Megalosaro
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My whole life I thought Jackalopes were real.
Last week I found out they're not
Last week I found out they're not
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Common misconceptions that you believed for a long time
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This stems from an oversimplification of the neurological basis for taste perception. Essentially, there are chemical receptors at the surface of the tongue that aren't homogeneously distributed, hence the idea of 'zones.'
Edit: A lot of what is taught in science in high school are sorts of place holders that give the gestalt of complex biological processes.
I used to think the expression was "You want your cake and eat it, too." The actual expression is "You want to eat your cake and have it to."
John Kowalski
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I know. God bless her.
righthandmouse
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That clouds fuck up gps signals.
Yeah it's kinda messed up how a disease makes them look the way they do. Pretty grisly. Easy to think that's why a jackalope exists though.
ncsuDuncan
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The pronunciation of the word "forte" when used as a synonym of "skill".
Most people say "for-tay" but the correct pronunciation is one syllable: "fort".
(In the context of musical notation though it is pronounced "for-tay".)
Most people say "for-tay" but the correct pronunciation is one syllable: "fort".
(In the context of musical notation though it is pronounced "for-tay".)
Define "correct."
The vast majority of English speakers will be confused or think you're saying it wrong, and "fort" doesn't align very well with the original French pronunciation anyway. For practical intents and purposes, the two "fortes" have coalesced into a single word in English with two connotation-separated uses. Which is arguably a pretty clean outcome, especially since they had the same Latin root in the first place.
A few dictionaries happen to disagree? Whatever.
I have a shit load of these but luckily the 'being thirsty means you're already too late' never made sense to me.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rehydrating-with-an-appeal-to-nature/
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rehydrating-with-an-appeal-to-nature/
The common wording is "have your cake and eat it too"
Lol at fort/fortay even if correct:
Lebron James is playing golf but it's not his fort.
blame space
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what the fuck is a jackolope
A disease ridden bunny. Looks like it has antlers
Megalosaro
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Not quite. There is rabbits that have tumors, but a jackalope is a mytho logical animal
Yeah but isn't that the inspiration behind the myth? Or is that another misconception?
Megalosaro
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Misconception. It was just some folk lore trolololol
Yes but order is incorrect. You *can* have your cake and eat it too. But you cannot eat your cake and have it, too.
'Have' as in ' I had a good breakfast today' meaning 'ate' and not indicating possession
"You can't have your cake and eat it (too) is a popular English idiomatic proverb or figure of speech. The proverb literally means "you cannot simultaneously retain your cake and eat it". Once the cake is eaten, it is gone. It can be used to say that one cannot or should not have or want more than one deserves or is reasonable, or that one cannot or should not try to have two incompatible things. The proverb's meaning is similar to the phrases "you can't have it both ways" and "you can't have the best of both worlds."
Many people misunderstand the meanings of "have" and "eat" as used here but still understand the proverb in its entirety and intent and use it in this form. Some people feel this form of the proverb is incorrect and illogical and instead prefer "you can't eat your cake and [then still] have it", which is in fact closer to the original form of the proverb (see further explanations below) but uncommon today. Other rare variants use "keep" instead of "have".
Having to choose whether to have or eat your cake illustrates the concept of trade-offs or opportunity cost."
The Albatross
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This was once more true. Even when I was a kid (80s), my grandmother had a German Shepard that slept outside in the dog house except when it got really cold.
It's a weird thing now. This was also the time when neighborhoods has neighborhood dogs that just walked around all day with no supervision.
The Albatross
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That's not true. The Latin neuter of Fortis, strong, is Forte and in Latin that's pronounced​ Four-tay (similar to the sound of the e in Ecce Homine). It would make as much sense to pronounce it that way in English because English is not a gendered language.
Plus there's no body that governs pronounciations in English as in some other languages, so fortay is as correct as fort is. And I'd imagine the majority of English speakers say fortay.
elrechazado
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Wat
SillyEskimo
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When I was a child, I thought 3 Musketeers, Milky Way, and Snickers were all the same candy bar with progressively more toppings.
Sunster
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yep early on i think. so much edge
Shadow Broker
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The Albatross
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I thought that there were two separate words, "Epitome" and "Epitome."
Couple with the guitar maker, this then fucked up my spelling/comprehension of the word Epiphany and Epiphone. For years, I assumed that the guitar maker's name was pronounced like Epiphany, because why not (Epitome... Epiphone), and would regularly misspell the word Epiphany as Epiphone.
For years I also misused the word Aloof. My wife had to beat it into me. I'd always used aloof as sort of meaning like "out to lunch" or "in my own head" or disconnected.
"Hey, did you see the end of that Xavier game last night?"
"Oh, jeez, no I missed it I was aloof and then the game was over."
When in fact, it means cold and distant. There is some cross-over but it definitely has a more negative connotation than I've used it as, which I always meant it as sort of passive or calmly disinterested.
Yeah I didn't know this wasn't a thing until recently. For whatever reason I was taught believing this.
- Epitome: Pronounced like "Epi - Tome," and I thought that it was a word that would be a synonym for "Zenith," sort of like "epicenter" is the central point of something, I thought that the word epi-tome meant like the highest point of something.
- Epitome: Pronounced like how it's pronounced by normal humans (eh-pit-tomy), which means a perfect example of something.
Couple with the guitar maker, this then fucked up my spelling/comprehension of the word Epiphany and Epiphone. For years, I assumed that the guitar maker's name was pronounced like Epiphany, because why not (Epitome... Epiphone), and would regularly misspell the word Epiphany as Epiphone.
For years I also misused the word Aloof. My wife had to beat it into me. I'd always used aloof as sort of meaning like "out to lunch" or "in my own head" or disconnected.
"Hey, did you see the end of that Xavier game last night?"
"Oh, jeez, no I missed it I was aloof and then the game was over."
When in fact, it means cold and distant. There is some cross-over but it definitely has a more negative connotation than I've used it as, which I always meant it as sort of passive or calmly disinterested.
Such a poorly thought out diagram, so common in classrooms even today! Although I'm talking up to my teenage years when I realised it made no sense.
Yeah I didn't know this wasn't a thing until recently. For whatever reason I was taught believing this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shope_papilloma_virus
But apparently not directly related to the myth of the jackalope itself.
Well there are, they are just sociological and cultural not biological.
Muffin1611
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Relating to the tongue and taste misconception, I always thought "spicy" was one of the five basic tastes the tongue can pick up, but it's actually sensed by pain receptors. The fifth basic taste is umami.
True Savior
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Cause of the piss hard on when I started masturbating I thought it would be easier to ejaculate if I held my piss for a while.
The Rain King
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exmachina64
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The American Dream.
That carrots are actually good for rabbits. They aren't. The whole "Rabbits love carrots" thing probably came from Bugs Bunny imitating Clark Gable.
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