Science jargon has always sounded so impressive until I took anatomy.
for example, the big hole in the bottom of your skull (where the spinal chord passes through) is called the “foramen magnum” which is Latin for ‘big hole’.
South Africa is a region composed of several countries and eleven non-english languages. You're going to judge them based on a word Americans misspell??
South Africa is a country, or did you mean counties? They're called provinces there. Despite the 11 official languages, the primary language is English, it's considered an English speaking country.
“God safe us” - irony right there especially when critical of someone else’s use of an acronym perhaps one’s own grasp of the English language should be a little better!!!
Care to elaborate? I may have missed a comma here or there, but what else was wrong?
I mean your own spelling is rather atrocious - especially when devices tend to have a spell check; “Muphry”? Is he a distant cousin of Murphy perchance?
Oh and I use the Kings English here in my country, not “US English” …..
Oh my word, this was embarrassing for you. 😂 My spelling was absolutely perfect, you shmuck. No wonder you deleted it before I even saw the reply in my inbox.
You're right. The schmuck name calling was perhaps a bit harsh on you.
You were "playing" on Murphy/Muphry? What does that mean? It seems like you just didn't know Muphry's Law was a thing, and you tried to hang me for "misspelling" it, then you realized what it is and deleted the comment. But maybe I'm just assuming. 🤷♂️
I don't know if you're bantering, perhaps you are. I just have a hobby of shitting on people's grammar that complain about other people's grammar. It's this Robin Hood type of feeling I get. I'm probably sick or something.
Fair enough, let's have at it, Mr. "King's English". (God, do you even hear how insufferably pretentious that sounds?)
Let's start with the original comment. My edits in [brackets].
“God safe us” - [the] irony right there[... something? "is funny"? What about the irony? You have to finish the thought.][missing comma] especially when critical of someone else’s use of an acronym[comma] perhaps one’s own grasp of the English language should be a little better!!! [Overuse of exclamation points, although one could argue the level of severity in the contents of your message...]
God save us …. [space between "us" and the ellipsis"; and an extra period after the ellipsis]
Next comment!
Well then[missing comma] use this as a teaching moment and elaborate[missing comma; also another "then"? Then then then then.] then?
I live in a country that uses the King’s English[pretentious af but nothing wrong here], not the American version[missing comma] so please enlighten me - [hyphen instead of en dash] I do enjoy learning. [Good, you're learning right now.]
But don’t say there are ["is an amount", probably? I don't know what the King says, but that's what I would say] an amount of errors without even trying to quantify them….given [again, ellipsis with an extra period; also the weird use of an ellipsis here – it should be a comma] the burden of proof rests with you.
“God safe us” - [the] irony right there[... something? "is funny"? What about the irony? You have to finish the thought.]
That clause was fine up to the missing commas. He's pointing at the phrase and saying that's irony right there. Perhaps you're unfamiliar with that structure. I don't think it's common in all Englishes
[hyphen instead of en dash]
That's pedantic. Nearly no one uses en and em dashes; if they're typing on a physical keyboard those dashes are hard to type
Now, I'm not as much of a grammar nerd as I'd like to be, but from what I understand, "irony right there" isn't a complete sentence, or barely even a complete clause. It's just a few words that should be part of a clause.
Maybe someone could fill in the grammatical details here, or prove me wrong.
It gets worse. Desoxyephedrine and deoxyephedrine are two completely different substances. Ones methamphetamine and the other is natural and as drugs they act very differently.
I'm impressed by how much Cunningham's Law is in the comments. I can't tell if they don't get the joke, or if the joke is too deep and I'm the one missing it.
I accidentally uploaded the wrong post and then replaced it within a few seconds. Sometimes that doesn't always federate right, so if you're seeing one about a funny guy on LinkedIn and not this, that could explain it:
155 Comments
Vinny_93@lemmy.world · 212 pts · 1y
Should we point out that in this context it's 'save', not 'safe'? If you're going to correct someone's spelling, make sure your own is impeccable.
