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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

Just another factoid, just another voice in the chorus of "he should've been behind bars long ago!"

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Which part is a factoid?

Down votes for being curious. Cool beans.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That there was a Trump Foundation and that it's another of his many enterprises that got into legal trouble, to put it mildly.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So those things aren't true then? (Just asking out of curiosity.)

Factoids also mean "false statements presented as fact", guys. I was wondering what was being used here... 🙄

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Factoids are true things, just simplified down to the point they're easily digestible without context

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

That's one definition, but the most common one in my experience is this:

A factoid is a false statement presented as a fact.

You're using the other meaning, and that's fine. I was just verifying which one was being used.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well, language is a living thing. In my experience, the meaning of that word has shifted over the past couple decades

Fact-oid means something like malformed fact, but we no longer use this suffix much because it's offensive. So the suffix kinda lost it's meaning in everyday language, which makes this kind of flip common... There's a word for this kind of drift, but I don't remember it

[-] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

I have the opposite experience — I've never seen anyone use the "fact" version of factoid. Only the "untrue statement" version.

Oh well, as long as we understand each other.

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