• burntrealm@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    Is it common for the French to put together random semi-related, mostly nonsense words to try and sound like you know what you’re talking about?

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      9 hours ago

      Sounds like you need to open a dictionary ! It’s one of those big, stern books. Books are those stacks of paper bound together on one side.

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          2 hours ago

          I was gonna let you be stupid without saying anything, but you doubled down twice so now I will prove that you are wrong.

          The first definition of decrypt in the American Heritage Dictionary is “To Decipher” I’ll admit, not super helpful, so let’s look at the definition of decipher. “To read or interpret (ambiguous, obscure, or illegible matter)”

          So for someone to “decrypt” an overexposed picture, they would be, by dictionary definition, trying to interpret what the ambiguous picture was actually showing, since the lighting was making it unclear.

          You are in the wrong when saying they used the wrong word, you just don’t have as good a command over the English language as you thought