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teruakohatu on June 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works...

I an struggling to understand what is wrong with the phrase "water isn't wet, it just makes other things wet". Can you explain?

IshKebab on June 20, 2020 [–]

Water is wet. There's nothing wrong with it grammatically. I just meant it was an example of people blindly copying untrue but smart-sounding facts.

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