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[โ€“] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I was going to disagree with you based on etymological pedantry, but it turns out the Old English "mete" just means "food" so now I have to agree with you based on etymological pedantry.

[โ€“] Tweak@feddit.uk 5 points 12 hours ago

Fuck's sake, 2nd time that's happened to me in this thread. I thought steak should just be beef, but it turns out:

The word steak was written steke in Middle English, and comes from the mid-15th century Scandinavian word steik, related to the Old Norse steikja 'to roast on a stake', and so is related to the word stick or stake.

I don't even want to look up bacon now, I need to believe that it should just be pig.

[โ€“] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just like how the rules forbidding plant milk to be called milk make no sense. Plant milk has existed for many centuries.

[โ€“] Tweak@feddit.uk 2 points 11 hours ago

"Plant milk" could be a bit like "berry" though, in that as we have consolidated and rationalised our definitions it falls out of it. When we tried to come up with a clear idea of what a "berry" is we ended up excluding almost everything that has "berry" in the name. Like how tomatoes are fruits by the technical definition of a fruit.

Except for the fact that the reason plant milk is being excluded is entirely commercial lobbying, rather than a scientific or rational definition.

[โ€“] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Is this like algebra where the order of operations matters?

[โ€“] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Based (dis)agreement