Why was the mushroom invited to so many parties? Because it was a fun-gi! Yaaass, puns are great. I’ve had entire text exchanges with nothing but puns.
OK, fungibility (which spell-check is telling me is not a word even though fungible is so why wouldn’t fungibility be the ability to be fungible? Ughh, English) surprisingly has nothing to do with fungus or its plural, fungi.
I had a conversation just a little while ago (today is Dec 16, 2020 for those from the future) with someone who I’d never met and during the conversation he said the words “infinitely fungible.” I had to hit up the Googs to figure out what it meant and make sure I understood what he was trying to say.
I know what infinitely means, and I was pretty sure I knew what fungible meant, and I’m pretty good at figuring things out from context but I had never heard someone say that before! I was caught off guard, baffled, perplexed. So I decided to write about it.
The conversation was centered around my interest in a position with the company he works for. It wasn’t an interview — I’d actually just received a “going with other candidates” notice from his company — it was just a conversation to explore why I was interested in the company, what I wanted to do, and some friendly advice between two strangers.
