Comment on Deez peets

morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  With a helpful reminder in parenthesis that they mean flamingo the bird, as opposed to the casino, which doesn’t have any feet.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    According to their press kit, their casino alone has 93,000 feet. All or them square for some reason.

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    • don@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As opposed to, what, triangular feet? Spiral feet? Perhaps you’d feel better if their feet were hyperboloid? ffs get a grip.

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    • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They have even more cubic feet.

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• PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But why Katakana? Those are some reasonably basic kanji- certainly not beyond bird anyway.

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  • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it seems that the scientific nomenclature for families of animals in Japanese uses katakana:

    • ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/イヌ
    • ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ウマ

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