castiellon@lemmy.zip to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 day agoWhat is the most confusing misnomer you've seen?lemmy.mlexternal-linkmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1118arrow-down1external-linkWhat is the most confusing misnomer you've seen?lemmy.mlcastiellon@lemmy.zip to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 day agomessage-square65fedilinkfile-text
Mine is “guinea pig” originating in andes (not guinea) and them being not-a-pig type, whole thing is just wrong.
minus-squareQuilotoa@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down3·1 day agoPrimodial soup. It was perfectly sterile. No organic matter in it. (didn’t exist yet.) Today’s oceans are wet cement in comparison.
minus-squaredavel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-21 day agoThe word primordial doesn’t imply anything living. It means something that came before something else. It’s the soup of organic compounds from which life originally formed.
minus-squareQuilotoa@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·18 hours agoMy problem is with the word soup. Scientists don’t call today’s ocean a soup and it has many times more compounds, materials, and living matter.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 hours agoWould you have preferred “primordial cereal” instead?
Primodial soup. It was perfectly sterile. No organic matter in it. (didn’t exist yet.) Today’s oceans are wet cement in comparison.
The word primordial doesn’t imply anything living. It means something that came before something else. It’s the soup of organic compounds from which life originally formed.
My problem is with the word soup. Scientists don’t call today’s ocean a soup and it has many times more compounds, materials, and living matter.
Would you have preferred “primordial cereal” instead?