• Pissmidget@lemmy.world
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    Bottom one is more stop/end computer class, does not imply graduation, though fag is generally used as tradecraft. Which makes the books you use for it fag literature.

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        Fag in Norwegians has norse origins while faggot developed independently and only recently become a slur and come out of American vernacular.

        In older English it was used to mean a burdensome person and it’s sort of resumed that meaning as it’s now often used to mean someone who is annoying.

        Adding a fun double entendre when used to describe a homophobic person.

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          Also the totally appropriate name for the bassoon in some languages, because it looks like a pile of sticks.