• Themaskofz@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I think it’s more about acknowledging that a lot of people are hyperbolic so they can be perceived as a victim. Anxiety is a real thing but some people act like it’s the peak of human suffrage for attention, and that is worthy of laughing at, not the anxiety itself

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        1 month ago

        Suffrage is one of those English language-internal false friends - you could easily confuse it with a personalised state of suffering, especially if English isn’t your first language (my bigger anxieties around this is finding out a word I used extensively has a different meaning than I thought)…

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          25 days ago

          Or that you’ve been pronouncing a word wrong for years because you’ve only ever read it and never heard from another person. It happened to me multiple times that I’ve read a name usually from mythology wrong (swapping two adjacent letters) and then always read it like that until I pronounced it in front of somebody who corrected me.