this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2025
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Just because the location is asking for “volunteers “and the school sends child slave labor doesn’t make that child slave labor magically “volunteering”.
Words have meanings. The meanings of words don’t just magically change because you happen to be wrong.
Bro
They do change contextually, though? That's sorta the whole basis of language.
That is not the basis of language, lol
It quite literally is. All encoding of information is definitionally contextual, language (formal or not) is no exception. This doesn't change because the language is spoken.
You’re funny. You should go on tour.
This is so hilariously wrong
Nah fam, this is near enough a perfect universal truth.
This doesn’t say what you think it does. Lol.
Lmfao buddy, so what does it say then? Because I'm getting the feeling you're not exactly familiar with anything to do with linguistic theory, and it sure would be easy and satisfying to disabuse me of that notion. Look at me, I'm right here, calling your bluff while taking a biiiiiig ol' sip of my coffee. Make me eat my tasty (and context dependent) words, and pull a comedy spit-take in the process! The power is yours, the ball is in your court, dazzle us oh knower-of-truths!
Reading this whole thread is so baffling, but this is my favourite response I've seen lmaoo
You’re ranting like a crazy person. Calm down.
If if this is how you react when people tell you, you’re wrong, then I’ve no interest in continuing this conversation.
Go touch grass. Blocked.
Yeah, that's kinda what I thought...