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[–]SpitalianSpeaker of the Hiss language. 45ポイント46ポイント  (73子コメント)

Sea stars aren't stars, call them seas ... wait. They're not seas either.

Also I'm pretty sure I was wondering about the killer whale thing before, so I looked it up and killer whales are, in fact, whales. (Edit: checked again, and they're toothed whales, part of the dolphin family, which is generally excluded from whales. So they're not whales, they're toothed whales.)

Also I went to a presentation by a biologist, and he literally said that anyone who calls a jellyfish a jellyfish is stupid. That made me slightly irritated.

[–]Pennwisedom亞亞論! IS THERE AN 亞亞論 HERE? 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

checked again, and they're toothed whales, part of the dolphin family, which is generally excluded from whales. So they're not whales, they're toothed whales

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it seems to me that the large class is "toothed whales" as distinct from the baleen wales, but that Dolphins are included in this. Not the other way around.

Edit: I did not read the rest of this thread.

[–]Nimblestyx 31ポイント32ポイント  (8子コメント)

Fuck, why stop there?

Butterflies aren't flies. Call them flutterbies.

Skyscrapers aren't scrapers. Call them tallbuildings.

The Internet is not a net. Call it the Informationarium.

[–]huf 16ポイント17ポイント  (3子コメント)

buildings arent buildings. they're already built, in most cases.

[–]alynnidalarI write poetry in stupid nun English. 8ポイント9ポイント  (2子コメント)

So what you're saying is that we should call them builtings.

[–]Conchobair-sama 10ポイント11ポイント  (1子コメント)

Or just builts

[–]huf 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

i've always been partial to "hice"

[–]NoahTheDuke 11ポイント12ポイント  (1子コメント)

Informationarium.

Yes pease

[–]HomSigWie dit leest is gek. 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

The internet forms a network though.

[–]alynnidalarI write poetry in stupid nun English. 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

But a network doesn't have any physical nets involved either! And let's be real, we're both on Reddit right now so there certainly isn't any work being done.

[–]borunoGrammar nazis are the fashion police of language 24ポイント25ポイント  (0子コメント)

Don't tell him strawberries aren't berries! And not made of straw!

[–]TitusBluthSpanish, for example, sounds just like Dutch! 23ポイント24ポイント  (24子コメント)

[–]Conchobair-sama 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

But then I wouldn't be able to feel better than everyone else!

[–]_TheRooseIsLoose_ 23ポイント24ポイント  (2子コメント)

You all say this isn't necessary but clearly you've never been tricked into eating your burger with a sea cucumber.

[–]Conchobair-sama 18ポイント19ポイント  (1子コメント)

One time, I ordered a Hamburger with a Berliner for dessert, and I ended up kidnapping and cannibalizing two Germans.

[–]borunoGrammar nazis are the fashion police of language 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

As a cannibal, I was really disappointed with the Brazilian they gave me.

[–]2awesome4wordsaliens created Egyptian and that's why it don't vowel 16ポイント17ポイント  (10子コメント)

I love how mad he is that no one fucking cares. Like, so mad he had to come here and explain why everyone is so wrong and it's so confusing to use inaccurate names, when really it's not confusing at all and everyone else except him has zero trouble with this.

Some people are so unreasonable. We already have a taxonomic system that people like this pedant can use. The rest of us are gonna happily colloquialize with people who aren't snotty assholes.

Even actual marine biologists do not give a shit about this.

[–]borunoGrammar nazis are the fashion police of language 10ポイント11ポイント  (4子コメント)

I think there's a general feeling currently that people know no science. Some scientists (cough Neil deGrasse Tyson cough) think that by pedantically correcting people, they "educate the masses". This spreads towards other areas, such as biology. "If Neil tweets about the stars in Titanic being wrong, why can't I rant about starfish? We're heroes!"

[–]alynnidalarI write poetry in stupid nun English. 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Also, a lot of people don't get the difference between gently pointing something out for interest's sake or amusement, and pointing something out so you can feel superior. Like the Titanic thing, I really doubt Tyson was trying to imply it's a bad movie because the stars were wrong. Or like when people criticize the depiction of chairs in Prince of Egypt in /r/badhistory. It's all in good fun.

