• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
        4·
        1 year ago

        “more modern” = people are saying it on reddit

    • Okami@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      That is a load-bearing “(no explanation necessary)”.

      I’d love to see an explanation. How did we get from ‘clowder’ to ‘destruction’? Gaining a syllable and losing alliteration is not a typical linguistic evolution. Who’s actually using this term?

      The closest I’ve seen actual examples of is a tongue-in-cheek ‘catastrophe of cats’, and that never went mainstream as far as I’m aware.