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Also: water is wet.
This is an argument I have with friends, water is not wet, it makes things wet. It's why firefighters add things like dish soap when they need "wet water."
Water makes itself wet.
It makes your mom wet.
That’s my job actually
You are correct. There is even such a thing as dry water. I was first going to put the sky is blue, but similar arguments can be made there.
We find joy where we can in these crazy times and finding this nothing burger of an argument brings me joy.
The water on the other water makes the other water wet, and vice versa
Coming at it from a colloquial definition and not a chemist's definition, though. And I prefer the colloquial definition of "wet".
Are fish in the sea wet? Or are things wet only when they have some water on them but not all of the water? So then do fish get wet the moment you take them out of the water?
Yeah, fish in the sea are definitely wet. As is a swimmer under the water
Ooh, one of my favorites!
Water isn't wet, but wet is water.