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Why you little... (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/funny

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Like many other creatures that dwell in the depths of the sea, assfish are soft and flabby with a light skeleton. This is likely to have resulted from a lack of food and the high pressures which accompany living at such a depth, making it difficult to generate muscle and bone

TIL I am like the creatures dwelling in the depths of the sea, both flabby and low in muscle mass, but not for lack of food...

and onus could either mean "hake, a relative of cod", Hanke says, "or a donkey". Adam Summers, associate director at the Friday Harbor Laboratories at the University of Washington, concurs, saying onus could easily read "as a homonym of the Greek word for ass".

I love how instead of translating it to being like hake they went with anus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I believe when they say "Greek word for ass", they mean ass as in donkey, not anus.

όνος - donkey, ass, burro

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

…right.. that would make sense