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      • Encode1307@lemm.eeEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        That’s not what nefarious means.

        adjective: nefarious (typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal. “the nefarious activities of the organized-crime syndicates”

        • edward@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          118·
          1 year ago

          I never understand people who obsess with words instead of language itself, not trying to disrespect you, but it’s like you are trying to prove a point or go in too deep, when the answer is very simple. It’s all about the context. You can safely say it’s criminal to show a month-old post in “Hot”.

          • fhqwgads@possumpat.ioEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            Except that nefarious is not a direct synonym for criminal. Nefarious has a subtext of specific underhanded malicious intent, whereas criminal doesn’t have the same intentional connotations.

            If one were to read about a “Criminal website”, it might have instructions on how to make a bomb or something like that, whereas a “nefarious website” is likely to be read as looking normal but stealing your information.

            By calling the sorting nefarious, OP has (likely) unintentionally implied that there is an underlying sinister reason for the issues, which is not likely to be the case.

          • Encode1307@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I guess I’d want to know if I was using a word incorrectly. I understand what they’re trying to say, but nefarious doesn’t make sense in this context. Maybe my pedantic correction prevents them from looking dumb in the future.

          • HamSwagwich@showeq.comEnglish
            01·
            1 year ago

            Because words have meanings? If words just mean anything you want them to mean then they mean nothing.