How did this word come to mean its exact opposite?
>>24145073Because nothing and nobody is successful anymore
>>24145080China is.
>>24145088cope
>>24145073It actually does mean close to the same thing but people use it in a derogatory sense by claiming it is a bad thing to downplay how bad your situation is rather than catastrophizing it. There's certainly a time to deal with grievances but there comes a point when people are looked down on for tolerating it.
>>24145107Why do you suppose that is?
>>24145073The word is more complex than that definition suggests, it reduces it down to common modern usage which strips all the nuance away. The modern usage primarily comes from 16th century usage of a battle, to contend with something, generally implying fairly equal match and success. As often happens the word was put to more figurative uses, internal battles and the like and other meanings of the word were pulled in as well, primarily cope as a covering which is often superficial; now that internal struggle is the battle between who one really is and the image one presents of themselves or the world which is invariably a superficial covering over the truth.If you want to understand words you need a better dictionary or at least go to a used book store and buy a few cheap old dictionaries at least a few decades apart from each other, generally you can get the big ones from the past century or so for not much money with a little digging. Either way, the free online ones suck, at the very least get one of those heavy 6" thick dictionaries from a few decades ago to supplement the free online ones.
>>24145073I've actually always been uncertain whether "cope" as a one-word reply is meant as a noun (i.e. "[This is a] cope") or as an imperative (i.e. "[Go] cope [about it])
>>24146026Have you never heard anyone say cope and seethe?
>>24145073A lot of words do. It’s called a contronym. Freud coined the term and wrote about it extensively.
Because people behind 4chan are good at psy ops
>>24145073>How did this word come to mean its exact opposite?Every word means its exact opposite, it is in Lacan people.
>>24145088Except at having a sexual identity, the key to all art. China will never be able to produce a Bladee or a Marilyn Manson. And it's only men like that that make life worth living
>>24146026>cope>seethe>dilate>have sexseems like the latter case
>>24146026Either, depends on the context.
>>24145073it means the same thing i'd read this to get a better understanding of copingthink of it more as attempting to situate/orient yourselfwhen people say cope it's because it's people who get something conflicting with their standard way of being, and need to re-orient themselves
>>24145073Are you ESL?
>>24145127It's the increased visibility of injustice, both real and perceived, and politically motivated violence in a hypermediated society. It should be a surprise to no one that silent desperation is frowned upon now.
>>24145073Jews bastardized english. Here is the original meaning in the dictionaryhttps://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Cope>to cope with signifies to interchange blows
