A miser is someone who is infatuated with the past, and is grumpy about the present, (compared to depressive, or someone who is infatuated with the future, and depressed about the present), so when did it come to mean someone who is a cheapskate and stingy over money?
it feels like the English language has become simpler in vocabulary, like Chinese language, since 2017
oh. youre just baiting. sorry for engaging with sincerity
what makes you think I’m baiting? I recommend you learning German or Japanese languages, or even Modern Hebrew (compared to Hebrew from the Roman era), rather than Chinese language.
I dont want to get into a massive comment chain about basically nothing.
Engage with the discussion?
what’s your question?
where did you get the definition of “miser” from? because its wrong.
“Miser is a grumpy person who lives in the past, instead of the present”, was the definition people used in the US before 2016.
I literally cited a dictionary. Ill assume youre being obtuse on purpose at this point, engaging in bad faith.
cite a dictionary from before 2016, instead, that’s not online
It seems like you’re baiting because we have never heard this definition before:
Did you get it from an AI chatbot?
“Miser is a grumpy person who lives in the past, instead of the present”, was the definition people used in the US before 2016.
citation needed
I don’t think you’re talking to an actual human tbh.
Source?