Comment on Prehistoric Crossroads
sxan@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
So, I came to ask whether that is really prehistory, given that we have cave paintings of wooly mammoths. So I looked it up, and prehistory is anything before the first known structured writing system, and cave art and bone carvings don’t count.
So, TIL.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I mean, words are defined based on how people use them, they don’t have precise objective definitions like that. Words are messy, subjective, and the meaning is dependent on the context and culture it’s being used in. I’m sure in some academic contexts that is the accurate definition, but there will also be cultures and contexts where your original intuition about the meaning was correct.
sxan@midwest.social 1 week ago
Naw, my gut instinct was just straight up wrong, dog. It’s Ok. It’s neither the first, nor the last, time I’m going to be wrong. It’s good, because it means I sometimes verify before making claims.
But I appreciate the spirit of your attempt to make me look less ignorant.
Doveryay, no proveryay.