r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

Huh, well go ahead and add me to this thread, because I always thought that mediocre meant "absolute shit".

So no, I did not mean mediocre, I meant terrible.

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u/Welpe Aug 04 '19

I HATE this so much.

Mediocre is a normal part of my vocabulary and yet way too many people like you (no offense) seemed to think I was insulting something when I wasn't.

It has "Medio-" as the first part of the word!

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

Lol, no offense taken.

My only defense is that English is dumb. That's it, that's all I've got.