Fruit
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linguistic rules override physics pedantry.
Idk why, maybe because I'm a scientist, but this speaks to something in my soul
I thought briefly about editing that to say, "in this context", but I thought it might be redundant.
It's like the whole fruit/vegetable debate, and there not really being a scientific category of "vegetables" that aligns with the common usage. However, in common usage, the loose, lay definition of "vegetable" is far more useful than the scientific, taxonomical one.
Context is king.
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But aren't oranges actually green?
*Not a joke, btw. Oranges grown in tropical places are green.
It might depend on the variety, there are many, many kinds of oranges.
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Nah that's apples
That tracks. Steve Jobs was known for his enjoyment of fruit, to a potentially problematic degree.
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Yellow squash
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A chart made by someone that's never eaten a whole bag of beet chips in one sitting, I see.
I think you misunderstand. If you've eaten a whole bag of beet chips you should see the doctor.
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If their piss is red they need to go to the doctor as per this shart
I have tetrachromacy and piss in colors that would drive most into madness.
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And why orange haired people still have red hair.
Sometimes I learn something that makes me think, how the hell had I not figured that out sometime in the past half-century.
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I have tetrachromacy and piss in colors that would drive most into madness.
Look out, it's the mad pisser!!!
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Apparently oranges and other citrus fruit (and others, like bananas) are "degreened" with ethylene.
Here's a video with bananas. https://youtu.be/jzjBAAv9nxc
I can also say that bananas are quite yellow when ripe, without additives. Have had banana trees in 2 different houses, of 2 different banana varieties.
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Engagement bait.
right on. this tweet is like saying "there's not a single country in africa that starts with the letter K." there obviously is, but it's targeting people who are knowledgable enough to know the answer but not intelligent enough to understand the point of the tweet.
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Dear Mr Encyclopedia, when were raspberries discovered? Wasn't Avalon "the isle of apples?" When did Christian bibles start describing the forbidden fruit as "apples?" Were they not red apples?
What color did they call ripe ribe avu-crispa (a gooseberry)?
The Biblical fruit is just given as "pษrรฎ" and could be any fruit. Avalon is from the Welsh aflonydd, "peaceful", so named because it was King Arthur's vacation spot. Raspberries have not yet been discovered, at time of writing.
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Engagement bait.
Iโm already married.
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But aren't oranges actually green?
*Not a joke, btw. Oranges grown in tropical places are green.
Even if they were, they're not called greens.
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Even if those leaves were a fruit, they're not called greens. Some kinds of leaves are called that as a general term, but not the ones in the picture. He's wrong on so many levels!
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A fact that I hadn't realized. TIL.
Prior to the fruit it was just considered a shade of red
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I thought briefly about editing that to say, "in this context", but I thought it might be redundant.
It's like the whole fruit/vegetable debate, and there not really being a scientific category of "vegetables" that aligns with the common usage. However, in common usage, the loose, lay definition of "vegetable" is far more useful than the scientific, taxonomical one.
Context is king.
Yeah. I've had this discussing with others in different forms, where they are arguing that words have specific definitions..
I would go even further.. My take is that what you said is right, but also, what a given context (like "cooking") is can be very different for different people.. So even in situations where three is really only one meaning for a word (rare, but maybe "broccoli" is an example), the word is understood differently by different people because it has different connotations attached for everyone (e.g. "I love/hate it", "my grandparent used to cook it badly").
Word definitions are like the lowest common denominator consensus version of those individual meaning, but they are changing slightly all the time as people change. Dictionaries are just documenting that evolution, but are constantly playing catch-up.
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That tracks. Steve Jobs was known for his enjoyment of fruit, to a potentially problematic degree.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Dunno who that is but Tim Apple invented the computer and his ancestors invented the apple (in 196 AD) and just for the record if you think enjoying fruit is problematic youโre probably homophobic or something ยฏ\(ใ)/ยฏ iunno go away
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Sometimes I learn something that makes me think, how the hell had I not figured that out sometime in the past half-century.
For some reason, french has a specific term for orange/red hair that's quite old. So we don't have red haired people. I don't know if other languages share this.
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I can also say that bananas are quite yellow when ripe, without additives. Have had banana trees in 2 different houses, of 2 different banana varieties.
I think I unintentionally blurred together two separate things.
Citrus can be ripe and still be coloured green. Ethylene is used to make them orange, as they look more appealing to buyers that way.
Green bananas on the other hand are just not ripe. Ethylene is still used here, but to "kickoff" the fruit's ripening process - in just a few days it becomes yellow and ripe.
There's many things that release ethylene naturally when ripening, like tomatoes, apple, kiwi, ... These need to be kept away from other sensitive produce (lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, ...) as they'll start looking "nasty" and lower their shelf life.
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Even if those leaves were a fruit, they're not called greens. Some kinds of leaves are called that as a general term, but not the ones in the picture. He's wrong on so many levels!
Is that what he was saying? That's what I was confused about. Those leaves are not greens. They are green, but still everything you said.
