Do you secrete milk from mammary glands?
Bc that’s like legit the only requirement. We set the bar low. Not like those elitist avians.
Let’s compromise and call them both fish.
The pope approves
Everything is a fish. Why not?
Counterpoint: there’s no such thing as a ghoti
Reminder that according to the actual rules of English orthography, “ghoti” can never be pronounced as “fish”, because said rules feature “position within a word/syllable” very prominently. An onset g simply can’t be pronounced the same way as a final gh, and in fact, any “gh” followed immediately by a vowel must be pronounced with the hard /g/ sound. “ti” is only ever allowed to fricitize to the “sh” sound if it’s followed by another vowel. Ghoti can only be pronounced the same as “goatee”, and English speakers know this intuitively even if they can’t articulate why they know this, the same as we internalize hundreds of other language rules without knowing that we know them.
Reminder you cannot take a prescriptive approach to English, it can only be viewed descriptively.
There are is no ‘correct’ way to do anything beyond what its speakers say at the time of observation.
This IS the descriptive approach. Trying to wrangle fish out of ghoti is simply not how people read.
Pescatarians had it right
Is there anyone arguing against dinosaurs being birds anymore? This was still a relatively new thought to the general public when Jurassic Park came out, but IIRC, it was pretty well accepted among paleontologists even back then. More people try to badly argue that Pluto is a planet than try to say dinosaurs aren’t birds.
I feel like revoking Pluto’s planet status was just uncalled for. Like, I doubt anyone consulted Pluto about its feelings on the matter. If anything we should’ve gotten it right the first time, instead of demoting the poor thing. Sorry, Pluto.
This is the other way around. There are some who want to push back the definition of “bird” to include more dinosaurs via earlier divergence. There are even a few that argue that certain conventially non-avian dinosaurs are actually from the agreed bird lineage but converged back on a bipedal dinosaur shape.
Is it not the other way around? Birds are dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs are birds.
I believe that, nowadays, it is generally accepted that dinosaurs, crocodilians and birds are all “archosaurs”. In a similar way to how Australopithecus, Humans and Chimpanzees are all “hominids”.
All the remaining dinosaurs are birds though…
You do see it sometimes, where people complain that dinosaurs are no longer fearsome giant lizards because we found out that they might have feathers and aren’t SUV height, on social media and places.
It generally becomes obvious that they have never met a goose, chicken, or been at risk of swooping before.
Aww, poor soyjak, are you upset nature doesn’t adhere to your imaginary grouping made up before you had as much knowledge?
stings a bear to death
