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[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 87 points 1 year ago

With anons social and communication skills, I am not sure if pedo or trying to express that being 14 is the best time of your life.

[-] KnifeFighter@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

pedo

So 14 is prepubescent? I must have missed that in my biology studies.

[-] GrimSheeper@lemmy.world 101 points 1 year ago
[-] KnifeFighter@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago

God forbid we actually use words correctly instead of watering down their meanings.

[-] _danny@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

Congratulations on learning that words have no intrinsic meaning, and the dictionary is constantly changing. Prescriptive linguistics is a hopeless battle.

[-] Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Found the descriptive linguist

[-] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

You gotta drop this one, friend. There are better hills to die on. Hills that don't get you labeled a pedophile.

[-] Dieterlan@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I think in this case the meaning is already effectively watered down. At this point it'd probably be easier to just give up and make a new term for pedophilia that is just for pre adolescents, and let pedophilia be the term for all "under age of consent" stuff (as is the current modern usage).

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

God forbid we actually use words of correct colloquial meaning instead of watering down the subject of molesting teens.

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