Examples, please.

@fmf said
Examples, please.

@fmf said
I managed to get to the age of 42 before I was finally confronted for thinking ~ indeed, for claiming out loud ~ that goats were male sheep and not completely separate animals. I cannot figure out how I didn't know that.

Wait...what?

You thought a goat was a male sheep?

So I was right it's a separate animal?

@booger said
I also on this day just found out a goat was a male sheep.

@booger said
You thought a goat was a male sheep?

@booger said
So I was right it's a separate animal?

Still confused on the matter and too drunk to google it.

I'll check my posts in the morning as usual.

@booger said
Still confused on the matter and too drunk to google it.

I'll check my posts in the morning as usual.

I didn't know the hole in the pot handle was not only for hanging the pot when clean but also for the stir stick.

I learned that the other day while looking up recipes.

The guitar effect fuzz tone happened by accident when a C&W bass player accidentally plugged into a blown receiver for his bass solo. The result, Marty Robbins song "Don't Worry" happened. Fuzz tone in a Country bass solo. Soon RnR designers duplicated the effect and the fuzz pedal was born.

@FMF

Slightly similar case:
I have sometimes heard people use a word, unfamiliar to me, tried to guess its meaning from context, later, looked it up in a dictionary and discovered that I, and sometimes they too, had gotten it wrong. This tends to happen with newly coined or currently trending words. Most recent example: “tradwife.”

@moonbus said
@FMF

Slightly similar case:
I have sometimes heard people use a word, unfamiliar to me, tried to guess its meaning from context, later, looked it up in a dictionary and discovered that I, and sometimes they too, had gotten it wrong. This tends to happen with newly coined or currently trending words. Most recent example: “tradwife.”

@FMF

Me too with German.

I had been pronouncing Zimbabwe as Zimbabve ( I’m blaming my Polish heritage 🤔) up until it finally dawned upon me when I used the word in a works meeting in 2016.

Do you think they noticed? 🫢