YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoFlorida teacher fired for using gender-neutral honorific ‘Mx.’www.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square137fedilinkarrow-up1427arrow-down125
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minus-squareSheeEttin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoMost floppy disks aren’t floppy either, so maybe not the best example.
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down6·edit-210 months agoActually the floppy part of the disk is inside the plastic case. It’s a floppy piece of magnetic tape. But that’s a great example of how language evolves - people don’t even know what the name means, and yet they know what it is.
Most floppy disks aren’t floppy either, so maybe not the best example.
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Actually the floppy part of the disk is inside the plastic case. It’s a floppy piece of magnetic tape.
But that’s a great example of how language evolves - people don’t even know what the name means, and yet they know what it is.