Science jargon has always sounded so impressive until I took anatomy.
for example, the big hole in the bottom of your skull (where the spinal chord passes through) is called the “foramen magnum” which is Latin for ‘big hole’.
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Is it jargon or just a different language
I recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?
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What part of deoxyribonucleic acid do you not understand?
Dungeons nucleic Dragons
This new craze they call "rock nucleic roll" is driving the country's youth wild!
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“God safe us” - irony right there especially when critical of someone else’s use of an acronym perhaps one’s own grasp of the English language should be a little better!!!
God save us ….
The amount of grammatical mistakes in your own comment is pretty ironic as well.
Muphry's Law strikes again.
Excuse me, it's Muphry's Theory. It hasn't been proven enough to be a scientific law.
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Desoxyribose & Acid
Name a more iconic duo, I'm waiting
deoxyribose & acid
In German it's "Desoxyribonukleinsäure". I never realized English doesn't have the "s"
It gets worse. Desoxyephedrine and deoxyephedrine are two completely different substances. Ones methamphetamine and the other is natural and as drugs they act very differently.
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This post permanently lowered my IQ
DNA is AND when you reverse it.
And?
Yes.
Wait, I think we're improvising wrong.
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"Desoxyriboandnukleicacid"
I'm impressed by how much Cunningham's Law is in the comments. I can't tell if they don't get the joke, or if the joke is too deep and I'm the one missing it.
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D 'n A
I think i'm having a stroke, because I have no fucking idea what's going on here
I accidentally uploaded the wrong post and then replaced it within a few seconds. Sometimes that doesn't always federate right, so if you're seeing one about a funny guy on LinkedIn and not this, that could explain it:
