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by ineedasername 174 days ago
>"Even a broken clock is right two times per day."

That is incorrect. There are any number of ways in which a clock might be broken such that its hands are not in the correct position even once per day.

2 comments

Not incorrect so much as underspecified?

The phrase more commonly starts with a ‘stopped’ clock, which works more clearly.

Should be “a stopped clock is right twice a day”