It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social · 6 months ago

It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

Don_alForno@feddit.org · 6 months ago

What is “truth value” supposed to mean?

Isoprenoid@programming.dev · 6 months ago

Sorry, I wasn’t explaining myself well.

Just because a story isn’t factually true, doesn’t mean that it has no value, or negative value. There are other types of values which can supersede factual value:

aesthetic
symbolic
ethical
didactic

Truth isn’t always about facts. Sometimes factual statements can be used as a weapon of deceit.

Don_alForno@feddit.org · 6 months ago

There are other types of value, of course. It’s just funny to specifically call the apple out for being a myth. The entire story is a myth, so they could have made it a pomelo for all I care.