Comment on What's a word that means a common saying which is arguably untrue?
SuiXi3D@kbin.social 6 months agoLanguage is fun like that. Kinda like how ‘literally’ can, and often does, mean ‘figuratively’, which has the opposite meaning.
Comment on What's a word that means a common saying which is arguably untrue?
SuiXi3D@kbin.social 6 months agoLanguage is fun like that. Kinda like how ‘literally’ can, and often does, mean ‘figuratively’, which has the opposite meaning.
voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The meaning of a word doesn’t change just because you use it incorrectly.
GiveOver@feddit.uk 6 months ago
It does if lots of people use it incorrectly
Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That is literally how language works. Words only mean what we mean when we say them.
voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So if I potato, you can ottoman?
galloog1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If enough people agree, yes.
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Language morphology, but you’re close. Except for that last sentence, technically. That’s some bullshit, right there. 🤣