Vent@lemm.ee · 204 pts · 1y
Nah. It's engagement bait, plane and simple
Ziglin@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 1y
It works too well… plain and simple.
That missing period had better also have been intentional.
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y
But how can you be sertain?
Socket462@feddit.it · 27 pts · 1y
That's the neet part. You can't
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 1y
I sea
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Sayes the blind man.
Philote@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y
Who pict up a hammer and saw.
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Because hammer and siecle was taken
SeekPie@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 1y
Says the fuck you guy.
nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
neet
Socket462@feddit.it · 2 pts · 1y
I now.
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y
The fact that that's a thing is why I don't use the more mainstream social media. Only Lemmy.
flyingchaucer@lemmy.sdf.org · 22 pts · 1y
Its another classic case of Muphry's Law.
Bumblefumble@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
Don't you meen Murphy's Law?
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
MUUUURPH!
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 1y
Sure out to getcha!
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y
Bubs@lemm.ee · 26 pts · 1y
Youeu're*
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 1y
Youropean Younion
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Juropen Junion
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y
Yore?
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
In the days of?
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Ur
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y
ur
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Lol. Wrong.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
You're* wrong.
Grimy@lemmy.world · 168 pts · 1y
Deoxyribonucleic acid, for anyone wondering
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 187 pts · 1y
Deoxyribo&ucleic acid, for anyone sophisticated
alquicksilver@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 1y
Deoxyriboanducleic acid, according to Shadow Radar.
lakemalcom10@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 1y
Well... deoxyribo and acid. The whole "n" is gone
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Yeah we don't use the N word anymore.
marcos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Well, I'm pretty sure bacteria and others aren't thrilled by the blatant and offensive pro-prokaryote bias on that name.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Ucleic acid
New band name or refreshing treat?
Nobody decides
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
God safe us
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Wouldn’t it be Deoxyriboandacid?
very_well_lost@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Sometimes I take an andacid when my stomach hurts.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
More acid ought to do the trick
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Ah yes, cue Monocle'd Pooh!
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 20 pts · 1y
Dicks n ass, for anyone wondering. It’s the male version of tna.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Sure that first one is plural?
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y
It's a gay term, and when gay men have sex, there is usually more than one dick. It's a play on TNA, which is plural too.
There is a gay magazine called DNA, a play on the fact that it may be genetic. we all know what they really mean.
But, sure, in a straight monogamous relationship, there may be a singular. Broaden your mind to other possibilities.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
Um ok... Then why is ass singular?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
All asses are actually the same ass, travelling forward and backward through time.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 1y
It's a collective noun
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
Or DRNA to anyone in the know.
Artyom@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
I get mad every time I think about it that we don't call it DRNA
madthumbs@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I have this acronym finder as a search engine shortcut in vomnibar. It never has what I'm looking for:
Department(al) Network Administrator Datanetwork Associates (Software) Does Not Apply
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
Did someone tell these vomnibar people that their name sounds like vomitbar
LouSlash@szmer.info · 1 pts · 1y
And?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
I think you mean deoxyribo and acid.
yesman@lemmy.world · 106 pts · 1y
Science jargon has always sounded so impressive until I took anatomy.
for example, the big hole in the bottom of your skull (where the spinal chord passes through) is called the “foramen magnum” which is Latin for ‘big hole’.
NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz · 20 pts · 1y
Is it jargon or just a different language
tdawg@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1y
Scientists use one to pretend the other
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
You gotta mix Greek and Latin to make it sound
cool.leisesprecher@feddit.org · 12 pts · 1y
I recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?
dingus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Get this. You have a structure in your brain called the "mammillary bodies". It's because it looks like a pair of tits.
azi@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Unlike the cowards who hide their stupid names with latin, computer scientists will straight up call something a 'fat pointer'.
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 1y
What part of deoxyribonucleic acid do you not understand?
CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 1y
Dungeons nucleic Dragons
debil@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
This new craze they call "rock nucleic roll" is driving the country's youth wild!
