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?
Yes.
Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon. They heard it on the show and started hearing it everywhere. It wasn’t mass adopted after the fact.
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.
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?
But then you wouldn’t get all worked up about it
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.
“But then you wouldn’t get all worked up about it”
READ: “You’re right”
Take care mate, it’s only a post. Peace
This is probably closer to the truth, as I first heard it in Firefly in 2002 before I started hearing it everywhere.