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"I have failed to invent a light bulb" Broken implies it was working to begin with, or can be compared to something that works, as the post you're replying to s
by hudon 3y ago
"I have failed to invent a light bulb" Broken implies it was working to begin with, or can be compared to something that works, as the post you're replying to states.
- ouid 3y agoNo. Your attempt is now just shards of glass. It's borked. Before it was broken, it didn't work, but now its broken.
- hudon 3y agosure, but the thing that's broken was just that, a "thing". It wasn't a "lightbulb", because it was never able to produce light. It's a broken "bulb", at best, and that's a correct use of the word "broken", because it can be compared to other bulbs that aren't broken, in this case the glass bulb itself.
- JAlexoid 3y agoNever having operated as desired and broken are different concepts. My square wheel isn't broken, because it's square.
- ouid 3y agoSeems like you just didnt read what I wrote.
- rchaud 3y agoNobody knows what a lightbulb is as it hasn't been invented. What you did was fail to reinvent the candle.
- ineedasername 3y agoI know what lots of things are that have yet to be invented. Space elevators and their variations, for example.