If enough people use it wrong, it becomes right.
Comment on bugs
Lizardking27@lemmy.world 5 months ago“a: any of an order (Hemiptera and especially its suborder Heteroptera) of insects (such as an assassin bug or chinch bug) that have sucking mouthparts, forewings thickened at the base, and incomplete metamorphosis and are often economic pests”
This is the primary and most correct definition of bug.
Yes, people use it wrong. That doesn’t change the definition of the word.
samus12345@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Now you get to learn the difference between descriptive and prescriptive definitions.
the_artic_one@programming.dev 5 months ago
Actually it does, that’s how language works.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 months ago
Colloquial language for the salt of the earth