• possibly a cat@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    The mountains aren’t older than dinosaurs. They are older than bones.

    TIL dinosaurs didn’t have bones.

      • Poiar@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        This is not the poster is pointing out.

        It’s basically two booleans that don’t go together

        Is the mountains older than the dinosaurs = false

        Is the mountains older than bones = true

        They should both be true, but the writer had the first be false, hence leading to all dinosaurs being boneless. I guess it’s a colloquialism in the English language, otherwise all y’all wouldn’t had downvote the poster for being pedantic

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      11 months ago

      Dang I didn’t even notice that logical inconsistency until you pointed it out. It should say “The mountains aren’t just older than dinosaurs.”

      Of course you’re getting downvoted to hell because everyone either didn’t slow down to read it more carefully or can’t understand sarcasm.

      • possibly a cat@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        Hehe. I was being cheeky and expected a few downvotes.

        I don’t like it when understandable-but-imperfect grammar is needlessly harped on about either, but I thought this “mistake” and its placement in the post was funny so I pointed it out anyway.

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      11 months ago

      They didn’t. The bone like structures inside of dinosaurs are called fossils, and they’re closer to rock than bone