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Wait, it spread 2100 years ago across basically the “known world”? Sounds like Silk Road Cockroach might have been a more apt name than German cockroach.
by setopt 2y ago
Wait, it spread 2100 years ago across basically the “known world”? Sounds like Silk Road Cockroach might have been a more apt name than German cockroach.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago"Island southeast Asia" isn't close to the silk road.
- Archelaos 2y agoThat reminds me of the "Spanish flu", which should better be renamed "USA flu" -- until science later identifies another land of origin. But seriously: It is not uncommon that a term starts its career as a description, but petrifies as a label later, when it is too late to change it besides better knowledge. My favourite example is "oxygen", which literally means "acidifier". Lavoisier coined the term, because he wrongly thought that oxygen was part of all acids.
- robotnikman 2y agoAnd this reminds me of Syphilis and it's various names From wikipedia: >The English, the Germans, and the Italians called it "the French disease", while the French referred to it as the "Neapolitan disease". The Dutch called it the "Spanish/Castilian disease".[113] To the Turks it was known as the "Christian disease", whilst in India, the Hindus and Muslims named the disease after each other.[
- p00dles 2y agoCould also be the "iesus Christus" cockroach.
- jamaicanindian 2y ago[dead]
- setopt 2y agoThe Arab expansion was ~1400 years ago, not ~2100 years ago.