Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 个月前We 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-square32fedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1125arrow-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 个月前message-square32fedilinkfile-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-up51arrow-down1·1 个月前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.
minus-squareAFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 个月前Pretty good number of them if you count things like intermission. Slit, slot, crack, aperture, interlude, gap, breach, etc. Others, too.
minus-squareMajorllama@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 个月前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.
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.
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.
Also just
“Space” as a place to go
Good ol fashion space.
Well, well, well, indeed.