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18th August 2022

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So how do places that call flashlights “torches” specify when they’re talking about pitchforks-and- torches?

  1. sleepwithgiggli reblogged this from adjoint-law
  2. perks-of-being-a-bi-guy reblogged this from argumate
  3. adjoint-law reblogged this from argumate and added:
    Like, you can pull up to the petrol station to pump your car full of petrol, but it runs on gas.
  4. argumate reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    in Australia cars fuelled with gas are filled with gas, not petrol.(ironically that gas is shipped in liquid form, but...
  5. kontextmaschine reblogged this from jambeast
  6. icehouseprimitiveman said: Torch as a verb kept its fire connotation though, you would not say you illuminated something by ‘torching it’
  7. icehouseprimitiveman said: It’s context all the way down. Just like any other language, humans don’t speak in code
  8. jambeast reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    We wouldn’t specify, since context clues is good enough. We don’t -use- medieval torches in the modern day, so if it’s...
  9. kontextmaschine said: @jambeast but like if you were to write “a crowd gathered with torches” how would you specify
  10. jambeast said: Torches are also called torches. We just call them both torches.
  11. polyaletheia reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    "flaming torches", generally