Such as “money can’t buy happiness” or “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”. Generally a false adage or something like that. All I could think of was “fallacious bumper sticker” which just sounds stupid.
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Idiom.
Bullshitism.
Adage
How has nobody said this yet? Some guy actually said idiom.
Because an adage isn’t necessarily untrue, like the OP is asking.
Arguably, not necessarily. Adages are not truisms.
Misnomer
Platitude
ish
Truism
‘An old wives tale’
Not all wives tales are false. Most are, but not all.
These fall under the category of “Half-baked Idea”. This includes any idea that obviously hasn’t been thought all the way through. Half-baked ideas can range from the absurd (e.g. “The Earth is flat.”), to the benignly optimistic (e.g. “Everything works out for the best.”)
Bollocks.
A Canard (French for duck) refers to something often believed to be true but isn’t.
The origin of this expression is because the French do not believe that Quebec is real.
It’s ducks all the way down.
🇲🇶🦆💬"Ouai"
L’honk
Honque*
Tabernac.
“Canard.”
noun 1. an unfounded rumor or story. “the old canard that LA is a cultural wasteland”
Debatable
Id go with this one, because the examples given could also be argued to be true
“Decimate” =/= “devastate”, but common misuse becomes common use, so here we are. 🤦♂️
Language is fun like that. Kinda like how ‘literally’ can, and often does, mean ‘figuratively’, which has the opposite meaning.
It annoys me that people keep saying “figuratively” is what they mean instead of “literally”. “Figuratively” may be the opposite, and technically correct, but the use of the word “literally” in this way is to strengthen a statement. A more appropriate correction would be “actually” or “seriously”, which holds the intended meaning. “Figuratively” is the last thing it should be replaced with.
The meaning of a word doesn’t change just because you use it incorrectly.
That is literally how language works. Words only mean what we mean when we say them.
So if I potato, you can ottoman?
If enough people agree, yes.
They don’t.
That’s actually the point. Nobody agrees that potato=ottoman but if enough people agree on a meaning it starts to become the meaning or at least a partial meaning. Maybe the point is moot with you but I get the feeling you wouldn’t understand the joke.
Language morphology, but you’re close. Except for that last sentence, technically. That’s some bullshit, right there. 🤣
It does if lots of people use it incorrectly
Yep decimate is so commonly misused that our lovely descriptivist dictionaries are now incorporating the incorrect use as correct. It’s too bad, too, because the word had a very specific meaning which is now lost. The language is less useful for changes like this.
false premise?
