• dbtng@eviltoast.org
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    2 months ago

    Ya, I get it that this is the whole joke of the post, but I’m bemused to discover that I’m a slutt datafag.
    I had not anticipated climbing to such a pinnacle in my lifetime.

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      2 months ago

      I have never heard anyone call computer science “datafag”, it’s usually called “informatikk” (like “informatics” which you can also say in English), and “slutt” just means end or stop, I have never heard anyone use it to refer to graduating.

      “Fag” does mean “subject” or “field of study”, though, so computer science is a “fag”, and it might be considered a “realfag” along with the natural sciences, I don’t know.

      Edit: I got corrected below, “datafag” is real

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    2 months ago

    Bottom one is more stop/end computer class, does not imply graduation, though fag is generally used as tradecraft. Which makes the books you use for it fag literature.

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        2 months ago

        Fag in Norwegians has norse origins while faggot developed independently and only recently become a slur and come out of American vernacular.

        In older English it was used to mean a burdensome person and it’s sort of resumed that meaning as it’s now often used to mean someone who is annoying.

        Adding a fun double entendre when used to describe a homophobic person.