Love this article. I wonder if this is a brain-type thing. It really rings true for me.
Developing the idea, I have a similar multiple definitions problem, in a much smaller context, with the word “prescription”.
In the UK it means all of: a doctor’s idea of what medicine to give to a patient, a piece of paper with that written on it, and the medicine itself.
I got thoroughly confused when I went to collect a prescription from a pharmacy and was told “it’s (still) over at the surgery”. It wasn’t, or rather, it was. But we were talking about different prescriptions.
Developing the idea, I have a similar multiple definitions problem, in a much smaller context, with the word “prescription”.
In the UK it means all of: a doctor’s idea of what medicine to give to a patient, a piece of paper with that written on it, and the medicine itself.
I got thoroughly confused when I went to collect a prescription from a pharmacy and was told “it’s (still) over at the surgery”. It wasn’t, or rather, it was. But we were talking about different prescriptions.
Anyone else have these (pedantic?) confusions?