This bothers me. I looked it up and it's right, but I want it to be wrong for words that have the same root meaning. It's not like skate (the fish) and skate (the activity). You're an alcoholic because your blood is alcoholic. They're so closely related.
Does this mean every second definition of a word in the dictionary is also a homonym? How different does it need to be?
Wow, look at the contrast between Nevada and its neighboring states Utah & Idaho. Imagine being an alcoholic in Nevada then crossing the border to a soda pop state. "I'm cured!" 🤣
You would think that a state with such a high rate of heavy drinking coupled with pretty lenient DUI penalties would be a very dangerous place to drive, and yet Wisconsin ranks 34th (out of 50) for drunk driving deaths per capita.
If the adjective means, "has or pertaining to containing alcohol," then it's simply the chronic condition of a human choosing to be that way that draws the stigma.
Sure before modern civilized times when the water supply was filthy with human waste, that's why everyone had to drink alcohol. Because they polluted their own water supply with shit. Glad science figured things out and got us back to drinking water again.
The idea that people drank beer because it was safer than water is a myth. They drank for the exact same reason we do today…you get a buzz. A side benefit was that beer had calories in a drinkable form. The safety of the drink, as in not full of harmful microbes, was an indirect but not primary benefit.
One is a noun, the other an adjective, and as such they carry different meanings. For example, someone could eat a tart (baked good) that is not tart (sour).
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cattywampas@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 123d
You have discovered homonyms
orenj@leminal.space · 6 pts · 122d
Homonyms should not exist, get a new sound. i am the #1 homophobe
Wait, not like that
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 123d
🤯
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d
This bothers me. I looked it up and it's right, but I want it to be wrong for words that have the same root meaning. It's not like skate (the fish) and skate (the activity). You're an alcoholic because your blood is alcoholic. They're so closely related.
Does this mean every second definition of a word in the dictionary is also a homonym? How different does it need to be?
I hate English.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 123d
"homonym" == "same-name", so, yes by definition. it has the same name as another definition.
icanbrewmushrooms@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
This is false, that's not what the noun 'alcoholic' means.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 123d
Being an alcoholic is a negative trait; a Martini cannot beat his wife in drunken rage.
foggy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 123d
#NotAllAlcoholics 🍸
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 123d
Wine is an alcoholic beverage. Vodka is an alcoholic's beverage.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 0 pts · 122d
Wine is Not an Emulator
vandsjov@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 122d
When a person is an ass, the word "ass" is a negative stigma. When an animal is an ass, it's just a donkey.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 122d
A person can also have a nice ass
orenj@leminal.space · 1 pts · 122d
Or my cat, where it gains affectionate connotations
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 123d
Context matters. Go figure
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 123d
In Wisconsin “alcoholic” is only an adjective.
We don’t have alcoholics in the other sense here, just “professionals”.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 123d
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 122d
Wow, look at the contrast between Nevada and its neighboring states Utah & Idaho. Imagine being an alcoholic in Nevada then crossing the border to a soda pop state. "I'm cured!" 🤣
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 122d
West Virginia surprised me, Wisconsin didn't
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 121d
You would think that a state with such a high rate of heavy drinking coupled with pretty lenient DUI penalties would be a very dangerous place to drive, and yet Wisconsin ranks 34th (out of 50) for drunk driving deaths per capita.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 122d
If you drink enough vodka, your blood becomes alcoholic.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 123d
If the adjective means, "has or pertaining to containing alcohol," then it's simply the chronic condition of a human choosing to be that way that draws the stigma.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 123d
"Damn it, Beer, you're alcoholic!"
ICastFist@programming.dev · 3 pts · 122d
In portuguese, we have a different word for alcoholic person (alcoolatra), which helps avoid this
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
And it's got "cool" right in the name!
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 122d
It's also nearly impossible to defend alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic.
little_tuptup@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 122d
I'll take a stab at it.
It's a safe drinking supply. That's a big part of why humans drank it for thousands of years.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 122d
Sure before modern civilized times when the water supply was filthy with human waste, that's why everyone had to drink alcohol. Because they polluted their own water supply with shit. Glad science figured things out and got us back to drinking water again.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 122d
The idea that people drank beer because it was safer than water is a myth. They drank for the exact same reason we do today…you get a buzz. A side benefit was that beer had calories in a drinkable form. The safety of the drink, as in not full of harmful microbes, was an indirect but not primary benefit.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
Dammit DaMonsterKnees, you have Lupis.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 123d
It's never lupus.
anakin78z@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
One is a noun, the other an adjective, and as such they carry different meanings. For example, someone could eat a tart (baked good) that is not tart (sour).
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 122d
Off a tart - pretty freakin' sweet
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 122d
No, on the beverage and food, it is a stigma, too.
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 123d
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d
Sad but probably true... I was gonna say "I wouldn't know" but then I recalled my army days, lol.