In light of the above, then, I hereby propose that squirrels get renamed to “treegulls.”
The name "seagull" implies the existence of landgulls, airgulls, and firegulls.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Tattorack@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s all fun and games until the firegull nation attacks.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
My brother and I discovered the new Gulliver…
three@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
If there are armadillos, where are the legadillos?
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
And what about the Dillos who don’t want to be armed?
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
unarmadillos?
moakley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Given how much cuter a goldfish is than a silverfish, whatever a bronzefish is must be a absolutely disgusting.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stands to reason, yes. Maybe also navyadillos and airforcadillos.
the_abecedarian@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
also, spacegulls
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
thank you.
Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Attention Bajoran workers…
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen many seagulls in my life.
But I’ve never seen any of the others.
And that’s terrifying. Stay vigilant.
TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I used to study animal management and there was a lecturer who wrote his uni thesis on “seagulls” and any time he heard someone call them seagulls he’d shout down the hallway “They’re herring gulls!”
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Seagulls are not just herring gulls though. The term is used for any gulls people see near the sea. In the UK that’s herring, great black backed & and lesser black backed, black headed, common, and kittiwakes.
ch00f@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A birdwatching friend of mine has decided that if he ever discovers a new species, he’s naming it “seagull” regardless of where he finds it or what it looks like just to pill off all the ornithologists.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Reminds me of a John Hodgman bit - we have ice hockey, field hockey, and air hockey, implying the existence of fire hockey.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
If seagulls fly over the sea, then what flies over the bay?
Bagels.
MSBBritain@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Long ago, the four gulls lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire gulls attacked…
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Bay-gull. Bagel.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bay-hull; loves explosions.
Illegalmexicant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We have Baygulls. They are tasty with cream cheese.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah until one of those airgulls comes and swipes it.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Heartgulls
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
“By your powers combined, I’m Captain Gull!”
AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I am Gull, and by this axe I rule!
Taco2112@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I live in Colorado and there are gulls here, we are far from the sea.
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Most of what we consider “seagulls” dont actually go out to sea. It’s all lies.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
They’re seaadjacentgulls.
Carcel@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
[deleted]dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
So they are lakegulls then.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Water-Gulls. Earth-Gulls. Fire-Gulls. Air-Gulls. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire-Gull Nation attacked.
teft@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when the Avatar kept balance between the Seagulls, Landgulls, Firegulls, and Airgulls. But that all changed when the Firegulls attacked.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Captain Planet Gull: “Give me those chips and I’ll poop on you!”
You: “… don’t you mean ‘or’ you will poop on me, not ‘and’?”
Captain Planet Gull: …
You: …
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You have to go pretty far back (to proto-Celtic, it looks like) to find a linguistic ancestor for the word “gull” that doesn’t just mean “that specific bird.”
But in proto-Celtic, it looks like “weilanna” probably meant “wailer.” As in, “one who wails,” though we don’t know exactly what the suffix “-anna” means. A similar word in that language would’ve been “wailos,” which even though it sounds similar seems to have been unrelated to our modern term “wolf,” as it comes from a different proto-indo-european root.
Anyway, the word “gull” does refer to the sounds that it makes more than anything else. So in figuring out what a landgull, airgull, and firegull might be, we need to find something noisy. Or just something annoying, given the derisive connotation of “wail.”
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Wailos or wailer is wolf, is that because they “wail” (howl?) Or is that just a coincidence?
Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s probably the result of a taboo. It’s why people say “bear” (the brown one) or “medved” (the honey knower) instead of “arth” or “ursus”.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sorry for being unclear–proto-Celtic calls wolves “wailos” for the same reason as they call gulls “weilanna,” because of the noise, yes. The coincidence is that the modern word “wolf” sounds like the proto-Celtic word “wailos.”
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s Called seagull
It flies
With that logic, firegull are penguins.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That logic is incredible! But of course!
huxley75@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget bay-gulls. They love fish, especially smoked salmon
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I love baygulls.
Codpiece@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Surely they’re airgulls as they don’t live in the sea?
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
seagull
looks inside
landgull
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I never knew that. I thought it went from beagle to seagull and then on to eagle…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget heartgulls. Everyone always forgets heart.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dumpster chickens
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s if it’s specifying aquatic vs other elemental gulls. Perhaps it’s specifying what type of body of water it’s from instead. That’d imply oceangulls, rivergulls, bagels, pondgulls, lakegulls, etc
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL!!!
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think a “landgull” would just be a pigeon
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah, that’s an airgull. A landgull would be a chicken.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Nah, that’s a farmgull. A landfill would be an ostrich