if it were?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down11
arrow-up19arrow-down1imageBut can you imagine if it were?lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareGork@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoYounger me? I’d want to change the meaning of that word to this now even at my current age.
minus-squareThief_of_Crows@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months agoBut then you lose great puns, which are half the reason English is such a great language. Consider “American Idiot”: Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn’t meant to be okay. The song works significantly better by using a pun, to say that it’s a nation of the alienated.
Younger me? I’d want to change the meaning of that word to this now even at my current age.
But then you lose great puns, which are half the reason English is such a great language. Consider “American Idiot”:
Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
The song works significantly better by using a pun, to say that it’s a nation of the alienated.