Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAs an English language pedant, I find this text message mildly infuriating.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up176arrow-down1imageAs an English language pedant, I find this text message mildly infuriating.lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square38fedilinkfile-text
That is not what “unstop” means. You unstop a drain that is clogged, you don’t unstop something you want to restart.
minus-squareRivalarrivallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoYou would have a point if they had said "to unstop texts from this number, reply with “start”. But they didn’t. They quoted the word and explicitly defined the meaning they assigned to it. There is no ambiguity.
You would have a point if they had said "to unstop texts from this number, reply with “start”.
But they didn’t.
They quoted the word and explicitly defined the meaning they assigned to it. There is no ambiguity.