As someone who lives solidly in corn maze country, this is a well used joke whenever the topic of corn mazes comes up. Which means I hear it about twice a week throughout the fall.
I mean it wasn't random. They came here, no one was present and they claimed it. And many were ok with sharing a bit when Europeans first arrived. The Europeans were the ones consistently ignoring their right of ownership and their right to exist.
You're right, as a group of people they prefer the term American Indian, but I'm not going to go and say "your should ask the Indians about that" because that sounds as stupid as whatever your argument is.
Which was I think about using "native" instead of "indiginous", which are literally synonyms in the context.
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Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world · 126 pts · 1y
Because that would be too corny
kambusha@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 1y
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 36 pts · 1y
A maizing mazing question.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 1y
As someone who lives solidly in corn maze country, this is a well used joke whenever the topic of corn mazes comes up. Which means I hear it about twice a week throughout the fall.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Rookie numbers.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org · 17 pts · 1y
One of the biggest, most famous corn maze attractions is called The Amazing Maize Maze
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com · 1 pts · 1y
Been around since before SSL
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
They should just call it a maize.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Uriel_Copy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Actually I went to one yearly in my childhood called the Maize Maze. Not in the US though.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y
The ways of this amazing maize maze will make you praise for days til you're in a glaze haze
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Says you.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
I says
Goretantath@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Because maize maze sounds like the start of a tongue-twister and Americans are lazy with talking.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
"is it just a maize maze? or, is it, like, a real maize maze maze?
Holyginz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
What an amaizing shower thought
moody@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 1y
A maize labyrinth would be better
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
Only if there's one path, no dead ends. A maze branches, a labyrinth doesn't and only winds around as one long path.
Siegfried@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
I think you mean a maize labyrinth
whaleross@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Because finding your way out is a real cornundrum
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg · 4 pts · 1y
Because that would be confusing
FelixMortane@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
Ma(i)ze ²
1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
You made me realize a Maize Maze has a real part and an imaginary part.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
They do, infact, call them a maize maze. This one is near my house and they change it up every year. It's really good fun.
https://www.maize-maze.com/locations/brimstage-maize-maze
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
It's called a maizmorra
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
For that matter, why is it called "getting corn-holed" instead of "getting maize-holed"
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Billy Mays Maize Maze Mayonnaise Mace
OldElfin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
My wife said because the answer is just, No.
cattywampas@lemm.ee · -12 pts · 1y
Because it's called corn in America.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 1y
You should ask the natives of the continent about that
Crashumbc@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
They are just earlier migrants :p
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
That means they had dibs.
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 1y
They were just sitting in the produce section though.
Edit: Not too many Bojack fans around here I guess.
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
What if they're incontinent?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 1y
You know the only continent humans are native to is Africa, right?
Indigenous is more correct because that involves the land changing someone, not just something coming from there.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz · -1 pts · 1y
You should ask Native Americans about that
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
They don't call themselves that, they call themselves by their individual tribe names...
They're not one bulk people.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
People Who Were There Before Europeans Came Over And Randomly Said They Own This Land Now?
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I mean it wasn't random. They came here, no one was present and they claimed it. And many were ok with sharing a bit when Europeans first arrived. The Europeans were the ones consistently ignoring their right of ownership and their right to exist.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
That's what I said. Europeans randomly claimed they own this now.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
You're right, as a group of people they prefer the term American Indian, but I'm not going to go and say "your should ask the Indians about that" because that sounds as stupid as whatever your argument is.
Which was I think about using "native" instead of "indiginous", which are literally synonyms in the context.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y
From my first reply:
You might not be aware of every pedantic difference, I didn't assume anyone would, that's why I explicitly stated it
Feel free to Google and check my work, but this isn't an argument someone can win, words have meaning.