Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agoWe tend to describe the pupil as though it's its own actual separate part of the eye. It's almost strange to think about the fact that in reality it's just a hole in the Iris and not a "thing" at all.message-squaremessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1115arrow-down1message-squareWe tend to describe the pupil as though it's its own actual separate part of the eye. It's almost strange to think about the fact that in reality it's just a hole in the Iris and not a "thing" at all.Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square31fedilinkfile-text
For example, why do we say “Your pupils are dilated”. They aren’t. It’s the iris aperture that is dilated.
minus-squareMajorllama@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up46arrow-down1·1 day agoI mean we have lots of words for varying degrees and styles of “nothing”. A chasm is the empty space between two chunks of the earths crust. A void is just an empty space well… Void of all things. An interval is just the time between two events. Technically it’s nothing. Still a good shower thought. There aren’t a ton of words dedicated to the same phenomenon, but we have a handful.
minus-squareAFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·22 hours agoPretty good number of them if you count things like intermission. Slit, slot, crack, aperture, interlude, gap, breach, etc. Others, too.
minus-squareMajorllama@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 hours agoWhen I said “handful” I more so meant in all of language yeah there are probably hundreds of words for the empty space between certain things, but in all of human language that’s probably a pretty small number.
I mean we have lots of words for varying degrees and styles of “nothing”.
A chasm is the empty space between two chunks of the earths crust.
A void is just an empty space well… Void of all things.
An interval is just the time between two events. Technically it’s nothing.
Still a good shower thought. There aren’t a ton of words dedicated to the same phenomenon, but we have a handful.
Well, well, well, indeed.
Also just
“Space” as a place to go
Good ol fashion space.
Pretty good number of them if you count things like intermission. Slit, slot, crack, aperture, interlude, gap, breach, etc. Others, too.
When I said “handful” I more so meant in all of language yeah there are probably hundreds of words for the empty space between certain things, but in all of human language that’s probably a pretty small number.