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This kind of comment could be written about almost anything and is fundamentally un-interesting. You chose to write "weirdo" instead of "screwball" or "bozo" and probably think the more modern "weirdo" captures your intent the best. I'm sure the original authors had a similar thought.

It can't be written for pages that use regular English. I think you missed that "smol" is an in group marker. Using such quirky in group markers like that can limit the audience or give some potential readers a bad impression from the readers opinion on such a group. It's fair feedback to suggest that if someone wants to target a larger audience that they should be careful with their language and go back to regular English.

> Using such quirky in group markers like that can limit the audience or give some potential readers a bad impression from the readers opinion on such a group.

Good, I think the kind of people who would feel the use of "smol" impacts their enjoyment of this kind of project are not really the target audience anyway.

right, but it appears they prioritize sending a strong signal to the people this *is* for over attracting some normies. keep it smol. if I were them and I wanted to address the outgroup I might start the article with "the old computer challenge is" or "this year's old computer challenge is", for example, instead of "the old computer challenge community is".

>Smol is an intentional misspelling of "small" that expresses affection for animals, people, or objects. (M-W online)

Seems like a perfectly cromulent (apposite) word use.

No, it seems out of place. Normal usage of “smol” is <https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/smol>. This does not seem to fit.

From your link

> Smol (often paired with lorge or bean), is an Internet slang term used to describe any animal, character, or object that is considered very tiny and cute

So how's that different?

A “group of enthusiasts” is neither an animal, character, or an object. Nor is it “cute”.

> Nor is it “cute”.

Eye of the beholder and all…

Just let people write funny stuff

Pretty much. Don't take it all too seriously.

It’s Reddit coded. I agree.

no, let people be weirdos in peace

Its an incredibly millenial word and very cringey

to be cringe is to be free

No!

I'm from Spain so I know how to write weird Germanic as in this site... and odd Latin mixed with

- Greek, but that's the default among Latin on borrowing technical/scientifc words since forever and today.

- Basque (tons of them to put there)

- Iberian (Perro?)

- Gothic (casa, sofá, banco, guardia...)

- French (Carnet, garage...)

- Italian (Most Enlightenment related artsy words)

- Arabic (Most al- starting words)

- English (Modern stuff)

So, we all should switch to a pure language, maybe Icelandic and Indoeuropean. And Basque/Iberian in my case. Altough Basque and Iberian share the same numerals... so who knows.

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