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Swift knows something (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] christophski@feddit.uk 109 points 10 months ago

The chicken egg came before the chicken, as the thing that laid the chicken egg was not quite a chicken

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 25 points 10 months ago

Correct!

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I had this exact discussion within the last year. The first egg was a chicken egg. Every subsequent egg was a chicken's egg.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Until a chicken lays an egg containing something that is not quite a chicken

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

See, I think of the egg as being possessed by the mother, so it would still be a chicken's egg to me, but it could simultaneously be a "something else" egg.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

It would be a chicken's non-chicken egg

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

Do you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Schroedinger's egg

[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago

That is a linguistical question. What does "chicken" in "chicken egg" mean? What is chicken? What is in the egg or who laid it?

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Is a chicken egg defined as an egg that will grow into a chicken, or as an egg laid by a chicken?

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