What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?
What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?
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Until recently the word "factoid" didn't mean a small bit of trivia. It meant something that sounded true or was accepted as a fact even though it was incorrect.
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It's like the word asteroid. Aster means star, but an asteroid isn't a star, it can just look like one.
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Yep! Learned that word in Dune books, was confused when I first saw it online meaning something entirely different.
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Meme also suffered this fate, Used to mean an idea that was transmitted from person to person like a disease.
I think the meaning of AI has also become watered down recently.
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That's definitely what it should mean. -oid means resembling or pertaining to, it's not a diminutive.
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This sounds like a factoid
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