• @starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    117 days ago

    Except for the fact that water by definition is wet

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wet

    Fun fact: there is no such thing as a universally accepted definition. Words mean what we mean when we say them. And the vast majority of people use “wet” to describe something that is made up of, touching, or covered in a liquid, especially water. The arbitrary assertion that the definition somehow only applies to solids is just facile contrarianism with no actual basis in linguistics.

    • lime!
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      17 days ago

      yeah but you know what the vast majority of people are like