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What a strange thing to say on a post about researchers working to dispel ignorance.

• soheil 4y ago
  For millennia people thought fish swam upstream until literally today. If that’s not sheer ignorance I don’t know what is.
  • grkvlt 4y ago
    > until literally today you know this research was published in 2006, and is based on earlier work (from the citations you can see papers from the early 1970s onwards) which suggests the ignorance might be more localised ;)
    • Maursault 4y ago
      I believe GP meant 'figuratively' (a common modern use of 'literally,' disconcertingly) and could also be mixing unrelated idioms such as swim like a fish and swimming upstream, though it is commonly known salmon swim upstream, I'm not sure this fluid dynamics epiphany changes anything there. If it could technically be incorrect to say salmon swim upstream, how should it be phrased correctly? Salmon get sucked upstream?