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Getting a job just keeps becoming tougher
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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Only for Ken Cheng <3
He's the exception that proves the rule.
I started reading Bill Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words last night, and apparently that phrase doesn't mean what we think it means, although you may be using it correctly here.
Good book.
Interesting, we have the same expression in french and it is also commonly misunderstood and has also been traced back to latin ("Exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis") which was a law thing supposed to mean that the mention of an exception implies the existence of a rule. E.g "no parking on Sundays" implies you can park there the other days.
This is what I heard about the English variant, too. I wonder if "prove = test" is grounded in research, or just folk etymology like "the mall = a place to visit them all" or "news = North East West South" (both are wrong, but the news is quite old and may have had influence on new becoming news)
That's very interesting, I shall look into that book, thank you for the recommendation.
I think that posting Ken screenshots to this community here kind of fits both meanings of that phrase because:
You always get people in the comments questioning should Ken screenshots be posted here as he's not an actual linkedin lunatic, but a satire of one.
Ken screenshots are still allowed because if you didn't detect the sarcasm and were as dense as some real people who are posted here, then you could mistake it for genuine lunacy. Therefore he's the single exception of satirical posts amongst a sea of real ones.