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Sorry I did exclude those fruits which people typically mistake as vegetables like tomatoes. Otherwise the list would have been too long.
by pattle 3y ago
Sorry I did exclude those fruits which people typically mistake as vegetables like tomatoes. Otherwise the list would have been too long.
- School-Cotton 3y agoIt is not a “mistake”, it’s just two separate meanings of the word fruit. I find it annoying that some technical field assigned a meaning to a term that had already in wide use for hundreds of years and then people started claiming that people using it in the original way are “wrong”.
- NeoTar 3y agoIt’s surprisingly common. A more extreme version is what I call the Stonehenge cycle: - humanity names something, e.g. Stonehenge, - humanity finds other, somewhat similar things, and names them similarly, e.g. Woodhenge, Seahenge, - people studying the field realise that the term has become so broad as to lose any meaning, and attempt to create a tighter definition of what a thing is - e.g. a ‘henge’ is ‘ a roughly circular or oval-shaped bank with an internal ditch surrounding a central flat area’ - the original thing no longer qualifies under the new definition, e.g. Stonehenge is not a ‘henge’.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoIt's weird for olives to be excluded though. They've never been considered "vegetables" as opposed to "fruits".