For those wondering what "macroevolution" actually is...

[AV1611VET]

OK, I want a list...

Me too.

I want to see if Hebrew is on it.

It seems to me that Hebrew is an academian's second language.

Is it a requirement now for college entry?

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

40,000 sects

Always reminds me of the Emo Philips 'Man on the bridge' joke...

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Sharks are not fish

I was taught that they are cartilaginous fish (elasmobranchs), alongside jawless fish and bony fish (gills & (optional) fins 'n that); ... has that classification changed?

 

[Estrid]

I was taught that they are cartilaginous fish (elasmobranchs), alongside jawless fish and bony fish (gills & (optional) fins 'n that); ... has that classification changed?

That usage, not as far as I know, but it was pointed out in class that " fish"
is a term of convenience. What other word is there that suits
common usage?

They sell clams, crabs, sea cucumbers and, yes, fish at the fish store.
Term of convenience.

Sharks, hagfish, lampreys are so distinct from eachother and from
bony fish as to make for great imprecision calling them fish.

A thin case can be made for calling all vertebrates "fish"
if greater imprecision is desired. It's silly but-
why stop at "fish" I don't know since greater imprecision
is possible by invoking an earlier common ancestor,
some hemichordate or blatherskite or something.

Professor xx was so adamant about precise meanings
when he taught the course, including "sharks are not fish",
I was his student, thought he made sense then and do
now, regardless of such word games as suit persons
of lesser note.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

That usage, not as far as I know, but it was pointed out in class that " fish"
is a term of convenience. What other word is there that suits
common usage?

They sell clams, crabs, sea cucumbers and, yes, fish at the fish store.
Term of convenience.

Sharks, hagfish, lampreys are so distinct from eachother and from
bony fish as to make for great imprecision calling them fish.

A thin case can be made for calling all vertebrates "fish"
if greater imprecision is desired. It's silly but-
why stop at "fish" I don't know since greater imprecision
is possible by invoking an earlier common ancestor,
some hemichordate or blatherskite or something.

Professor xx was so adamant about precise meanings
when he taught the course, including "sharks are not fish",
I was his student, thought he made sense then and do
now, regardless of such word games as suit lesser persons.

Sure, 'fish' doesn't seem to be a technical/taxonomic term, but a way of conveniently grouping aquatic creatures in a Wittgensteinian sense - sharing a family of characteristics.

 

[Estrid]

Sure, 'fish' doesn't seem to be a technical/taxonomic term, but a way of conveniently grouping aquatic creatures in a Wittgensteinian sense - sharing a family of characteristics.

No fair, I needed a thousand words to say that!

 

[AV1611VET]

No fair, I needed a thousand words to say that!

Here you go:

As they say in Hong Kong: Yī zhāng túpiàn shèngguò qiānyán wàn yǔ.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Here you go:

As they say in Hong Kong: Yī zhāng túpiàn shèngguò qiānyán wàn yǔ.

There goes another irony meter. A person lied to make that pin. Amazing.

 

[AV1611VET]

There goes another irony meter. A person lied to make that pin. Amazing.

Huh?

 

[Subduction Zone]

Huh?

You seem to have forgotten that evolution is the "truth".

 

[Bradskii]

Here you go:

As they say in Hong Kong: Yī zhāng túpiàn shèngguò qiānyán wàn yǔ.

I don't think they do. I believe that's Mandarin. They speak Cantonese in HK.

 

[Ponderous Curmudgeon]

I don't think they do. I believe that's Mandarin. They speak Cantonese in HK.

BTW how many of your attempted learnings were other languages common in the UK?

 

[Estrid]

I don't think they do. I believe that's Mandarin. They speak Cantonese in HK.

More and more they are trying to force Mandatin in.

 

[Ponderous Curmudgeon]

More and more they are trying to force Mandatin in.

Imperialists

 

[Bradskii]

BTW how many of your attempted learnings were other languages common in the UK?

I struggle with English most of the time. But I can count, order a beer and insult your mother in Cantonese.

Chinese doesn't aspirate, which is hard for a westerner to do. So at the end of a word like 'book' we'll relax the tongue and there's a release of air. It sounds more like 'bookuh'. Whereas a Cantonese speaker stops the work at the k. Consequently, I found that Cantonese speakers would find it difficult to differentiate between words like fourteen and forty (especially said with a Welsh accent).

I worked there for a couple of years in an engineering company. And shortly after starting I was organising a relatively large meeting so I asked one of the local draughtsmen to print out 18 copies each of a couple of large drawings. Yeah, we ended up with 160 prints. Took the poor guy all day. So I thought I better learn to count at least.

 

[AV1611VET]

I struggle with English most of the time. But I can count, order a beer and insult your mother in Cantonese.

Chinese doesn't aspirate, which is hard for a westerner to do. So at the end of a word like 'book' we'll relax the tongue and there's a release of air. It sounds more like 'bookuh'. Whereas a Cantonese speaker stops the work at the k. Consequently, I found that Cantonese speakers would find it difficult to differentiate between words like fourteen and forty (especially said with a Welsh accent).

I worked there for a couple of years in an engineering company. And shortly after starting I was organising a relatively large meeting so I asked one of the local draughtsmen to print out 18 copies each of a couple of large drawings. Yeah, we ended up with 160 prints. Took the poor guy all day. So I thought I better learn to count at least.

All because of sin.

Genesis 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

 

[Ponderous Curmudgeon]

Maybe that is why your arguments make no sense. What did you do to get cast out of God"s set of intelligible languages?

 

[Estrid]

I struggle with English most of the time. But I can count, order a beer and insult your mother in Cantonese.

Chinese doesn't aspirate, which is hard for a westerner to do. So at the end of a word like 'book' we'll relax the tongue and there's a release of air. It sounds more like 'bookuh'. Whereas a Cantonese speaker stops the work at the k. Consequently, I found that Cantonese speakers would find it difficult to differentiate between words like fourteen and forty (especially said with a Welsh accent).

I worked there for a couple of years in an engineering company. And shortly after starting I was organising a relatively large meeting so I asked one of the local draughtsmen to print out 18 copies each of a couple of large drawings. Yeah, we ended up with 160 prints. Took the poor guy all day. So I thought I better learn to count at least.

Eze for even ghosts, use your fingers

 

[Estrid]

But all this latter talk is OT the which of why being
the topic is about macroevolution.
I've figured it out.

Macroevolution is when you think a cow is a fish.

 

[Subduction Zone]

All because of sin.

Genesis 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Nope, nothing to do with things that we know that did not happen. How languages evolve is well understood too.