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> If 99% of people in the street can agree on the meaning of a word without much ambiguity then that's a good starting point This turns out to never be true on
by gopher_space 1y ago
> If 99% of people in the street can agree on the meaning of a word without much ambiguity then that's a good starting point
This turns out to never be true once you get into actual details. Try to buy blue house paint for a basic example.
- moralestapia 1y agoI do not understand your comment as buying blue paint is an extremely trivial thing to do unless you're in the middle of the Sahara desert.
- Fargren 1y agoI think they mean there many hues that some people will cal blue and other will disagree. And definitely if you try to buy paint and just say you want "blue" there's a huge spectrum of things you might get This website was doing the rounds not long ago: https://ismy.blue/ https://ismy.blue/
- lanstin 1y agoWhich blue paint? If you are buying by yourself, it might be simple, if you are a decisive sort, but there's more blues than I at least expected.