• 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        All you’re doing is being a grammar nazi to someone who at most said the equivalent of “$30 million dollars”, which is technically, thanks to the dollar sign, “thirty million dollars dollars”.

        You knew what they meant. I knew what they meant. Everyone knew what they meant. There was absolutely zero ambiguity, so you just come off looking like a prick.

            • SaltSong@startrek.website
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              8 hours ago

              Possibly not.

              But “We know what he meant” when someone demonstrates that they don’t know what they are talking about has proven to be dangerous.

              I wouldn’t hire a mechanic who thought cats traveled at miles per MPH. Why should I listen to someone talk about boats who thinks “knots per hour” is a speed?

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        If we are being really pedantic. Knots is a measure of distance, and the fact that people have been using that wrong for several centuries does not turn a rope tied at one point into a time-changing object.

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          21 hours ago

          Knots is a measure of distance, and the fact that people have been using that wrong for several centuries

          We’ve only been sailing for “several centuries.” How long was it a measure of distance before people started using it wrong?

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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          fact that people have been using that

          The way language works is that people use things and they become correct.

          There’s things I hate, too, like “yea” now being a spelling for “yeah”. But it’s useless to fight it.