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"Osmosis vs diffusion is not difficult to understand. It just seems people use it to sound smarter, and thus fail miserably 99% of the time." They fail 99% of
by glhaynes 17y ago
"Osmosis vs diffusion is not difficult to understand. It just seems people use it to sound smarter, and thus fail miserably 99% of the time."
They fail 99% of the time with you, but if the vast majority of the people don't know the difference (as you said they don't), then the misusers aren't failing with the vast majority of listeners. :)
- Groxx 17y agoIncorrect statements are incorrect, whether or not anyone's around to hear the tree fall in the forest. I'll accept ramchip's explanation through simile, but quite literally that's the first time I've heard it (I may live under a rock in that, though). Are you then implying that anything that the majority believes - heck, lets make it 99% - is true, and should be accepted? Lets put it in geek-friendly terms, dating it back a number of years, so it strikes a chord with yc users: "Windows is the only operating system."
- glhaynes 17y agoI was replying to your statement: "It just seems people use it to sound smarter, and thus fail miserably 99% of the time." I'm saying they fail to sound smarter with you but perhaps succeed in sounding smarter [not at being right] with the vast majority.