But when you start getting legitimately upset because other people don't call starfish "sea stars"? Yeah, that's a totally different thing.

[–]2awesome4wordsaliens created Egyptian and that's why it don't vowel 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

Ah, yeah that is a trend I've noticed as well. It's really unhelpful. :(

[–]lolzycakes 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

It's often counter productive! This guy went on to claim that Killer Whales aren't whales, they're dolphins. Totally ignoring the fact that dolphins are a subgroup of a subgroup of whales. Sure, referring to them as Dolphins is more precise, but needlessly so. But saying they're not whales is absolutely wrong in every sense.

I wonder if he'd argue that Squares aren't Rectangles too.

[–]2awesome4wordsaliens created Egyptian and that's why it don't vowel 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yes! It is just such a waste of time.

I wonder if he'd argue that Squares aren't Rectangles too.

Ahahaha omg he totally would.

[–]pubtothemax 8ポイント9ポイント  (1子コメント)

He's so mad he even corrected someone for not using the subjunctive mood properly, which is a level of grammatical pedantry I've rarely witnessed.

[–]2awesome4wordsaliens created Egyptian and that's why it don't vowel 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Right? That is like +20 pedantry.

[–]Pyromane_WapuskI am normal, you are weird 6ポイント7ポイント  (2子コメント)

I have met biologists who did spout this nonsense to students... Not all biologists, but some get too caught up with common names.

I almost had argument with a prof over the fact that French doesnt have a separate word for moths and for butterflies just papillon and papillon de nuit which means "night butterfly". He thought that this was somehow a lexical gap in French. I was like "but moths and butterflies are both Lepidoptera, and in French there's basically one common name for all Lepidoptera"...

[–]2awesome4wordsaliens created Egyptian and that's why it don't vowel 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

lol what? What a ludicrous thing for him to get so... well it's almost like he was personally offended by it, isn't it? People sure think they know a lot about language and linguistics when they actually do not -- especially when they've never done any linguistics before. It's pretty unfortunate.

[–]Pyromane_WapuskI am normal, you are weird 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think monolingual scientists are more likely to insist on a correct common name despite having technical Latin terms and binomial nomenclature.

The feeling that I got from him was more "other cultures are strange"/discovering new culture than "other cultures are wrong" although it can be a short jump between the two.

[–]chrysicsAnglo-Saxon: a simple language considered vulgar and stupid 11ポイント12ポイント  (2子コメント)

ladybirds are neither ladies nor birds. what should I be calling those?

[–]borunoGrammar nazis are the fashion police of language 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

I, for one, call them polka beetles.

[–]mysticrudninL1 english L2 cannon blast 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

wugs

[–]HomespunMurderStory 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

This smells fishy ha ha ha ha ha ha

[–]SchadenfreudeEmpathy 8ポイント9ポイント  (2子コメント)

Now I'm getting a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves; here, I'll give you a topic: Starfish are neither stars nor fish, discuss.

[–]Conchobair-sama 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

I call them Submarine-Biotic-Organisms-with-Radial-Symmetry.

[–]Ocean_Ghost 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Is that you, Leonardo da Quirm?

[–]anschelsc 8ポイント9ポイント  (3子コメント)

I have to wonder if OP has ever encountered an eggplant.

[–]Xuidj1105Jutes Rights Activist 8ポイント9ポイント  (2子コメント)

Or a hedgehog.

[–]anschelsc 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Chipmunks aren't monks! Call them mini-squirrels!

[–]wizardcats 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

And has apparently never eaten a hot dog.

[–]BadLinguisticsBotGuess who's back 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

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[–]moethebartender 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

If only the OP knew that the term "fish" is no more "scientific" than "starfish." At the very least, it's not a single taxonomic classification, though biologists recognize the concept of a "fish" as being "an aquatic vertebrate with gills that is not an amphibian, reptile, bird, or mammal." All fish species do share a common ancestor, but it's the same common ancestor as all other vertebrates -- the term for that is "paraphyletic." Very /r/iamverysmart of the OP.