• Zenith@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    People say shit like “half decade” to make five years sound longer. I understand people can change in five years, often do not share their suicidal ideation but she was a bright woman who understood the weight of her position, if nothing else it’s shady and needs to be looked into just to confirm.

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      20 hours ago

      Nice one, so I guess that you’ve never said “half dozen” then, right? Because you wouldn’t want six eggs to sound like a bigger number, right?

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          17 hours ago

          People say shit like “half decade” to make five years sound longer.

          What the fuck do you expect me to say to someone who comments “People say shit like “half decade” to make five years sound longer”?

          • Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml
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            16 hours ago

            That expression is being deliberately used to make the time period sound longer. Do you not understand that people will use language in a certain way to make things sound better or worse?