• crime [she/her, any]
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    2 years ago

    At one point macarone was slang for fashionable in London because someone was in Italy heard the word and thought it sounded cool without knowing what it meant

    The song Yankee Doodle explicitly dunks on this sort of person

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      it's more complicated than that the song Yankee Doodle dunks on Americans for calling things macarone that the singer deems uncool.

      both the song and the people it's making fun of use macarone to mean fashionable