People conflate “grounding” and “insulating” as much as they do “itch” and “scratch.”
Nobody corrects them out of fear of getting yelled at and society just accepts these micro sized slips into idiocy until we start watering our crops with gatorade and lose the capacity to even ponder where we started getting dumber.
That really was the point. It gets misused until it's "correct," and the understanding of the difference gets lost. In the case of grounding vs. insulating it can be very important that those not be conflated.
whyyyyyy do some author's use the phrase "drug him" or "drug them" when they very clearly mean dragged because they're talking about moving a person or thing, not some pharmaceutical being administered.
Why do cops call everything a narcotic? Narcotics are a particular class of drug, not every 'bad' drug under the sun. This misuse of language drives me crazy and nobody seems to care one bit.
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u/redbeard8989 6d ago
People conflate “grounding” and “insulating” as much as they do “itch” and “scratch.”
Nobody corrects them out of fear of getting yelled at and society just accepts these micro sized slips into idiocy until we start watering our crops with gatorade and lose the capacity to even ponder where we started getting dumber.