• someguy3@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Not really. Sorry but you’re playing pedantic with the terms. People say inflation to mean high prices.

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        22 hours ago

        It’s not pedantic. People just literally don’t understand what inflation means. Wage growth, apparently, has caught up to inflation, so it’s really just that people haven’t adjusted their mindset to the higher prices now. And they’re angry about it.

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          17 minutes ago

          Weird. It’s almost like colloquiality is a thing. Words weren’t written down thousands of years ago to remain unchanged through usage. Or you could choose to be an inflexible pedant in a changing world…?

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          22 hours ago

          It’s not pedantic. People just literally don’t understand what inflation means

          In almost everything there is the scientific or technical definition of the term, and then there is common parlance. People will never know the technical terms, just accept that because all you’re accomplishing is being pedantic.

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            22 hours ago

            How basic of terms should we give up on? Inflation is not a difficult concept. I would barely call it a technical term.

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              22 hours ago

              Let me know if you stop people from using the word theory incorrectly. That’s only been going on for centuries, surely we’ll educate everyone any day!