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Why not just “let’s define ours terms so we don’t talk passed each other? What do you mean by X?”
by therealdrag0 4y ago
Why not just “let’s define ours terms so we don’t talk passed each other? What do you mean by X?”
- ajhurliman 4y ago#letsdefineourtermssowedonttalkpassedeachother?whatdoyoumeanbyx? is sorta hard to type out, a shorthand term may lend itself to a common understanding of the situation. Like "a picture of yourself" got coined as a selfie, it seems obvious now through constant use, but there was a time when the phenomenon existed and we had a lexical gap in describing it.
- ambrose2 4y ago“It’s semantics” is the briefest way I usually describe this phenomenon.