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WD-40 and some tape are the only tools you need in this life. (pawb.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I only learned this very recently! I guess it makes sense, it's like electro-execution

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Exactly!

I mean, if you look in dictionaries, you'll see both definitions, but as I said to another user in this thread, dictionaries include a definition because it is common, not because it is accurate. Just look up the term "literal"; most common dictionaries define it as meaning either "literal" or "figurative".

Words exist fundamentally to communicate something; if a term is defined so as to be ambiguous, it has failed in that purpose.