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[deleted] t1_izcm0sf wrote

Reply to comment by bigbangbilly in ‘Goblin mode’ chosen as Oxford word of the year for 2022 by MatthewDM111

??? Word and phrase are pretty much the basic building blocks of language after the alphabet.

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Millenniauld t1_izew9wc wrote

But they aren't fixed like math. Languages are ever evolving and adding words.

That's why we have etymology.

That's why 2+2 will always make 4, but the common word you use for those things in your head you see with are called eyeballs only (relatively) recently thanks to a guy named William Shakespeare.

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