• Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
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    1 day ago

    I didn’t say rectangles are squares, I said rectangles are square.

    Square can be an adjective. When you say a rectangle is square, you’re saying all four corners are square. If you make a picture frame in the shape of a oblique parallelogram, it’s not square. If you make it in the shape of a rectangle, it’s square. If you make it in the shape of a square, it is both square and a square.

    • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      That’s a weird and confusing language if true.

      At least in geometry square is a special case of rectangle.

      Edit: I looked into dictionary and you are right, it also is another word for right angle. English is a weird language.