The inclusion of a clause about something being “able to be dry” is an arbitrary inclusion specifically meant to exclude water itself, not based on how we use the word, but based on a facile desire to force the definition to fit the way you think it should.
Source?
English is my native language. The phrase “water is wet” is ubiquitous for a reason. I’ll happily link to a particular dictionary, if you promise not to accuse me of cherry-picking.
I found this, but it looks like it’s referring to Old English, not modern, unless I’m misunderstanding. Do you have another source? Just curious at this point; I always considered the “water is wet” thing to just be a common misunderstanding of the actual meaning of the word.
EDIT: It looks like it’s referring to origin, not usage, so I’ll concede your point.
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The inclusion of a clause about something being “able to be dry” is an arbitrary inclusion specifically meant to exclude water itself, not based on how we use the word, but based on a facile desire to force the definition to fit the way you think it should.
English is my native language. The phrase “water is wet” is ubiquitous for a reason. I’ll happily link to a particular dictionary, if you promise not to accuse me of cherry-picking.
I found this, but it looks like it’s referring to Old English, not modern, unless I’m misunderstanding. Do you have another source? Just curious at this point; I always considered the “water is wet” thing to just be a common misunderstanding of the actual meaning of the word.
EDIT: It looks like it’s referring to origin, not usage, so I’ll concede your point.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wet is my favorite source
Works for me.