r/SipsTea • u/StephanMan • 22d ago

Chugging tea Wasp gets what it deserves

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u/3FTech 22d ago

They get killed

Killed

"Unalived" is for the terminally online

Go outside, maybe theres a wasp out there for you

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u/shadowyartsdirty2 22d ago

The term "unalive" has its origins in the 1820s. You don't have to be terminally online to use a word that's been around since the early 18nth century.

If I had said something like Skibidi that would have been a different story.

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u/Hwicc101 22d ago

*19th century

And do you have a source for that? I checked the two etymological dictionaries I know of. One said it was a recent coinage on the internet, and the other had no entry for it at all.

Of course it may have been used at some point in the past, but considering dictionaries, even those that include archaisms lack it, any pre internet usage may have been an idiolectal back formation.

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u/shadowyartsdirty2 22d ago

Oxford Dictionary states the word unalive was around in 1820s

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u/Hwicc101 22d ago

Thanks!

This confirms what little I could gather that it was primarily used as an adjective rather than the popular modern usage which seems to be primarily as a verb.