▲ 420 ▼ xkcd #3256: Nostalgia Content (imgs.xkcd.com) submitted 5 months ago by xkcdbot@lemmy.world [B] to c/xkcd@lemmy.world 15 comments fedilink hide all child comments xkcd #3256: Nostalgia Content Title text: Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are. Transcript: Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com Source: https://xkcd.com/3256/ explainxkcd for #3256
[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 14 points 5 months ago (2 children) Does he mean Prototaxites? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 13 points 5 months ago* (1 child) Probably, as pictured. I miss them dearly. (However inappropriately they were later named.) But also TIL about the word wiki/Parataxis: Parataxis (from Greek: παράταξις, "act of placing side by side"; from παρα, para "beside" + τάξις, táxis "arrangement") is a literary technique in writing or speaking that favors short, simple sentences without conjunctions, or sentences coordinated without the use of subordinating conjunctions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 5 months ago I bet XKCD is setting this up for a future issue where they make the correction and subsequent explanation. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 13 points 5 months ago* (1 child) Probably, as pictured. I miss them dearly. (However inappropriately they were later named.) But also TIL about the word wiki/Parataxis: Parataxis (from Greek: παράταξις, "act of placing side by side"; from παρα, para "beside" + τάξις, táxis "arrangement") is a literary technique in writing or speaking that favors short, simple sentences without conjunctions, or sentences coordinated without the use of subordinating conjunctions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 5 months ago I bet XKCD is setting this up for a future issue where they make the correction and subsequent explanation. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 5 months ago I bet XKCD is setting this up for a future issue where they make the correction and subsequent explanation. permalink fedilink source parent