Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

• Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sorry, I wasn’t explaining myself well.

  Just because a story isn’t factually true, doesn’t mean that it has no value, or negative value. There are other types of values which can supersede factual value:

  • aesthetic
  • symbolic
  • ethical
  • didactic

  Truth isn’t always about facts. Sometimes factual statements can be used as a weapon of deceit.

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are other types of value, of course. It’s just funny to specifically call the apple out for being a myth. The entire story is a myth, so they could have made it a pomelo for all I care.

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