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That might follow if our use of language were always purely logical; my experience is that this is often not the case.
by BHSPitMonkey 10y ago
That might follow if our use of language were always purely logical; my experience is that this is often not the case.
- johnchristopher 10y agoFollowing up on a conversation I had with my grandmother this morning when she used a denomination that hasn't been heard nor read for more than a century and which led to a dictionary war with me leaving the house in rage against know-it-all old people who can't use everyday word for everyday thing but must conjure up baroque and archaic terms for common household appliance and tell you "only you doesn't know that"... good luck to the aliens.
- macintux 10y agoI had to regularly ask my great-aunt when she'd use the construction "quarter of 12" whether she meant 11:45 or 12:15. Language is bloody hard.