I disagree, because in American english, the object you’re talking about has a word (flashlight), and it is expected that people use the accepted words if they want to be understood.
How would you like if someone was asking you for a pair of scissors but they called them a knife, and got incredulous when you handed them a knife? You’d expect them to call them scissors, not a knife.
Muun@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Before he hit the end of that sentence, I thought torch was going to turn out to mean a lighter. :(
drcouzelis@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
That’s exactly right! I wrote about it in another response. :)