• stephen01king@piefed.zip
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    19 hours ago

    But is it a chicken egg because it hatches into a chicken or because it is laid by a chicken?

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        7 hours ago

        “chicken’s egg” is the owner of the egg the chicken inside it, or the one who laid it?
        Likewise it’s not clear that “chicken egg” refers to the creator of the egg or the inhabitant of it.

        Pretending for the sake of semantic argument that any of these scenarios were possible:
        If an alligator laid an egg and a chicken came out, was that a chicken egg?
        If a chicken laid an egg and an alligator came out, was that a chicken egg?

        But now consider, you know what I mean by the following phrase:
        “An alligator laid a chicken egg, and an alligator hatched out of it”