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Oh, yeah, that's fair.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
The elven part
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 1y
What if I told you there's another kind of DNA for which that statement is actually true?
kautau@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 1y
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
kautau@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
That's South Africa, you can't expect that much from a 30% pass mark.
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 1y
South Africa is a region composed of several countries and eleven non-english languages. You're going to judge them based on a word Americans misspell??
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
South Africa is a country, or did you mean counties? They're called provinces there. Despite the 11 official languages, the primary language is English, it's considered an English speaking country.
peanutyam@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 1y
“God safe us” - irony right there especially when critical of someone else’s use of an acronym perhaps one’s own grasp of the English language should be a little better!!!
God save us ….
Localhorst86@feddit.org · 38 pts · 1y
May god shave us all.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 1y
Up yours Trebek!
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Shave my wife, I'm goin' down for the last time!
victorz@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
The amount of grammatical mistakes in your own comment is pretty ironic as well.
Muphry's Law strikes again.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 1y
Excuse me, it's Muphry's Theory. It hasn't been proven enough to be a scientific law.
Subverb@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
I dont believe in Muphies Theory cause uts just a theory. I've done my own research and u ahoukd to.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y
Hehe I remember Muphies. That Kermit always got up to shenanigans!
victorz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
😆👌 fair enough
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I'm sure this comment can't go wromg.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
Menzies'es Pretty Solid Hunch
peanutyam@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Oh my word, this was embarrassing for you. 😂 My spelling was absolutely perfect, you shmuck. No wonder you deleted it before I even saw the reply in my inbox.
peanutyam@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Hardly embarrassing - you don’t seem to understand light hearted banter clearly….yes I was playing on Murphy/Muphry.
Geez straight to name calling though - classy 🙄
Have a nice life.
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
You're right. The schmuck name calling was perhaps a bit harsh on you.
You were "playing" on Murphy/Muphry? What does that mean? It seems like you just didn't know Muphry's Law was a thing, and you tried to hang me for "misspelling" it, then you realized what it is and deleted the comment. But maybe I'm just assuming. 🤷♂️
I don't know if you're bantering, perhaps you are. I just have a hobby of shitting on people's grammar that complain about other people's grammar. It's this Robin Hood type of feeling I get. I'm probably sick or something.
Take care!
peanutyam@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y
Well then use this as a teaching moment and elaborate then?
I live in a country that uses the King’s English, not the American version so please enlighten me - I do enjoy learning.
But don’t say there are an amount of errors without even trying to quantify them….given the burden of proof rests with you.
victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Fair enough, let's have at it, Mr. "King's English". (God, do you even hear how insufferably pretentious that sounds?)
Let's start with the original comment. My edits in [brackets].
Next comment!
Did you learn something?
psud@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y
That clause was fine up to the missing commas. He's pointing at the phrase and saying that's irony right there. Perhaps you're unfamiliar with that structure. I don't think it's common in all Englishes
That's pedantic. Nearly no one uses en and em dashes; if they're typing on a physical keyboard those dashes are hard to type
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I am, but it's grammatically insufficient. Idiomatically/colloquially/slang wise, it's fine. I understood enough to know what they mean, obviously.
Of course it's pedantic. I'm going out of my way to be pedantic to show this grammar snob what it feels like to throw the first stone.
Skill issue. If they care enough, it's easy to find out how. 🤷♂️ I use them all the time.
Thanks for joining the fun!
stephen01king@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
Isn't the first mistake simply him using the sentence to declare there is irony? How is that an incomplete sentence?
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Could you clarify? Do you mean to say it's incomplete or actually complete?
stephen01king@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
I meant to say that part is already a complete sentence.
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Now, I'm not as much of a grammar nerd as I'd like to be, but from what I understand, "irony right there" isn't a complete sentence, or barely even a complete clause. It's just a few words that should be part of a clause.
Maybe someone could fill in the grammatical details here, or prove me wrong.
HeurtisticAlgorithm9@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y
Whoooosh
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
There's no formal rule, but adjectives can function as verbs in day to day English. can mean the same thing as make .
