Bgugi@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoIs thinly-veiled political whinging really a question just because you used a question mark?message-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up170
arrow-up170message-squareIs thinly-veiled political whinging really a question just because you used a question mark?Bgugi@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareDonjuanme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoWhinging eh? I read that similar to whinching or winging though I know you mean whining. If we’re tossing in question marks?
minus-squareReCursing@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months agoWhinge is a perfectly reasonable word
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-22 months agoShhh, you’ll confuse the Americans who have never bothered to know anything about the culture of one of their most ideologically similar allies who literally speak the same language.
minus-squareApepollo11@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoI’m not entirely sure I read your comment correctly, but it sounds like you’ve never heard the word “whinging” before. For the avoidance of doubt, it’s a real word. It rhymes with “hinging”.
minus-squaretuck182@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoAnd in the UK at least it’s a distinct word and meaning from whining. In the US I think we just use “whining” for both meanings.
minus-squareAnAmericanPotato@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agohttps://www.dictionary.com/browse/whinge
Whinging eh? I read that similar to whinching or winging though I know you mean whining. If we’re tossing in question marks?
Whinge is a perfectly reasonable word
Shhh, you’ll confuse the Americans who have never bothered to know anything about the culture of one of their most ideologically similar allies who literally speak the same language.
I’m not entirely sure I read your comment correctly, but it sounds like you’ve never heard the word “whinging” before.
For the avoidance of doubt, it’s a real word. It rhymes with “hinging”.
And in the UK at least it’s a distinct word and meaning from whining. In the US I think we just use “whining” for both meanings.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whinge