Talk:wappie

Usage note

@Mnemosientje, I'm not really happy about the second half of "More negative and more markedly associated with conspiratorial thinking and mental illness than gekkie, which in some contexts is used as a milder and even somewhat affectionate near-synonym." It is true that gekkie is usually much milder and can be affectionate, yet there is also milieugekkie (“environmentalist crackpot”) which does not seem milder at all, it is just a snarl word used by climate denialists for "the other side". In this case the difference is merely that the word wappie was way less of a thing back then. I suppose that having gekkie as a synonym was indeed too much, but perhaps there is a middle road. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 14:03, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

@Lingo Bingo Dingo Yeah I wasn't 100% sure either... but I wanted to somehow do justice to the fact that you can affectionately call someone a gekkie, whereas wappie is pretty much unanimously negative (at best, a geuzennaam). If you have an idea of how to better present that information feel free, I'm not a fan of the current wording either. — Mnemosientje (t · c) 19:01, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

@Mnemosientje: What do you think of:

• Wappie is uniformly more negative and more markedly associated with conspiratorial thinking and mental illness than gekkie (“silly (person); crazy, nutjob”), which can be a near-synonym in some contexts, especially in some compounds, but which is generally milder and in most contexts even somewhat affectionate.

Not great either and certainly more long-winded than would be ideal, but it's more explicit that a large part of the difference is that gekkie has a much broader semantic range. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 08:38, 18 June 2021 (UTC)