castiellon@lemmy.zip to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 17 hours agoWhat is the most confusing misnomer you've seen?lemmy.mlexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up180arrow-down1external-linkWhat is the most confusing misnomer you've seen?lemmy.mlcastiellon@lemmy.zip to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 17 hours agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
Mine is “guinea pig” originating in andes (not guinea) and them being not-a-pig type, whole thing is just wrong.
minus-squareQuilotoa@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down3·17 hours agoPrimodial soup. It was perfectly sterile. No organic matter in it. (didn’t exist yet.) Today’s oceans are wet cement in comparison.
minus-squaredavel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-210 hours agoThe word primordial doesn’t imply anything living. It means something that came before something else. It’s the soup of organic compounds from which life originally formed.
Primodial soup. It was perfectly sterile. No organic matter in it. (didn’t exist yet.) Today’s oceans are wet cement in comparison.
The word primordial doesn’t imply anything living. It means something that came before something else. It’s the soup of organic compounds from which life originally formed.