cm0002@europe.pub to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 12 hours agoIt's a good thing we named most of the dinosaurs like a hundred years agoeurope.pubimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1462arrow-down16
arrow-up1456arrow-down1imageIt's a good thing we named most of the dinosaurs like a hundred years agoeurope.pubcm0002@europe.pub to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 12 hours agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareLemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoI felt the world begin to dumb everything down when the dinosaur I’d always known as Tyrannosaurus Rex, and even as a tiny child I had no problem pronouncing that, became featured in a popular movie and now everyone abbreviates it to T-Rex.
minus-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoWhy use more syllables when few syllables do trick? It’s not like T-Rex is ever ambiguous.
minus-squareBarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·60 minutes agoExactly. Everybody knows that T.Rex Is the stage name for the legendary Marc Bolan, whose biggest hit was Bang a Gong.
minus-squareKellenved@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoT. Rex is how scientists abbreviate it tho
minus-squareLemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoI was born in 1975. Before the movie Jurassic Park, everyone referred to that dinosaur as “Tyrannosaurus Rex.” Since JP, everyone says “T-Rex.”
I felt the world begin to dumb everything down when the dinosaur I’d always known as Tyrannosaurus Rex, and even as a tiny child I had no problem pronouncing that, became featured in a popular movie and now everyone abbreviates it to T-Rex.
Why use more syllables when few syllables do trick? It’s not like T-Rex is ever ambiguous.
Exactly. Everybody knows that T.Rex Is the stage name for the legendary Marc Bolan, whose biggest hit was Bang a Gong.
T. Rex is how scientists abbreviate it tho
I was born in 1975. Before the movie Jurassic Park, everyone referred to that dinosaur as “Tyrannosaurus Rex.”
Since JP, everyone says “T-Rex.”