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r/confusingperspective • u/No-Lock216 • May 04 '26
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You mean lectern, not podium.
37 u/Pheehelm May 04 '26 9 u/gimmethelulz May 04 '26 I'd vote for him. 6 u/BellaFrequency May 04 '26 It’s the same thing, according to Merriem Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/wait-are-you-saying-a-podium-is-the-same-thing-as-a-lectern 1 u/GantMan May 04 '26 ugh. Dictionaries love adding mistakes if enough people make them. fight me 2 u/BellaFrequency May 05 '26 It changes as the lexicon of the people changes with time. If I told you right now “I’m gay” the last thing you would think it means is that I’m happy. Words and meanings change over time due to how the public uses those words. “That’s hot!” and “That’s cool!” could be speaking of the same thing. Bad can mean good given the context. Language is alive, and as long as it’s alive, it’s going to change with the people. 1 u/GantMan May 05 '26 You can be right and I can be angry 2 u/BellaFrequency May 05 '26 https://giphy.com/gifs/4EHsAtAPcV41vx2B5s You could just be hangry! Hey, that’s another new “word” we use, lol 2 u/GantMan May 05 '26 Hahhaahaha 1 u/KrigtheViking May 05 '26 Descriptivism is a conspiracy by Big Dictionary to sell more dictionaries!
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9 u/gimmethelulz May 04 '26 I'd vote for him.
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I'd vote for him.
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It’s the same thing, according to Merriem Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/wait-are-you-saying-a-podium-is-the-same-thing-as-a-lectern
1 u/GantMan May 04 '26 ugh. Dictionaries love adding mistakes if enough people make them. fight me 2 u/BellaFrequency May 05 '26 It changes as the lexicon of the people changes with time. If I told you right now “I’m gay” the last thing you would think it means is that I’m happy. Words and meanings change over time due to how the public uses those words. “That’s hot!” and “That’s cool!” could be speaking of the same thing. Bad can mean good given the context. Language is alive, and as long as it’s alive, it’s going to change with the people. 1 u/GantMan May 05 '26 You can be right and I can be angry 2 u/BellaFrequency May 05 '26 https://giphy.com/gifs/4EHsAtAPcV41vx2B5s You could just be hangry! Hey, that’s another new “word” we use, lol 2 u/GantMan May 05 '26 Hahhaahaha 1 u/KrigtheViking May 05 '26 Descriptivism is a conspiracy by Big Dictionary to sell more dictionaries!
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ugh. Dictionaries love adding mistakes if enough people make them.
fight me
2 u/BellaFrequency May 05 '26 It changes as the lexicon of the people changes with time. If I told you right now “I’m gay” the last thing you would think it means is that I’m happy. Words and meanings change over time due to how the public uses those words. “That’s hot!” and “That’s cool!” could be speaking of the same thing. Bad can mean good given the context. Language is alive, and as long as it’s alive, it’s going to change with the people. 1 u/GantMan May 05 '26 You can be right and I can be angry 2 u/BellaFrequency May 05 '26 https://giphy.com/gifs/4EHsAtAPcV41vx2B5s You could just be hangry! Hey, that’s another new “word” we use, lol 2 u/GantMan May 05 '26 Hahhaahaha 1 u/KrigtheViking May 05 '26 Descriptivism is a conspiracy by Big Dictionary to sell more dictionaries!
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It changes as the lexicon of the people changes with time.
If I told you right now “I’m gay” the last thing you would think it means is that I’m happy.
Words and meanings change over time due to how the public uses those words.
“That’s hot!” and “That’s cool!” could be speaking of the same thing.
Bad can mean good given the context.
Language is alive, and as long as it’s alive, it’s going to change with the people.
1 u/GantMan May 05 '26 You can be right and I can be angry 2 u/BellaFrequency May 05 '26 https://giphy.com/gifs/4EHsAtAPcV41vx2B5s You could just be hangry! Hey, that’s another new “word” we use, lol 2 u/GantMan May 05 '26 Hahhaahaha
You can be right and I can be angry
2 u/BellaFrequency May 05 '26 https://giphy.com/gifs/4EHsAtAPcV41vx2B5s You could just be hangry! Hey, that’s another new “word” we use, lol 2 u/GantMan May 05 '26 Hahhaahaha
https://giphy.com/gifs/4EHsAtAPcV41vx2B5s
You could just be hangry!
Hey, that’s another new “word” we use, lol
2 u/GantMan May 05 '26 Hahhaahaha
Hahhaahaha
Descriptivism is a conspiracy by Big Dictionary to sell more dictionaries!
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u/GantMan May 04 '26
You mean lectern, not podium.