Comment on Maths

• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  You should be asking yourself that. ;)

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• nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  There’s usually a long explanation for these types of things which most of the time boils down to “because that’s how people have been saying it and it’s become the norm.”

  Many linguistical mistakes have been overused to the point of them changing their meaning. Take “decimation”. It used to mean to kill 1 in every 10. Because it sounds cool and has been used in a lot of media, it now mainly means to kill or destroy a large part of something.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    The meaning of “siege” has gone from sitting outside a castle or town until everyone starves to just about any kind of military action involving a building. Probably partly because the Iran embassy Siege off the 80s was endlessly represented on TV by footage of the SAS breaking the siege by abseiling through the windows.

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