Comment on Is a parent expressing regret of giving birth to a child directly to that child a normal thing that parents do?

• hitmyspot@aussie.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cancer is not normal cell tissue, but it’s very common. They are different words, with different meanings.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m so glad you chimed in. Everyone loves someone who starts a silly, pedantic argument for no good reason.

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe. The way I understand it:

  Normal is something that’s basically the way it should be, while common just refers to being of higher frequency of occurence, regularly seen.

  For example: “Is police brutality normal?” vs “Is police brutality common?”
  No and yes.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Normal is something that’s basically the way it should be,

    That is incorrect

    www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/normal

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    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      First definition from your link:

      conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern characterized by that which is considered usual, typical, or routine

      I’m guessing the other person meant “the way it should be” not in a normative way but as in “the way you’d expect it to be since that’s the usual way”. That’s in line with the definition. Bottom line is both have several definitions but “normal” definitely has a very different connotation from “common”.

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      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m guessing the other person meant “the way it should be”

        That’s a pretty safe guess considering they explicitly said that…

        But I don’t think I’m going to make much ground explaining to you why they’re wrong either

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