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 1y
However, we all know she made a typo while criticising someone else's understanding of words
oo1@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 1y
Aka chrolling for clickbate.
Rato@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 1y
TheTux@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 1y
TGhost@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 1y
Moc@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y
Rainb0wSkeppy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
slingstone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
msmeseeks2004@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
TheTux@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y
It begins...
digdilem@lemmy.ml · 62 pts · 1y
This post permanently lowered my IQ
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 62 pts · 1y
Desoxyribose & Acid
Name a more iconic duo, I'm waiting
Shou@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
deoxyribose & acid
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 1y
In German it's "Desoxyribonukleinsäure". I never realized English doesn't have the "s"
roguetrick@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
It gets worse. Desoxyephedrine and deoxyephedrine are two completely different substances. Ones methamphetamine and the other is natural and as drugs they act very differently.
Schmuppes@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 1y
Which one
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
The first one. I knew Säure is acid
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Does sound like some kind of duo.
Comedy duo maybe?
Psych Hop, aka Psychedelic Hip Hop... is that even a thing?
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com · 58 pts · 1y
DNA is AND when you reverse it.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y
And?
credo@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y
Yes.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Wait, I think we're improvising wrong.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
This makes way more sense than RNA
ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml · 32 pts · 1y
Pretty sure it's Dinosaurs, Nucleaics & Acid.
Doom@ttrpg.network · 6 pts · 1y
I thought it was the three branches of science? Dinosaurs, Nukes and Aerodynamics?
MITM0@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y
Nucleic isn't a thing huh ? Can we send these people to a Gulag
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Call the Marxists
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
Douglas Adams' middle name was "Noel", not "and".
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe · 21 pts · 1y
God safe us indeed
DankDingleberry@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
"Desoxyriboandnukleicacid"
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 1y
My favorite part of the atom is the &uclease
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Hi, my name is Timmy Atom and this is my pet electron, &uckease.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 1y
I'm impressed by how much Cunningham's Law is in the comments. I can't tell if they don't get the joke, or if the joke is too deep and I'm the one missing it.
A_A@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Today I learned :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Cunningham's_Law
Cunningham is credited with the idea: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
D 'n A
TheV2@programming.dev · 11 pts · 1y
(But it'd be bad satire to repeat the joke)
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
The depth to which he has gone to illustrate what a simple /whoosh would a done is part of the sad tire no?
shoulderoforion@fedia.io · 10 pts · 1y
I think i'm having a stroke, because I have no fucking idea what's going on here
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
I accidentally uploaded the wrong post and then replaced it within a few seconds. Sometimes that doesn't always federate right, so if you're seeing one about a funny guy on LinkedIn and not this, that could explain it:
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y
In Canadian it's DNeh?
Maalus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
It's DNeh, eh? actually
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Hey bud, how’s she goin’? They’re just talking about Dean, eh. He left for beers and weed and hasn’t returned. We need beers and weed.
A7thStone@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
DnF'nA
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
DFWTDNA
(don't fuck with the dna)
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Yes, just like that volatile T&T that likes to go boom.
/s
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Jeebus that boy ain't right
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 1y
I don't know what y'all are talking about. Personally, I enjoy Tits Nucleic Ass.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Anyone else ever heard someone refer to it as "Denna"? I did once and I just let it go. I wanted to see if it catches on in the wild.
Kvoth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
What about denna?
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 1y
Just like in TNA,, I reckon. Stay in school.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
"I DiD My OwN ReSeArCh! There's a meme about it!"
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
It's pure and there's nine of em!
exploitedamerican@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
This whole time i thought it was dioxy rizzz o nuke-in-your anus
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
Yo Shadow Raiders was a sick show
Randelung@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Desoxyribo-antacid.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
After saving I’d like a quickload. Did too much bad shit
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
When, as we all know, it stands for n-BOOOOOP
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
D&A stands for "Drug & Alcohol Evaluation" as in "Came in for D&A per PO"