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Swift knows something (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 113 points 10 months ago (22 children)

The chicken/egg problem is really a problem of a too narrow scope.

"What came first the chicken or the egg?"

The answer is obviously the egg as plenty of other species before chickens laid eggs.

The concept of an egg is far older than the concept of the chicken.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 44 points 10 months ago (21 children)

It's implicit that the question is about a chicken egg, specifically.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that if fertilized would hatch into a chicken?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That is a great follow up question, is an egg defined by what ever laid it or by it's contents?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Chicken's egg vs chicken egg

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

Who is possessive in your "chicken's egg"? Whose egg is it? The animal who laid the egg or the animal who lays in the egg?

I am fairly certain that chicken egg is chicken's egg after a couple decade of human being lazy. We love to drop stuff in languages.

So chicken's egg vs chicken's egg.

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