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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
 
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[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 210 points 1 year 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 202 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nah. It's engagement bait, plane and simple

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

It works too well… plain and simple.

That missing period had better also have been intentional.

[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But how can you be sertain?

[–] Socket462@feddit.it 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's the neet part. You can't

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[–] flyingchaucer@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 167 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Deoxyribonucleic acid, for anyone wondering

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 188 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Deoxyribo&ucleic acid, for anyone sophisticated

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Deoxyriboanducleic acid, according to Shadow Radar.

[–] lakemalcom10@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it jargon or just a different language

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

Scientists use one to pretend the other

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[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 12 points 1 year 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 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What part of deoxyribonucleic acid do you not understand?

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] debil@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] Rato@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] peanutyam@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Desoxyribose & Acid

Name a more iconic duo, I'm waiting

[–] Shou@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 year ago

This post permanently lowered my IQ

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

DNA is AND when you reverse it.

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

Wait, I think we're improvising wrong.

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[–] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it's Dinosaurs, Nucleaics & Acid.

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 21 points 1 year ago

God safe us indeed

[–] DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

"Desoxyriboandnukleicacid"

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

My favorite part of the atom is the &uclease

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[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year 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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[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[–] TheV2@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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