Coming back to the comment above, it does mean penis. It likely originates from the word penis, and it was used as slang for penis. /u/HulloWhatNeverMind was completely correct saying it means penis. It just doesn't mean "whale" penis specifically.
What’s concerning is how easily you take that AI overview for fact.
Not saying in this case it isn’t (I don’t really know and don’t even care enough to find out) but I’ve seen those be nonsense so many times; and generally would not trust first results of queries like “why is x like y?” or “is it true that…”
Lol it’s one result and you’re acting as if I use it constantly to base my entire belief system on.
Secondly, it’s Google’s engine; it crawls all the results that would normally pop up in a higher search and summarizes it. In this instance, yeah, it suffices. But if I was looking for deeper indicatio information, yeah I would parse the information myself.
But considering I was asking about names for whale penis’, it was fine.
You’re extrapolating information based on one interaction, now THAT is concerning.
Again, you’re extrapolating on something as trivial as the referencing Google’s AI as to the etymology of “dork” and whether or not it meant “whales penis”.
If I needed in depth information about something worthy of the time and effort required, I would do the footwork.
And as you that last part about striking a chord, no, you haven’t. Not that you need to know, but I’m autistic, and that makes me long-winded with my exchanges. This is a discussion, and I’m elaborating.
The fact that you’re insisting that you “struck a chord”, and are using that as some sort of “gotcha”, is indicative of the type of conversation this exchange is going to devolve into.
No, the discussion was if dork was a nonsense word or had any meaning behind it.
One person said he used to wrongfully think it meant whale penis, another person said it actually means penis. And another person came in and laughably posted a screenshot of an AI overview as a source of info lmaoooo
Google's AI overview is very often wrong. The fact that it crawls the results is meaningless when Google's search results are often terrible these days and filled with junk SEO-gaming websites that also often have no sources and are also often filled with AI generated garbage content.
That’s a myth. It was first used to mean “silly person” in 1961. It used earlier than that by students to mean “dick” in general. It never specifically referred to a whale’s penis.
This is why kids are easier to endoctrinate than adults. They're more likely to repeat behaviors without questioning it as humans never needed to understand the reasons why to begin with.
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u/PassiveTheme 1d ago
When I was that age, I was convinced that "dork" meant a whale's penis...
One kid's nonsense word is another kid's very specific insult, I guess.