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?

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    1 year 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?

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      1 year ago

      Yes.

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

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        Sandor Clegane is #4 most related topic when searching “Whinge” on google trends even though that episode aired several years ago. It’s a reasonable assumption. Go look for yourself.

        Can we not do that Reddit thing where people just accuse people of bad faith or attribute literally everything they don’t agree with to a fallacy or some such? If you or the other person had literally taken 30 seconds to look at Google trends, you might have even come to the same conclusion yourselves.

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        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?

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            1 year ago

            This is the kind of act we really don’t need around here. We have enough trolls on other forums. At least try and act with a hint of mutual respect here dude.

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

            READ: “You’re right”

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

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