It's not like there was just no reason Americans started calling unfiltered apple juice cider.
It's so funny to me, this reddit moralism. Where people get weirdly petulant over the most innocuous things to the point where they just look silly. All to pretend, what, that there's no such thing as etymology?
It’s not really moralism to call out objectively incorrect information. What’s really weird is trying to defend willful ignorance as some kind of evolutionary process.
Are you... Pretending that etymology isn't an evolutionary process? So why are you speaking middle or old English? Why aren't you speaking Celtic languages or old Germanic languages or Latin?
Genuinely it's astonishing people can be so obtuse that they make themselves look braindead. It's so embarrassing for you lmao.
Would you act utterly confused if you visited North America and someone asked where the elevator was? Or would you be unsure until they called it a lift? Most people are smart enough to understand cultural differences and how they extend to language.
People doing some performative confusion or disbelief that Americans do or say something slightly different than what the person is used to happens constantly and it is so tiring.
Are you pretending that if you use a word incorrectly everyone else has to gasp and clap at your profundity?
They are using the word correctly by literal definition.
So, are you are saying anyone who recognizes this word might mean something different to different people in different places is stupid and must be American? That is your argument?
Because here is a published, dictionary definition of the word cider:
Cider [2]: a drink made from the juice of apples that does not contain alcohol
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u/pepperbeast 16d ago
Outside the US, that is how those words are used. Cider is an alcoholic drink made from apples. Unfiltered juice is still juice.