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Mitosis (gregtech.eu)

submitted 3 weeks ago by lena@gregtech.eu to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What's the brand on the first phone? Someone scribbled over it so now the logo is completely unrecognisable to me

[-] narwhal@mander.xyz 10 points 3 weeks ago

looks like an orange

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

huh i thought it might be a banana

[-] Winterfrost@lemm.ee 15 points 3 weeks ago

Literally!!

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 3 weeks ago

My head literally exploded with that meme!

[-] Winterfrost@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

Quite literally.

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 6 points 3 weeks ago

iTosis

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Waiting for RedMi's version then.

[-] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

While some phones went through meiosis

[+] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works -18 points 3 weeks ago

Okay I'll be that guy. Not literally.

It's still a funny visual joke, and loses nothing by being simply

iPhone went through mitosis

Or if you're even more pedantic than I,

iPhone camera went through mitosis

Are there many more urgent problems in the world than proliferation of misused "literally"s?

Absolutely. And I do my tiny part. But focusing for a moment on something small like this helps me step away from the abyss.

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 19 points 3 weeks ago

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/literally

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually:

I literally died when she walked out on stage in that costume.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

But not metaphorically, which is what we're seeing here, in this visual pun.

[-] Michal@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

If the words meaning has changed, what's to new word to use when we mean literally (in its original meaning)?

[-] psud@aussie.zone -1 points 3 weeks ago

Literally literally

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works -2 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, and with that definition it becomes a contronym. As in a contradiction. As in the word no longer peforms the function it once did. And before you say 'bUt LaNgUaGeS sHiFt OvEr TiMe' - the word virtually literally peforms the same function as the new definition.

Who am I kidding, discussing the importance of articulation to people who never learned the definitions of the words they use has always been a losing battle. Your knowledge will always be less valuable to them than their ignorance.

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I just gave you the definition, from the dictionary. Maybe you are the one that never learned the definitions of the words they use.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That definition doesn't fit this example either. If it did, we'd end up with 2 iPhones.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Your knowledge will always be less valuable than their ignorance.

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

You're literally killing op, stop! Leave op alone!

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I love OP and literally updooted their meme.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Now your thoughts on the capitalization of I in iPhone at the beginning of the sentence

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well, I have to say I think it's okay because generally we do capitalize the first letter of a sentence. But my phone of course autocorrected it. And since it's a name, we should defer to the preference of the person or thing being named. If I said "e e cummings was a poet perhaps best known for his rejection of capitalisation and punctuation," it would be stupid and perhaps rude of me to type it as "E. E. Cummings," and yet that's how he appears in Wikipedia. So I guess I come down on the side of, "I'll allow it."