• @[email protected]
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    1093 months ago

    The chicken egg came before the chicken, as the thing that laid the chicken egg was not quite a chicken

    • @BassTurd
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      133 months ago

      I had this exact discussion within the last year. The first egg was a chicken egg. Every subsequent egg was a chicken’s egg.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        243 months ago

        Until a chicken lays an egg containing something that is not quite a chicken

        • @BassTurd
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          73 months ago

          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.

    • @[email protected]
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      83 months ago

      That is a linguistical question. What does “chicken” in “chicken egg” mean? What is chicken? What is in the egg or who laid it?