#notaseagull

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• Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If 90% of the population call them seagulls, and 99% of the population understand what you mean when you say “seagull”, then yes, they are actually called seagulls

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  • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s like what I say to bother botanists:

    If half of the fruits with “berry” in their name don’t fit your definition of berry, you need a new definition

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    • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pretty sure botanists are aware that the same word can have different meaning outside of their scientific field. The people actually bothered by this are pedants who read about it on the internet, not people who studied botany.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, no, there’s nothing wrong with the definition of berry, but there would be something wrong about a botanist being annoyed with someone using the colloquial definition of berry.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What if I told you that words can have different meanings in different contexts? Just because the same word can be used to refer to different things depending on whether its used in everyday or scientific speech doesn’t mean either usage is “wrong”.

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  • IMongoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Annoy naturalists with these other animal names too: Jellyfish, crawfish, starfish, Killer Whale, Canadian Geese, and American Buffalo.

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    • azi@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The buffalo thing pisses me off the most. Entire cultures are defined by that animal and it’s incredibly significant to the history of the prairies and the continent as a whole. So it’s pretty disrespectful to go to these people and go “um actually what you’ve been calling this animal for centuries is wrong actually because Linnaeus or whatever”

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    • Bertuccio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Canada Goose

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    • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Killer whale is orca which is a predatory whale.

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    • TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      wtf who’s beefing with starfish

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    • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Crawdads. Tasty with some hot sauce.

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Should we add an exception when it comes to technical discussions?

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    • Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you’re an ornithologist writing a scientific paper, you’d presumably be using a genus + species in Latin rather than any colloquial name anyway, while still acknowledging that they fall under the umbrella term “seagull” for most people. But I’m a descriptive linguist, rather than prescriptive, and that’s really what this meme is about (it’s not about seagulls)

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    • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Noooo then how are we going to get memes like this?

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• Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  50 species of gulls and every last one of them is a cunt.

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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fucking love seagulls. Grew up at the beach, gulls everywhere. They used to dig in our trash cans and we had to put heavy weights on the lids. Still fucking love em. They’re awesome, amazing trash birds who give zero fucks. I have seen gulls fully steal food from people’s mouths. I’ve seen them sit on windshields and refuse to move so you can drive, including just allowing the wipers to fwap into them repeatedly.

    Seagulls aren’t cunts. Seagulls serve cunt, and I love them for it.

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  • Naich@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They most certainly are not. Make friends with one and they will bring you presents. ! gullfriends@lemmings.world

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• BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wikipedia on Larus marinus, or the great black-backed gull:

  The scientific name is from Latin. Larus appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird. The specific name marinus means “marine”, or when taken together, “sea gull”.

  If that’s not a seagull I don’t know what is.

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• Xenny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why does a seagull fly over the sea? Because of they for over the bay they would be bagels!

  This joke echoes in my brain thanks to this one PBS commercial break snippet from my childhood. You’re welcome

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  • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I heard this joke for the first time a few weeks back on an episode of The Penguin. :D

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• Prandom_returns@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Achkchually, a pineapple is neither a pine, nor an apple.

  It’s actually an ananananas.

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  • azi@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Je suis un ananas

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    • Velonie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bonjour, allô, salut!

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  • TotalFat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sure, but ananananas-pen doesn’t have quite the same ring now does it?

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do dooo do do do,

    ananananas,

    Do do do do

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That anon’s name? Steven Seagullible

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• GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  From my experience, they’re “Hanging around outside the chip shop” gulls.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No one actually loves seagulls, but that’s got nothing to do with the fact there is no seagull.

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh hey flying vermin.

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• 10_0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now I know this, I will be crying every time I go to the ocean

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