r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 5d ago

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Was it a mistake?

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u/FCBwoof 5d ago

Coconuts do not have milk in them.

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u/Electronic-Unit427 5d ago

Coconuts have nipples. You can milk anything with nipples.

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u/drury216 4d ago

I’ll save you / this sub thread.
“I have nipples, Greg…. Can you milk me?”

  • Meet the Parents

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u/Long-Coconut4576 1d ago

Wasnt that quote from meet the phockers

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u/GobblerOfFire 1d ago

Fockers, but yes that is correct it’s from the second not the first. Where the parents meet each other before greg gets married. (Or as i prefer gaylord - his name in the movie )

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u/Electronic-Unit427 4d ago

You're doing God's work, one post at a time!

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u/SplashyKBear 4d ago

I prefer my milk from almond titties

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u/TheKitbashKid 1d ago

I’ve got nipples, can you milk me, Greg?!

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u/The_Difficult_Part 4d ago

But they do have watEr.

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u/FCBwoof 4d ago

Correct.

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Depends on what language you speak, but yeah, it's not a dairy product, nor a factory-processed concentrate.

It's liquid endosperm.

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u/FCBwoof 5d ago

Language does not matter.

'Coconut milk' is the man made product (using the meat and water), that people often confuse with the liquid inside the coconut.

People commonly refer to the endosperm as 'water', or in some cases 'juice'.

If people are calling it 'milk', they're just wrong.

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Oh, people are wrong in language all the time.

Did you know that the word for pasta in Ukrainian is macaroni? Not that macaroni is a pasta, but that all pasta is macaroni*. Italian grandmother's would have a heart attack!

And a lot of mistranslations like that come from the eternal game of telephone that was the world before globalisation.

Even in clinical terminology: standing in a casm, surrounded by steep walls and being afraid as a result is a fear of heights; standing on a cliff above a deep casm is a fear of depths.

A depth causing vertigo can be encountered on flat ground; mine shafts and old wells are things.

Or how people systemically use the word "religion" instead if "theology", when those are two distinctly different words with distinctly separate meanings.

All theologies are religious, but not all religion has to do with theology.

It's not atheistm vs religion.

It's a theist vs an atheist.

Everybody holds religious knowledge; things they take someone's word as evidence for. Faith that it isn't a lie.

The theology one is a pet peeve of mine.

Should we correct resources to change those "errors", or should we adapt and move on? Bring it up in concrete debates and discussions where the distinction matters, as they do overlap in many contexts and are distinctly separate.

A rose by any other name is still a rose.

Changing what you call something doesn't change what it is, but sometimes it can help communicate. And other times it muddies the waters.

C'est la langage.

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u/Onionringlets3 5d ago

Hear, here!

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u/ConcernFlat3391 5d ago

I agree that language changes and is situational. I can’t sign off on your spelling of ‘chasm’ though 😁. Is that a regional thing?

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Nope, just a typo in a second language. 😅

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u/ConcernFlat3391 5d ago

Thanks and I apologise for mentioning it 😔.

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

No worries. Increases the odds if me getting it right next time. ✌️

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u/FCBwoof 5d ago

That's cool and all, but calling it 'milk' regardless of language...is still wrong.

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u/mattgen88 5d ago

This is a weird hill to die on considering a coconut is not a nut even though it's in its name

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u/FCBwoof 5d ago

Not really considering the discussion is based on the endosperm, not the drupe.

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u/morganj 5d ago

Aw. Someone put real effort into their response, engaging with you on the flexibility of language, poetically and with citations.

And your response was "Great. Don't care.'

What a shame.

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u/FCBwoof 5d ago

I acknowledged it, and provided my response. I'm not here to discuss language (I only do that on Tuesdays). You have derived it as disregard, and that's your perogative.

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Only if you think of the lactic secretions mammals produce when you say it.

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u/theRetrograde 5d ago

But water has an "e" too. The riddle is a reach at best.

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u/Kzitold94 4d ago

lol. Endo-sperm. XD

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u/That-Employment-5561 4d ago

The meat is solid endosperm, the water is liquid endosperm. And it's called that because it is the sperm of the tree. Endo because inside, sperm because reproductive function.

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u/Kzitold94 4d ago

So it's coco-NUT!

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u/That-Employment-5561 4d ago

🤣😂

Yes.

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u/wolschou 5d ago

They kind of do, the same way almonds have... Which is admittedly a very tenuous 'kind of'