If you’re a former English teacher you should be aware that language changes and while “factoid” was originally coined to mean a made up fact, the term is currently mostly used to refer to small inconsequential facts.
Wouldn’t it be a pleonasm? Tautology is more about the logic realm, specifically about repeating an argument or a statement as it they were different. Here “inaccurate factoid” is merely inaccurate vocabulary.
There are four things wrong with your comment, that I wish that people did not bring to Lemmy.
Failure to address what people are actually saying, on a discursive level, to focus on the specific words that they’re using to convey said discourse.
The false belief that words and expressions have an intrinsic, immutable, “magically coded” meaning.
Usage of emoticons and emojis to “shield” the speaker, without taking into account that they do not minimise the threatening act towards the hearer’s positive face.
“As a”-based argumentation, as if the truth and/or moral value of a claim “magically” changed acc. to who does the claim.
Focusing specially on #2, as it’s more relevant here. The word “factoid” is commonly associated with at least two meanings, and the def that you’re implying (“factoid” as something similar but not identical to a fact) is only one of them. The word is also used to convey “minor fact” or “trivia”, regardless of its truth value; as attested by Cambridge, Oxford #2, Wiktionary #2, Merriam-Webster #2; and OP is clearly assigning that meaning to “factoid” in the utterance, as it would not make sense to talk about an “inaccurate factoid” otherwise**.
*I’m referring to Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory.
**I’m referring to Gricean logic, specially the maxim of quantity.
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You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
C’mon dude. As a history teacher, I can tell you that it is definitely possible to fire a gun without arms.
I’m not even a gun dude and I’ve heard of those guns that shoot if you look at em funny. Hi points? I don’t remember.
Just FYI, factoid has been misused for long enough that it now has an official second, contradictory definition:
A briefly stated and usually trivial fact.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid
If you’re a former English teacher you should be aware that language changes and while “factoid” was originally coined to mean a made up fact, the term is currently mostly used to refer to small inconsequential facts.
That’s literally the most ironic thing I’ve read
A gunman doesn’t cease to be a gunman if he’s disarmed. Though he can’t be a gunman if he wasn’t armed in the first place.
Most people have at least one arm, so aren’t all gunmen armed?
Wouldn’t it be a pleonasm? Tautology is more about the logic realm, specifically about repeating an argument or a statement as it they were different. Here “inaccurate factoid” is merely inaccurate vocabulary.
There are four things wrong with your comment, that I wish that people did not bring to Lemmy.
Focusing specially on #2, as it’s more relevant here. The word “factoid” is commonly associated with at least two meanings, and the def that you’re implying (“factoid” as something similar but not identical to a fact) is only one of them. The word is also used to convey “minor fact” or “trivia”, regardless of its truth value; as attested by Cambridge, Oxford #2, Wiktionary #2, Merriam-Webster #2; and OP is clearly assigning that meaning to “factoid” in the utterance, as it would not make sense to talk about an “inaccurate factoid” otherwise**.
*I’m referring to Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory.
**I’m referring to Gricean logic, specially the maxim of quantity.
Nice.