Usually I tell people I study Kuiper Belt Objects, because that name is more easily recognized by the general public. But today I have learned that I can make Those People cringe just by saying the more proper name.
@sundogplanets Usually I tell people I study the Middle East, because that name is more easily recognized by the general public. But today I have learned that I can make Those People cringe just by saying the correct name:
الشرب الاوسط وشمال أفريقيا
ash-Sharq al-awsat wa shamal Ifriqiyya
Calling it already: the submarine suddenly sank because the anti-woke self-defense circuitry decided to self-destruct the vessel as soon as it found out they were going to a trans-Atlantic ship wreckage
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You mean like Pluto? Which we used to call a planet until we learnt more about it but there still some people too stubborn to update their nomenclature? Which scientists have come to understand that continuing to call it a planet would be asinine and ignorant of so much of reality?
Not sure why I felt to need to bring that up, of course you know all that, it couldn't possibly be a reference to something else.
What peeves me is not so much that Pluto is considered a planetoid, but that it was dropped from the curriculum. Instead of doing the actual inclusive act of adding all the other planetoids of our solar system to the exam
@sundogplanets Thing is, I'm no longer allowed to refer to white Transit vans like everyone used to for decades, nor to my little portable radio how we used to refer to them...an entire swathe of my cultural linguistics has been illegalised..
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