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arrow-up172arrow-down1external-linkTIL In the 1920s Russian scientist Ilya Ivanov tried to create a human-chimpanzee hybrid. Both attempts at inseminating chimpanzees with human sperm and women with ape sperm failed.en.m.wikipedia.org@[email protected] to Today I LearnedEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-square@givesomefuckslinkEnglish27•8 months agoTechnically OP is grammatically correct… The expirement failed because his orangutan died before he could get a sperm sample Like, I’ve failed at my attempt at being the winning QB in the Super Bowl. Doesn’t mean I lost a Super Bowl as QB Like the attempt at doing it failed, it just failed before the first step was even taken. Definitely confusing tho and you were right to clarify. I’m just being a nerd about it
minus-square@givesomefuckslinkEnglish9•8 months agoYou make jokes about it, but 2 grad students still have carpal tunnel…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•8 months agoHa fair point. I’d argue though that if you never, say, took the steps of getting to the NFL then you didn’t make an “attempt.” But yeah, in your analogy it’s more like his team didn’t make it to the playoffs.
Technically OP is grammatically correct…
The expirement failed because his orangutan died before he could get a sperm sample
Like, I’ve failed at my attempt at being the winning QB in the Super Bowl. Doesn’t mean I lost a Super Bowl as QB
Like the attempt at doing it failed, it just failed before the first step was even taken.
Definitely confusing tho and you were right to clarify. I’m just being a nerd about it
“so here I was jerking off Steve and he just collapsed”
You make jokes about it, but 2 grad students still have carpal tunnel…
Ha fair point. I’d argue though that if you never, say, took the steps of getting to the NFL then you didn’t make an “attempt.”
But yeah, in your analogy it’s more like his team didn’t make it to the playoffs.