Reg posted...
If I say "I'm going to draw rectangles" and then you look at my drawings and they're a bunch of squares, that is not going to be what you expected. If I said "I drew a rectangle", you are going to be even
more
surprised if it turns out that I drew a square.
touch but also i think math is an area where it makes a lot more sense to have technical definitions that everyone can be on the same page with, sandwich it's a lot less important to be "technically correct" as almost all scenarios where you say sandwich, what matters more is what people practically understand it to mean.
also, i'd argue the reason sandwich is defined the way it is in the dictionary (i.e. two pieces of bread with something between them) is because there's no real way to
exclude
hamburger from this without making an awkward and unwieldly definition
like the point of the dictionary is to define words how they are used, but i think even if somehow everyone in the world all agreed they'd never call a hamburger a sandwich, no dictionary writer would find an elegant way to write "bread with something between it but NOT if that thing is a beef patty" so they probably still wouldn't define it that way