They meant to say "small car" but just made typo.
Happened five years ago so there's a bunch of articles about it.
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2024
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Anything But Metric
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Americans will use anything but metric
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I want to see a car as small as this rock.
Here you go friend
That’s more than a “typo”.
Typo is short for "typographical error" and while originally just for small spelling mistakes it's use has been expounded to cover autocorrects and completely wrong words. Your phone won't let you type a misspelled word, but hitting the "right" wrong keys can cause completely different words to come up. Because of this people use it for "brain farts" as well, they meant to type one thing something went wrong, and a different word showed up.
It's a typographical error still.
So, you can try to fight language evolving, but it's probably not going to work, even linguistics do t accomplish it when they try.
Thats why "literally" can literally mean figuratively now.
sort of the typo equivalent for a whole sentence
They're just trying to make the large boulder feel good about its body jesus christ guys lay off.
It looks like it's only about a hogshead. I wouldn't call that the size of a small boulder.
What kind of megafauna hogs do you have where you live?
Americans will do anything to avoid the metric system.
literally what this sub is about 😅
Heh my bad, was from all and didn't read
How much is that in football fields per square fathom?
Can't park here mate
I was working near here when this happened and never heard of this. Incredible mistake 😁
Reads like AI.
No, it doesn't. It's just a simple mistake. LLM would never abbreviate mile marker "mm" without specific instruction to do so.
All cops are idiots.