SbisasCostlyTurnover@feddit.uk to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 months agoDoes blowing on our hot food before we put it into our mouths actually make a difference to how hot it is?message-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up111arrow-down1message-squareDoes blowing on our hot food before we put it into our mouths actually make a difference to how hot it is?SbisasCostlyTurnover@feddit.uk to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
I’m thinking that no, it doesn’t. Which begs the question of why we do it? Is it a psychological thing?
minus-squaresubignition@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·3 months agoDictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive; when meanings get changed by popular usage, so too do dictionaries follow. Terribly sorry you’re learning this so late in life. Might have saved yourself some frustration otherwise.
Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive; when meanings get changed by popular usage, so too do dictionaries follow.
Terribly sorry you’re learning this so late in life. Might have saved yourself some frustration otherwise.