• randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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    8 months ago

    Dumbass me saw “unemployment” and “underemployment”, and went “huh? un-de-re-mployment? what’s that?? that’s a lot of prefixes”. Turns out it’s just under-employment

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        8 months ago

        Under-redeployment. When you don’t put enough boots on the ground and it’s still not a war.

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      8 months ago

      That’s kinda like how “underbed” was for me; like, how do you underb something? Or derb it in the first place, for that matter?