• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    21 hours ago

    It is a different definition, but it’s the same unit… it’s also more like saying “that ball of yarn is 10 metres” - the ball itself isn’t 10 metres long in any dimension, but the meaning is clear given the context, as it would if you said “it’s 0.05 metres”. By having two meanings distinguishable by context, it seems like two definitions to me.

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      10 hours ago

      (Different definition/pov of what is measured, yes, that is where the joke is.)

      Hehe, look at this falsehood - there is no way this things can talk!
      (However imho this is a more clear example of ‘two different definitions’ of the main concept/phrase intentionally mixed together for comedic effect, bcs words can explicitly have more than one meaning, and yes, usually you can tell from the context.)

      This pic is def:

      This “fun fact” mixes up the two definitions, making the statement meaningless.