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thecrgm t1_je7glv8 wrote

Reply to comment by throwaway8272727s in In Washington heights they tour up the roads to do work and revealed the old cobblestone beneath (184 & Pinehurst) by soylentgreenis

At some point if enough people use a word colloquially for something it becomes part of the meaning. There are plenty of words that didn’t originally mean something and now do because people believed a word meant something and it became that.

I’ve never heard someone say “wow this sett road is so bumpy!” it’s always cobblestone.

And the next part is “…although a sett is distinct from a cobblestone in that it is quarried or worked to a regular shape, whereas the latter is generally a small, naturally-rounded rock.”

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One_Sun_6258 t1_je8dhc7 wrote

Im thinking no one will ever say a sett road is bumpy .. But a cobble stone road alwayz will be .

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throwaway8272727s t1_je9kfwi wrote

“Just because my grandmother has wheels, doesn’t mean she’s a bike”

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spelunkingspaniard t1_je7msa8 wrote

You wrote all of that to avoid admitting you're wrong

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thecrgm t1_je7mz9b wrote

Wrong about what? I posted a quote

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Throwawayhelp111521 t1_je9webd wrote

You didn't understand what it meant. The clause beginning with "although" explains that the reference is wrong.

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intellos t1_je7zgnu wrote

Linguistic Prescriptivism isn't and has never been real.

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Throwawayhelp111521 t1_je9w7j5 wrote

Why do some people insist on their right to be wrong? Most of us probably grew up thinking that cobblestones and Belgian Blocks (stetts) were the same until the difference was explained to us. Now we use the correct terms. Cobblestones are much more uncomfortable to walk on.

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