Is there even a botanical definition of vegetables?
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de āØ21ā© āØminutesā© ago
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world āØ1ā© āØhourā© ago
Fruit the botanical term and fruit the culinary term are just not the same word. Similarly to how theory means something different in science and in colloquial speech. Thatās just how language works.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world āØ52ā© āØminutesā© ago
More people ought to learn about the programming language concept of namespaces. Generalize from that and you realize that every domain of discourse has its own namespace of words that have different meanings from those same words outside the domain.
My favourite is math which has loads of wonderfully generic-sounding terms such as rational, irrational, radical, real, imaginary, complex, group, ring, field, category, set, operator, element, and unit which all have radically different meanings from the everyday senses of those words.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world āØ2ā© āØhoursā© ago
Okay, but the ruling is totally sensible inasmuch as it applies to āpurposes of tariffs, imports and customsā. Tomatoes by and large arenāt being imported for their botanical value; theyāre being used for food. This ruling exists so corporations canāt āum ackshuallyā their way out of paying their fair share.
But thatās too sensinle; in reality, this unanimous ruling that I never bothered to spend five seconds researching independently (I am very intellectually superior) was just āle Americans uneducated ecksdeeā.
oo1@lemmings.world āØ2ā© āØhoursā© ago
āFruit de la mereā is obviously just some attempted tax dodge.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works āØ2ā© āØhoursā© ago
Botanically, sure, but from a culinary perspective theyāre used like a vegetable.
Valmond@lemmy.world āØ1ā© āØhourā© ago
As they say, intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
(Thatās the saying, but IMO itās wisdom to know and intelligence to not do it, maybe Iām mixing things up).
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works āØ43ā© āØminutesā© ago
Knowledge and wisdom is the one Iāve heard before.
just2look@lemmy.zip āØ2ā© āØhoursā© ago
I donāt think vegetable is a botanical term. So fruit and vegetable arenāt really mutually exclusive.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone āØ2ā© āØhoursā© ago
Yeah I mean, mushrooms get lumped into the vegetable category most of the time and theyāre a fungus!
Gyroplast@pawb.social āØ2ā© āØhoursā© ago
Thatās just science as applied by engineers.
Stern@lemmy.world āØ7ā© āØminutesā© ago
en.wikipedia.org/ā¦/Toy_Biz,_Inc._v._United_States
Also the X-men arenāt human. Kinda makes the court system feel like the baddies tho