Just to be that guy, pterodactyls, mosasauruses (plural?), and brontosauruses (I don’t know how to do plural versions of these names) aren’t dinosaurs. They’re pterosaurs, mosasaurs, and a mislabeled different type of dinosaur respectively. It makes sense to include them on the poll because they’re cool, but I have decided to point it out anyway because it bothered me and I can be a problem.
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The poet in me would want to say that language is mainly valuable in-so-far as it is used as a tool to communicate information, so if x, y, z are understood to be dinosaurs by 99% of people but don't meet a scientific version of what a scientist would classify as a "dinosaur" that doesn't mean the language is incorrect, but just that there are multiple understood meanings to the word. :] Just something to muse over. I totally understand though that sometimes scientists can't be poets and must rely on precise technical language tho!
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