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I shall learn from this post how to disagree respectfully on the internet. Hats off.
by cocomutator 5y ago
I shall learn from this post how to disagree respectfully on the internet. Hats off.
- wrycoder 5y agoThere must be a Latin name for “plant-like” that could have been used. Maybe “anomalous herbiform entity”. But, I’m poor at crosswords.
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- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoAnd then there are those of us who just prefer plain English. Using Latin in a publication aimed at laypeople sounds pretentious.
- embedded_hiker 5y agoThis reminds me of when I heard the phrase "lenticular cloud". I looked it up, hoping to learn something about how these clouds are formed, etc. It simply means "shaped like a lentil".
- Hallucinaut 5y agoPerhaps this is autocorrect gone awry, but it has nothing to do with lentils. Not a meteorologist, but from all I understand it means lens-shaped, and to me that immediately gives a strong clue as to how they form since lenses have focal points and can, to some degree, have shapes expressed as formulae about some origin. Which to me is suggestive of the relation to the mountains around which they form.
- ncmncm 5y ago"Lentil" is itself a reference to its lens-like shape, same as the cloud. "Lenticular" has nothing in it suggestive of legumes.
- wrycoder 5y agoYeah! I submitted this awhile back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30117500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30117500