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by sasattack 1265 days ago
How exactly do you still say things like this in 2022. You know like words have a contextual meaning based on how they're used by people?
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Oh, so like 2+2=5 now, because enough of people have repeated that phrase often enough that it's gained its own contextual meaning and thus is now a truth we should accept without questioning?
You're still saying like really absurd things that people on the Internet have been saying for 20 Years.

We're not talking about mathematics. we're talking about language something that's extremely Malleable. has always changed will always change and will always have people like you upset about it .

And by the way we just decided as a group that 1 = a single unit and doesn't mean 2.5 units