wildcardology ,

So folk songs are fairy songs?

intensely_human ,

“folk” does not refer to mythical creatures

Anticorp ,

Idk, but I had a CD by Queer as Folk given to me by a gay friend, and that music kicked ass. Maybe it has to do with that music? I think the music was the soundtrack to a TV show. Maybe it has to do with that TV show?

SouthEndSunset ,

I don’t know, I don’t say that but I do say “right wing folk”. Clueless as to what that means though.

Jarix ,

I dont know, but did anyone else giggle like an idiot because they always liked to say to myself, Queer ass Folk instead of Queer as Folk.

And im like mostly sure thats what the show runners wanted, but im okay pretending they didnt and im just amusing myself

And for the record i just like the wordplay in spite of it not being particularly clever and very obvious.

Yes i do like terrible puns as well. Not sorry

uriel238 , (edited )
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Queer folk are your community members where queer people are a demographic of the population.

In my case queer folk and trans folk and LGBT+ folk come from a tip from Santa training, where you talk about a kid's folks instead of parents, so as to not raise issues when kids don't have them but guardians instead.

Queer folk are the people among my crew and homies and mates who identify as queer or queer-adjacient.

Okokimup ,
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I just want to say I get where you're coming from. It sounds similar to the way people say "fairy folk" which I assume is why you mention mythical creatures. I guess a lot of people in this thread are less familiar with that usage.

BaroqueInMind ,

You sound really pretentious by judging how other people communicate with benign words that you don't like.

HubertManne ,

why do people care so much about the use of one word over another?

Pat_Riot ,
@Pat_Riot@lemmy.today avatar

Why do some folks care what you eat, how you dress, who you fuck? It's because they don't know how to live without trying to push their own way onto everyone around them.

Kolanaki ,
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The prose sounds better.

iiGxC ,

I used to not use "folk" but have switched cause it's easier to type 😅

geography082 ,

Don’t know. Don’t care

Snowpix ,
@Snowpix@lemmy.ca avatar

Then why bother even writing that comment? You clearly cared enough to do so.

inb4_FoundTheVegan ,
@inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world avatar

Virtue signaling. It's important to them that everyone knows they don't care.

ada ,
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Folk is a gender neutral alternative to guys/girls etc. It's used where you might use a term like that, not where you'd use "people"

rickyrigatoni ,
@rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee avatar

Do people still use folx as a gender neutral alternative to an already gender neutral word or was that not as much of a thing as it seemed

ada ,
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It was never really a thing in my experience.

PhlubbaDubba ,

Folk just means people, in fact it's less pretentious because it's the commoner english word for people, from English's germanic roots (see the german word Volk)

MelastSB ,

They're not people, folk them

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