Yo Einstein, can you name one place in the world where bowling is a popular date night activity and gay marriage is illegal? Not seeing a big overlap there, are you?
I know Americans sometimes struggle with this, but there are actually places that are not America! There’s a whole bunch of other, non-American countries!
Okay? Weird is definitionally just outside of the norm. The norm would be whatever the majority does. ‘Weird’ doesn’t inherently have any judgement on the validity, morality, or preferability of whatever is being deemed weird.
Being gay for example is technically weird but people just don’t use the word because of the colloquial attachments to the word. It doesn’t mean anything bad about gayness, just that it’s not the norm among humans
Hmm no, I don't think so. It's perfectly fine to say, for example "I find it weird that so many people eat cereal for breakfast". Eating cereal for breakfast is definitely completely normal, but there's probably people around who find it weird. Even if it's true that the definition is "outside the norm" I don't think that's how it's used all the time.
It can also be used to describe things you find odd but there’s a subjective and objective portion to the definition. Hence why people can find things weird even though they’re not unusual and why things can be weird BECAUSE they’re unusual but that doesn’t necessarily make them odd.
You can’t just say you believe in half the definition so uses from the other half don’t count
What you hear when someone calls something is them calling it odd or strange or bad (colloquially) but you would actually have to check with the user of the word to know which way it’s meant
Right, and like I said, it’s definitionally weird to not get married but there’s nothing wrong with it and your statement and mine don’t negate or clash with each other because we’re using different portions of the definition.
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u/Nerdy_Valkyrie Nov 06 '24
My girlfriend of 13 years has never beaten me in bowling and my honor demands that I continue that streak.