I have noticed lately that a lot of users on Lemmy spell whining as “whinging” what’s up with that? I could understand if it was misspelled “wining” or somthing but that extra g really confuses me. Is this a misspelling specific for some region or is it lingo of some sort?

  • @Smirk
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    129 months ago

    Seems like a fair assessment, even if it’s unprovable. Not a bad heuristic to assume things get adopted from the biggest show to have ever aired.

    You got a counter claim?

    • @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

      Yes.

      Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon. They heard it on the show and started hearing it everywhere. It wasn’t mass adopted after the fact.

      • @Smirk
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        79 months ago

        Not bad, both easily plausible. Next time you disagree, offer a civil counterclaim and it’s more likely to go down well.

        How hard was that?

          • @Smirk
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            29 months ago

            “But then you wouldn’t get all worked up about it”

            READ: “You’re right”

            Take care mate, it’s only a post. Peace

      • Perrin42
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        59 months ago

        This is probably closer to the truth, as I first heard it in Firefly in 2002 before I started hearing it everywhere.