• hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    The context is everything before the comment. “Coffee maker”, in this context, pretty clearly means an automatic drip-brew coffee machine.

    It would be like if we were talking about basketball, and I said, “my net is made of chain, as it should be”, and you were to reply, “how dare you, nylon is a perfectly fine material for fishing nets.”

    The other sentence in my (apparently single sentence) comment, “As it was for 60 years”, should also have maybe been an indicator of what I meant.

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      12 days ago

      My bad, it was a single line comment. Quite a pedantic thing to remark, but ok.

      “Coffee maker”, in this context, pretty clearly means an automatic drip-brew coffee machine.

      I don’t think anyone is disputing that or confused about it. It’s precisely what my response was about.

      It would be like if we were talking about basketball, and I said, “my net is made of chain, as it should be”, and you were to reply, “how dare you, nylon is a perfectly fine material for fishing nets.”

      Awful analogy. The brewing method changes the taste of the cup, a lot. A more adequate comparison would be saying that there’s only one way to make pizza. It’s not a minor detail. Even the net thing would be a weird thing to say, though.

      Seems like you where the one confused after all. Oh well.