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"While reading a post on hacker news, a Softbank earnings call presentation caused me to google the difference between a unicorn and a Pegasus" is just one of t
by pkilgore 6y ago
"While reading a post on hacker news, a Softbank earnings call presentation caused me to google the difference between a unicorn and a Pegasus" is just one of those sentences that sounds Insane in prior to 2020.
- bentcorner 6y ago| no wings | wings ---------+----------+-------- no horn | horse | pegasus ---------+----------+-------- horn | unicorn | alicorn
- riffraff 6y agoNotice "alicorn" is actually the name of the unicorns' horn, historically. At some point people started using it for winged unicorns, presumably because "Ali" would be Latin for "wings" but this seems a recent development.
- duaoebg 6y agoI wonder if it’s My Little Pony related
- egypturnash 6y agoMLP popularized this usage but it predates that.
- m463 6y agosudo pacman -S ponysay ponythink this is awesome
- BerislavLopac 6y agoI think the one in the first field is known as "pegacorn": http://www.dorktower.com/2018/10/23/my-kingdom-for-a-pegacorn-dork-tower-23-10-18/ http://www.dorktower.com/2018/10/23/my-kingdom-for-a-pegacor...