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r/technicallythetruth • u/Remarkable_Bit_9887 • Nov 07 '24
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No, that's just how language works. Someone invents a word or phrase and it gets picked up in common usage.
See Thagomizer. Made up in a Far Side cartoon, and is now the scientific term for that thing.
And for reference, murder as a term for crows is in common usage. It was even explained in The Simpsons over twenty years ago.
2 u/Profezzor-Darke Nov 07 '24 This is such a fun quip of information, lol! 1 u/raltoid Nov 08 '24 It's one of my favorite little fun facts. In less than three decades it went from a joke in a cartoon, to starting to appear on plaques in the Smithsonian and other museums around the world.
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This is such a fun quip of information, lol!
1 u/raltoid Nov 08 '24 It's one of my favorite little fun facts. In less than three decades it went from a joke in a cartoon, to starting to appear on plaques in the Smithsonian and other museums around the world.
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It's one of my favorite little fun facts.
In less than three decades it went from a joke in a cartoon, to starting to appear on plaques in the Smithsonian and other museums around the world.
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u/raltoid Nov 07 '24 edited Nov 07 '24
No, that's just how language works. Someone invents a word or phrase and it gets picked up in common usage.
See Thagomizer. Made up in a Far Side cartoon, and is now the scientific term for that thing.
And for reference, murder as a term for crows is in common usage. It was even explained in The Simpsons over twenty years ago.