"We would all have an issue if the dictionary defined a koala as a species of bear, or a rose as a tulip."
This would be all well and good if a koala were actually a bear. As it stands, however, a koala bear, nomenclature be damned, is actually A FUCKING MARSUPIAL.
So congratulations, asshole--you found someone who cares about the error. Funnily enough, though, I wouldn't have cared at all if you hadn't made such a stupid mistake. I respect your efforts to rectify a long-held and widely published error, but you don't have to be such a dick about it. That's like the first thing they teach you in school--a platypus lays eggs even though it's a mammal (did you know it's venomous, too?), a female hyena has an enormous clitoris (or "mock penis"), and a koala bear is actually a marsupial.
Fuck you, Stephen Hughes.
Wait, it seems that he's saying no one had an issue with the siphon error because a siphon's not sexy, nor animate. Ergo, "We would all have an issue if the dictionary defined a koala as a species of bear, or a rose as a tulip." So he's saying a koala is not a bear, and if you said it was, someone would crush you a lot sooner than it took anyone to find the siphon error. Is this right?
ReplyDeleteSo Wikipedia gets updated and corrected literally every second, making it the best source of accurate information on the planet. But the OED gets updated once every 100 years, by one guy, Stephen Hughes? That is WHACK. Irregardless (which is not a word), I have to disagree with your contention, Steve, that Professor Hughes is erroneous in structuring his metaphor: he was, in fact, saying exactly what you are saying: that koalas are not bears, but are marsupials. Of course the whole point of this exercise was for you to "fight fire with fire" by calling out Professor Hughes, but you did so in such a whack fashion, I am left with much higher regards for Hughes than I have for you, Mr. Brown Avenue. Plus, I loved his directorial work with the movie Boyz in the Hood.
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ReplyDeleteFunny, I just called someone a dick-tionary yesterday, in a different context. It had something to do with Kevin Bacon and the movie Tremors, which I've seen like 78 times and not by choice. But when I had TV (from 1995-2005)it was on like every day.
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