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minus-squarechristophskilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up109·3 months agoThe chicken egg came before the chicken, as the thing that laid the chicken egg was not quite a chicken
minus-squareBassTurd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 months agoI had this exact discussion within the last year. The first egg was a chicken egg. Every subsequent egg was a chicken’s egg.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·3 months agoUntil a chicken lays an egg containing something that is not quite a chicken
minus-squareBassTurd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·3 months agoSee, I think of the egg as being possessed by the mother, so it would still be a chicken’s egg to me, but it could simultaneously be a “something else” egg.
minus-squareKecessa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 months agoIt would be a chicken’s non-chicken egg
minus-squareConfused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoDo you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.
minus-squareMindTraveller@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoIs a chicken egg defined as an egg that will grow into a chicken, or as an egg laid by a chicken?
minus-squareTartas1995@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·3 months agoThat is a linguistical question. What does “chicken” in “chicken egg” mean? What is chicken? What is in the egg or who laid it?
minus-squareblaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoIIRC modern chickens have DNA from 3 species of Jungle Fowl, so yes, it was an egg from a not quite chicken fertilized by a Jungle Fowl.
The chicken egg came before the chicken, as the thing that laid the chicken egg was not quite a chicken
Correct!
I had this exact discussion within the last year. The first egg was a chicken egg. Every subsequent egg was a chicken’s egg.
Until a chicken lays an egg containing something that is not quite a chicken
See, I think of the egg as being possessed by the mother, so it would still be a chicken’s egg to me, but it could simultaneously be a “something else” egg.
It would be a chicken’s non-chicken egg
Do you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.
Schroedinger’s egg
Is a chicken egg defined as an egg that will grow into a chicken, or as an egg laid by a chicken?
That is a linguistical question. What does “chicken” in “chicken egg” mean? What is chicken? What is in the egg or who laid it?
IIRC modern chickens have DNA from 3 species of Jungle Fowl, so yes, it was an egg from a not quite chicken fertilized by a Jungle Fowl.