The most ridiculous "well actually" I ever received on here was somebody who replied to one of my tweets about being "wide awake at two in the morning" to tell me that well actually "morning" refers to the time after the sun has risen, and I meant 2 at night.
Not to get all timecube in here, but... there's more than one morning. That is, "morning" has more than one meaning, and which one a person means -- when they don't overlap -- is clear from context.
Like, day and night are opposites, and when it's night it's not day, but a daily occurrence can take place at night and there are 24 hours in a day.
Words mean things, but they also mean other things, some of which seem contradictory.
Words mean things, but they also mean other things, some of which seem contradictory.
Solstices and equinoxes mark the start of the astronomical seasons of summer, fall, winter, and spring, but they fall in the midst of the meteorological seasons with those same names. And if you're a household with schoolchildren, "summer" probably starts when school lets out.
Anyway. I don't remember who it was who said this to me and I think I probably blocked them, but often if I wake up at one or two or three in the morning, even if it's just to use the bathroom, if I happen to think about the time, I think about this ridiculous person.
Because just imagine what it did for my state of mind on a night when I couldn't sleep to have received that oh-so-pedantic "correction", which, like most pedantry, didn't even have the grace of being correct.
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