Comment on A swing and a miss

• adj16@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In case anyone thinks you’re being serious:

  misnomer /mĭs-nō′mər/

  noun

  1. An error in naming a person or place. 
  2. Application of a wrong name. 
  3. A name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or object.

  www.wordnik.com/words/misnomer

  dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/…/misnomer

  www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misnomer

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  • TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For what ever reason, your assumption that someone would just take it at face value and, presumably, use it incorrectly, made me think of that female redditor that used to call her short brother “a grower, not a shower” in front of people until she learned what it meant.

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• kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They know what someone is who doesn’t have their own skin colour. Surely that must count for something

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