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06-13-2016, 04:17 PM
What have you or anyone else or both heard is not what its name implies? Three examples I know are a football is not a foot, a computer virus is not a computer and a strawberry is neither a berry nor a straw.
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06-13-2016, 04:45 PM
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06-13-2016, 04:52 PM
super mario maker...

why make another mario? someone already made one.
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06-13-2016, 04:54 PM (This post was last modified: 06-13-2016, 04:54 PM by Koh.)
A modern feminist. Some are males...

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06-13-2016, 08:10 PM (This post was last modified: 06-13-2016, 08:10 PM by Hiynastrike.)
What are Yoshies? Why would an entire species have the name of a Asian person?



Like you don't see a new species of rodent called Gregs
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06-13-2016, 08:42 PM
(06-13-2016, 08:10 PM)Hiynastrike Wrote: What are Yoshies? Why would an entire species have the name of a Asian person?



Like you don't see a new species of rodent called Gregs


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_or...ous_people
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06-13-2016, 10:42 PM
jellyfish is neither made of jelly nor is it a fish (technically...)

The bird of paradise flower is obviously not a bird.

Black-eyed suzans do not have a literal black eye, and generally speaking, don't resemble any women by the name "Susan".

Those are just a few that come to mind
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06-14-2016, 12:00 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, may I provide for your delectation: the mountain chicken!
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06-14-2016, 12:54 AM
I'm disappointed every time Steam fails to emit actual steam from my PC Sad
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06-14-2016, 01:00 AM
Hungary is in fact not a feeling but a country. Turkey isn't actually a country made of North American bird.
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06-14-2016, 01:28 AM (This post was last modified: 06-14-2016, 01:29 AM by miyabi95_.)
the red panda is in fact not related to the typical giant panda. the flying fox isn't really a fox, and a hummingbird doesn't hum itself, but you have to be up super close to hear the buzzing sound emitted by its wings.

safe to say that scientists and zoologists are the best at coming up with these contradictory names.
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06-14-2016, 01:44 AM
so "tele" means to move something, so if Televisions moves visions to places and Teleports are a port that moves things. What the frick is a telephone?
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06-14-2016, 02:52 AM (This post was last modified: 06-14-2016, 07:40 AM by puggsoy.)
A telephone is a thing that "moves" phonemes, I assume.
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06-14-2016, 07:31 AM
Penguin is neither a pen nor a guin.
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06-14-2016, 10:06 AM (This post was last modified: 06-14-2016, 10:14 AM by Kosheh.)
(06-13-2016, 04:54 PM)Koh Wrote: A modern feminist.  Some are males...

STOP
A vagina isn't required attire in order to desire/want equality between the sexes in our society.
I know who you're trying to put on blast here (radical feminists) but your statement kinda makes you look like an asshole right now, lmao




I think my favorite example is "hot dog" it's not really hot, nor is it an actual dog. O_O
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