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The rule nobody wrote down but everyone gets punished for breaking.
means A standard or pattern of behavior that's typical or expected within a group.
from From Latin 'norma,' meaning a carpenter's square — the tool used to check if an angle was truly right. The word traveled from measuring physical right angles to measuring behavioral ones: a 'norm' became the invisible square everyone's conduct gets held up against.
- enforcement
- awkward silence, not laws
- origin
- latin for carpenter's square
- stability
- holds until one brave idiot breaks it
- superpower
- makes weird things feel invisible