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> People in your region have heard a term and misunderstood it. Language is how people use it. That sounds like a perfectly valid route to adding a colloquial
by InitialLastName 4y ago
> People in your region have heard a term and misunderstood it.
Language is how people use it. That sounds like a perfectly valid route to adding a colloquial meaning to a word.
- jameshart 4y agoI’m as descriptivist as the next enlightened linguistic scholar, but this phrase has a specific meaning in traffic codes. Misunderstanding it is dangerous.
- kube-system 4y agoThe initial mention of it in this thread was not in a legal context.