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  • vithigar@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzkingdom come
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    5 months ago

    It’s just interesting that there’s a distinction between botanical and culinary classification. Once you realise that there are two different systems that don’t necessarily need to completely agree then it’s not a big deal.

    …also, what exactly is wrong with taking a bite out of a tomato like an apple? They’re delicious.



  • vithigar@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.ml6÷2(1+2)
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    2 years ago

    What’s especially wild to me is that even the position of “it’s ambiguous” gets almost as much pushback as trying to argue that one of them is universally correct.

    Last time this came up it was my position that it was ambiguous and needed clarification and had someone accuse me of taking a prescriptive stance and imposing rules contrary to how things were actually being done. How asking a person what they mean or seeking clarification could possibly be prescriptive is beyond me.

    Bonus points, the guy telling me I was being prescriptive was arguing vehemently that implicit multiplication having precedence was correct and to do otherwise was wrong, full stop.