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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    10 months ago

    “Decimate” =/= “devastate”, but common misuse becomes common use, so here we are. 🤦‍♂️

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      10 months ago

      Language is fun like that. Kinda like how ‘literally’ can, and often does, mean ‘figuratively’, which has the opposite meaning.