Hemingways_Shotgun to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • edit-218 hours agoWe 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-square29fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1110arrow-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 to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • edit-218 hours agomessage-square29fedilinkfile-text
For example, why do we say “Your pupils are dilated”. They aren’t. It’s the iris aperture that is dilated.
minus-squareAFK BRB ChocolatelinkEnglish1•15 hours agoExcept don’t we usually mean the sphincter itself when we say asshole?
minus-squareAFK BRB ChocolatelinkEnglish2•13 hours agoI didn’t think so? When I say Iris, I mean the colored ring. When I say pupil, I mean the hole. When I say asshole, I mean the ring, not the hole. I can’t remember ever wanting to refer to the actual hole. Maybe “gape?”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•6 hours agoWhen I say asshole I usually mean someone with whom I’m currently dissatisfied
Except don’t we usually mean the sphincter itself when we say asshole?
Isn’t that the same as iris and pupil?
I didn’t think so? When I say Iris, I mean the colored ring. When I say pupil, I mean the hole. When I say asshole, I mean the ring, not the hole. I can’t remember ever wanting to refer to the actual hole. Maybe “gape?”
When I say asshole I usually mean someone with whom I’m currently dissatisfied