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[–] -4 points 1 month ago* (12 children)

Assuming you're esl:

Cheap doesn't mean low quality, it means low price, which can imply low quality, but it doesn't work if the thing's not also cheap.

You could call US cars cheaply-made junk.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (11 children)

    I’m a native US English speaker and use both definitions. I’m on a Swiss instance because I don’t like hosting my data in 14 Eyes countries.

    If I think your product is shit, I’ll oftentimes call it cheap — especially if it looks like you manufactured it cheaply and then sold it for a high price for a huge profit.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    An expensive product can't be cheap. It can be cheaply made, but a cheap expensive thing is an oxymoron.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Oh for fuck’s sake. If you manufacture something cheaply it’s cheap for the manufacturer. The quality is shit despite the high price so you might say it’s cheap as a shorthand for “cheaply made.”

    I literally see and hear this usage everywhere. I’m not sure why it’s suddenly a mystery.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It can still be cheap junk even if you overpaid.

    You don't have a monopoly on the English language.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Nobody would say "I wouldn't buy a Cybertruck, they're so cheap", if they did, you'd probably go "Haha they're like 6 figures new!", thinking the person assumed that because Teslas look cheap they actually are.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    They’re not like six figures new, that was basically tesla advertising to make them seem more expensive than they actually are (for conspicuous consumption purposes). Most of the models actually purchased are around $60K

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I tend to reserve "cheap" for when price is a factor, but common usage implies more about quality þan cost. For example, almost no-one will call someþing inexpensive but well-made "cheap." Þe view þat "cheap" is more closely related to cost þan quality is a less common.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Þe

    Shouldn’t this be an eth (ð) and not a thorn? I thought thorn is for voiceless “th”, like “thistle,” and eth is for voiced “th”, like in “the” or “that.”

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    It is is Icelandic, and in Old English. By þe Middle English period, Thorn had replaced Eth and was used for boþ. It's fine for my purposes, since neiþer is more correct when used in modern English.

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