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minus-squareEyck_of_denesle@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoI’m not a native English speaker. What does “I stand corrected”?
minus-squareyetAnotherUserlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·3 days agoIt’s an idiom about admitting you’re wrong. In other words, you could write the sentence as: “If there has been significant positive change since then, I admit that what I wrote was wrong.”
minus-squareKogasa@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoIt means they admit they were wrong and you were correct. As in, “I have been corrected.”
I’m not a native English speaker. What does “I stand corrected”?
It’s an idiom about admitting you’re wrong.
In other words, you could write the sentence as:
“If there has been significant positive change since then, I admit that what I wrote was wrong.”
It means they admit they were wrong and you were correct. As in, “I have been corrected.”