Comment on Dolphins is whales.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months agoWords can mean more than one thing thought, and depending on the context it can be useful to convey the fact that the vertebrates all evolved from fish-like ancestors, or that whales are more closely related to some fish than those fish are related to other fish.
lugal@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
And it’s totally valid to use it that way even though I wouldn’t. That’s the “You decide” part of my first comment