Varven@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 11 months agoPls someone make this realitylemmy.worldimagemessage-square254fedilinkarrow-up11.76Karrow-down132
arrow-up11.72Karrow-down1imagePls someone make this realitylemmy.worldVarven@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 11 months agomessage-square254fedilink
minus-squareuser134450@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-211 months ago Because it’s a prejudicial term, not because the past isn’t fucking shitty. If that were true then what do you call the classical age? The darker ages?
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·11 months agoWe generally say ‘Antiquity’ and ‘Late Antiquity’ anymore.
minus-squareTrainguyrom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoOoh present-tense anymore! Really don’t see that very often, but it’s got a nice ring to it Edit: it’s a positive anymore not present-tense. Thank you @oktux@lemm.ee!
minus-squareHadriscus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-211 months agoCan you explain please ? I don’t understand their sentence as it is. What’s surprising to me isn’t the present tense, it’s the fact that it isn’t negative.
minus-squareoktux@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 months agoIt sounds odd to me too, but I found a wiki article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore
If that were true then what do you call the classical age? The darker ages?
We generally say ‘Antiquity’ and ‘Late Antiquity’ anymore.
Ooh present-tense anymore! Really don’t see that very often, but it’s got a nice ring to it
Edit: it’s a positive anymore not present-tense. Thank you @oktux@lemm.ee!
Can you explain please ? I don’t understand their sentence as it is. What’s surprising to me isn’t the present tense, it’s the fact that it isn’t negative.
It sounds odd to me too, but I found a wiki article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore
Thanks, TIL I learned