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[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 month ago (22 children)

I've had an unreasonable number of arguments against people who seemed to think animal was a synonym for mammal. Thankfully, we're now in an era where you can look it up and show them now mobile data is cheap, so it's become a winnable argument.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Except they still don't care, and resent you for edumacating them. Whatever you say, they "win". Welcome to the post -information age.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Or they don't care because they're using it in a colloquial sense and 90+% of people they talk to would understand their intended usage, so they resent being lectured on semantics rather than responding to the meaning behind their words.