Such as “money can’t buy happiness” or “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”. Generally a false adage or something like that. All I could think of was “fallacious bumper sticker” which just sounds stupid.
Such as “money can’t buy happiness” or “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”. Generally a false adage or something like that. All I could think of was “fallacious bumper sticker” which just sounds stupid.
The meaning of a word doesn’t change just because you use it incorrectly.
It does if lots of people use it incorrectly
That is literally how language works. Words only mean what we mean when we say them.
Language morphology, but you’re close. Except for that last sentence, technically. That’s some bullshit, right there. 🤣
So if I potato, you can ottoman?
If enough people agree, yes.
They don’t.
That’s actually the point. Nobody agrees that potato=ottoman but if enough people agree on a meaning it starts to become the meaning or at least a partial meaning. Maybe the point is moot with you but I get the feeling you wouldn’t understand the joke.
I love when people try to argue against the point you’re making. And by sheer coincidence, the “correct” definition of words just happens to be whatever the definition was when they were growing up.
I wish just once that one of the “words shouldn’t change” people doubled down and refused to speak anything but early modern English from 500 years ago.