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Reclaim the Word


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For too long the word "dinosaur" has been used to mean "something old and inferior", and it's time this stopped. Dinosaurs did not die through any design flaw of their own; in fact, they were in their prime when they went extinct, with some of the biggest and most powerful members of their current clades emerging within the last few million years before their demise. (Tyrannosaurus, for instance, may have had the most powerful bite of any creature.) Rather, they were unceremoniously terminated and replaced with inferior creatures.

 

This is the new meaning of "dinosaur" I recommend: "something perfectly serviceable that is nonetheless replaced or followed by a far inferior copy". For example, Windows 7 is a "dinosaur". The first two Shrek movies were "dinosaurs". It just makes more sense.

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I don't really care about the relative quality of the item. "Dinosaur" should mean "could not survive a devastating asteroid impact." Shrek would likely fall within that category. (Crocodiles would not.)

 

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Most powerful bite force?  But can that stop a giant comet in the Yucatan?  I didn't think so.

 

Humans: 1

Dinosaurs: 0

 

Ah, but you bring me to my most important point on dinosaur superiority: dinosaurs didn't cause their mass extinction. Humans sure are causing their own.

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Most powerful bite force?  But can that stop a giant comet in the Yucatan?  I didn't think so.

 

Humans: 1

Dinosaurs: 0

 

Ah, but you bring me to my most important point on dinosaur superiority: dinosaurs didn't cause their mass extinction. Humans sure are causing their own.

 

Right.  That way a giant comet in the Yucatan won't kill us because we'll already be dead!

 

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Dinosaurs: 0

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Jess whenever you change the name of your blog/your username I feel lost as to why I followed this blog and can't figure out who you are, and then I see your testimonials sidebar and/or that you're talking about dinosaurs

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