Language morphology, but you’re close. Except for that last sentence, technically. That’s some bullshit, right there. 🤣
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Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 6 months agoThat is literally how language works. Words only mean what we mean when we say them.
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 6 months ago
voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So if I potato, you can ottoman?
galloog1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If enough people agree, yes.
voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They don’t.
galloog1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s actually the point. Nobody agrees that potato=ottoman but if enough people agree on a meaning it starts to become the meaning or at least a partial meaning. Maybe the point is moot with you but I get the feeling you wouldn’t understand the joke.