• @lugal@sopuli.xyz
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    801 month ago

    That’s because the scientific definition of berries has little in common with the colloquial one. That doesn’t make either wrong, they are just used in different contexts

      • @lugal@sopuli.xyz
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        21 month ago

        The thing is, there is for sure some Latin technical term that you can use. And it’s still close enough to berries to call them that.

        • Tlaloc_Temporal
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          21 month ago

          Oh probably, but I don’t speak latin. Most people don’t speak latin; there’s like 1000 people in the world maximum who could hold a conversation in latin.

          • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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            21 month ago

            I love it.

            I know you didn’t mean it, but this has the, “Do I LOOK like I speak Latin?” Energy and as a American, I’m all about that.

            • Tlaloc_Temporal
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              11 month ago

              Lucky, I mean it is exactly the opposite way! Teach me some local languages, like Cree or Dene, maybe something Inuk.

              I guess I am telling people to speak English though, aren’t I? Well it’s good to keep updated on the colonizer tongue I suppose.

              Now get off my native grass lawn!