Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely]

• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I said spread, not share. One would not consider peanut butter spread on bread if you put it in one glob and then picked up and moved the glob somewhere else.

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  • balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “Spread” indeed implies but does not entail that it happens instantly. For instance, Bill Gates could say that he “spread riches among the poor” without mentioning that he did it slowly, over decades. There’s a grammatical ambiguity to be exploited.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bill Gates could say that he “spread riches among the poor”

      Not if he gave $1 million to one person, then took it away and have it to someone else.

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