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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
 
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[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 210 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Should we point out that in this context it's 'save', not 'safe'? If you're going to correct someone's spelling, make sure your own is impeccable.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 204 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Nah. It's engagement bait, plane and simple

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

It works too well… plain and simple.

That missing period had better also have been intentional.

[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But how can you be sertain?

[–] Socket462@feddit.it 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That's the neet part. You can't

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[–] flyingchaucer@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 166 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Deoxyribonucleic acid, for anyone wondering

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 186 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Deoxyribo&ucleic acid, for anyone sophisticated

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Deoxyriboanducleic acid, according to Shadow Radar.

[–] lakemalcom10@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well... deoxyribo and acid. The whole "n" is gone

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[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 20 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Dicks n ass, for anyone wondering. It’s the male version of tna.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 107 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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’.

[–] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it jargon or just a different language

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Scientists use one to pretend the other

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[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 73 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What part of deoxyribonucleic acid do you not understand?

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 76 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] debil@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

This new craze they call "rock nucleic roll" is driving the country's youth wild!

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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 72 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] peanutyam@lemmy.world 67 points 10 months ago (6 children)

“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 ….

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (15 children)

The amount of grammatical mistakes in your own comment is pretty ironic as well.

Muphry's Law strikes again.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 17 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Excuse me, it's Muphry's Theory. It hasn't been proven enough to be a scientific law.

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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 64 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Desoxyribose & Acid

Name a more iconic duo, I'm waiting

[–] Shou@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

In German it's "Desoxyribonukleinsäure". I never realized English doesn't have the "s"

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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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[–] Rato@lemmy.world 63 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 62 points 10 months ago

This post permanently lowered my IQ

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 59 points 10 months ago (2 children)

DNA is AND when you reverse it.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] credo@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Wait, I think we're improvising wrong.

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[–] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it's Dinosaurs, Nucleaics & Acid.

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nucleic isn't a thing huh ? Can we send these people to a Gulag

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Douglas Adams' middle name was "Noel", not "and".

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 21 points 10 months ago

God safe us indeed

[–] DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

"Desoxyriboandnukleicacid"

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My favorite part of the atom is the &uclease

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[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] TheV2@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

(But it'd be bad satire to repeat the joke)

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[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago
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