• PugJesusOPM
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      -411 months ago

      “Test - a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something, especially before it is taken into widespread use”

      • snooggums
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        1111 months ago

        Those are the things they did before the demonstration.

        • PugJesusOPM
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          -811 months ago

          This is quite literally a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of the vest. The quality, performance, and reliability of the vest is likely established to the creators, but not to those observing.

          This is a really weird piece of semantics to get caught up on.

          • snooggums
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            1011 months ago

            No, this is a demonstration of the quality, performance, or reliability of the vest. They had already established the quality, performance, or reliability of the vest when the tested it prior to the demonstration.

            I know you are trying to use ‘establish’ to mean ‘establish in the minds of’ or something like that, but the whole meme is based on misleading the viewer to believe that this was the step where they made sure it worked. The joke is pretending this is a test and not a demonstration. It wouldn’t be nearly as funny if it was an actual test.

            In this case the semantics are the entire joke and important.

            • PugJesusOPM
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              11 months ago

              You have fun with making this argument over demonstrably wrong semantics. I’m done with trying to read off the dictionary to someone with no intent of listening.

          • @NOSin
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            611 months ago

            If you have to get into semantics to get your point across, you probably fucked up the communication part somewhere.

            • PugJesusOPM
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              -211 months ago

              If someone raises a semantic issue that depends on deliberately ignoring a common usage of the word, is it the issue of the original speaker, or the one raising an issue that deliberately ignores common usage?

              • @NOSin
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                311 months ago

                Thinking a demonstration is a common sense of test, is wrong in the mind of most people.

                So have fun be semantically right, while less and less people will care about what you say because of that.

                • PugJesusOPM
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                  011 months ago

                  Thinking a demonstration is a common sense of test, is wrong in the mind of most people.

                  A demonstration to show efficacy is definitely common usage of test. But believe what you want, it’s not like anything would change your mind.