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THE DICTATOR - HIV Aladeen

BrykksCited 3× on HN, 2021-2025
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3.5M views · 14 years ago · comedy · evergreen

A short clip from the comedy film The Dictator in which a doctor delivers a test result in a running gag around the name Aladeen.

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@lifestyleguru2025 · in “No it's not a Battleship”

So Americans are now about to replace words in dictionary with word "Trump" or it will only be used as a prefix? [1] [1] ▶ this video

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@darkerside2025 · in “What is the most realistic submarine movie? (2019)”

Both are like the term aladeen. They mean something and its exact opposite. You can only determine from context. ▶ this video

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@Jugurtha2021 · in “Disrespectful “dummy” not allowed in gRPC codebase”

These remind me of "General Aladeen" replacing both the words "positive" and "negative" by "Aladeen"[0]. The scene shows a physician asking a patient: Physician: "Do you want the Aladeen news or the Aladeen news?" Patient: "Aladeen" Physician: "You are HIV Aladeen" There are some words being removed because they are perceived as insulting or disrespectful, and that perception appears to stem from the fact these words refer to a "negative" property. Say, "moron", "idiot", "stupid", "dumb" as opposed to "smart", "sharp", "shrewd", "brilliant", etc. That these words may be hurtful is not the argument. Wouldn't removing words that have antonyms destabilize language by creating a "linguistic void"? Some words refer to an "absence" of something or the opposite of something. "Darkness", "cold", "unstable", "evil". This either creates a sort of "spectrum" of which they are the ends, or a dichotomy with mutual exclusion. These can be deemed as disrespectful as well. Would the language become impractical when amputated from words invented to communicate "lack of something" or opposition to something. For example, if somehow the word "cold" became perceived as disrespectful, how would you describe an entity with that property? Not hot? There are insults that carry their own weight, like racist or homophobic slurs, for example. They don't need or have an opposite/antonym. I was on a forum and someone, knowing where I am from, has used the expression "sand n-word". Now, the moderators dee

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