cm0002@toast.ooo to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 23 hours agoJust so there's no confusionimagemessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1664arrow-down118
arrow-up1646arrow-down1imageJust so there's no confusioncm0002@toast.ooo to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 23 hours agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoThat depends on semantics. Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that hatches a chicken? The answer to that question changes the answer to the original question
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoWho introduced “chicken egg”? The original question just says egg.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·57 minutes agoI get that that’s the premise of the joke. But that not the premise of the dilemma, which pretty clearly implies it’s a chicken egg. The dilemma would have no meaning of it was “what came first? The chicken or the horseshoe crab egg?”
That depends on semantics.
Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that hatches a chicken?
The answer to that question changes the answer to the original question
Who introduced “chicken egg”? The original question just says egg.
I get that that’s the premise of the joke.
But that not the premise of the dilemma, which pretty clearly implies it’s a chicken egg.
The dilemma would have no meaning of it was “what came first? The chicken or the horseshoe crab egg?”