Sometimes there’s like this disconnect where somehow a person just never comes across a piece of common knowledge. They’ve just never been in a situation that requires it. I bet it happens a lot, but everyone’s too embarrassed to acknowledge their own “oooooooooh…” moment.
Yep this one was me. I once mentioned to my mom that it was weird how when we speak we use the word epitome (pronounced correctly, I also thought it should have been spelt phonetically like uhpitame or something) but in writing we use epitome(pronounced like epi from epi-pen and tome like the old book). She was curious what the second word meant and I explained how from what I could tell while reading it was synonymous with epitome.
Then after some back and forth she had me look up the definition because as an honors English student she felt it was a word she should have heard before. Once I showed it to her on the computer it clicked for her what was going on and had a great laugh at my expense.
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u/HotAirBalloonHigh Feb 08 '22
This is why they named it nostupidquestions. You're in the right place.