• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    2 years ago

    How dare I “missuse” dictionaries to “define words” which contradict your “alternative facts.”

    and FYI, Oxford is British.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      Dictionaries do not exhaustively discuss topics and the scope of meanings of terms, they give you a colloquially-oriented summary of what they mean to help you, for example, parse a conversation that uses the word in passing.

      John Locke being a liberal isn’t an “alternative fact”, you’re just a troglodyte.