nifty@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 6 months agoI learned so muchlemmy.worldimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareelephantium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThat still doesn’t make a lick of sense in this context. It has the feel of someone picking the wrong word entirely.
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-26 months agojust agree to disagree I guess? I considered circumvent which is similar, but really there’s little etymological or metaphorical difference except personal preference but also it might be an EN-UK vs EN-US thing (I grew up in England)
minus-squareelephantium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months ago EN-UK vs EN-US thing That might be it. Circumvent in this context would make perfect sense to me, but circumnavigate threw me for a loop.
That still doesn’t make a lick of sense in this context. It has the feel of someone picking the wrong word entirely.
just agree to disagree I guess? I considered circumvent which is similar, but really there’s little etymological or metaphorical difference except personal preference
but also it might be an EN-UK vs EN-US thing (I grew up in England)
That might be it. Circumvent in this context would make perfect sense to me, but circumnavigate threw me for a loop.