Comment on What's a word that means a common saying which is arguably untrue?

• galloog1@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If enough people agree, yes.

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  • voidMainVoid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don’t.

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    • 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.

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      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I love when people try to argue against the point you’re making. And by sheer coincidence, the “correct” definition of words just happens to be whatever the definition was when they were growing up.

        I wish just once that one of the “words shouldn’t change” people doubled down and refused to speak anything but early modern English from 500 years ago.

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