• lugal@sopuli.xyz
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    22 days ago

    That’s because the scientific definition of berries has little in common with the colloquial one. That doesn’t make either wrong, they are just used in different contexts

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        22 days ago

        The thing is, there is for sure some Latin technical term that you can use. And it’s still close enough to berries to call them that.

        • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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          22 days ago

          Oh probably, but I don’t speak latin. Most people don’t speak latin; there’s like 1000 people in the world maximum who could hold a conversation in latin.

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            20 days ago

            I love it.

            I know you didn’t mean it, but this has the, “Do I LOOK like I speak Latin?” Energy and as a American, I’m all about that.

            • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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              20 days ago

              Lucky, I mean it is exactly the opposite way! Teach me some local languages, like Cree or Dene, maybe something Inuk.

              I guess I am telling people to speak English though, aren’t I? Well it’s good to keep updated on the colonizer tongue I suppose.

              Now get off my native grass lawn!