Jun 13, 2021
Growing up as an outdoor kid in a rural area and then going into the field of biology as an adult is just like, learning the proper name for a plant or animal, and reflexively going “oh yeah we used to call those [some absurdly folksy nickname that you’re only now realizing sounds ridiculous]”
I’ll casually say something like “yeah don’t walk in that creek I’ve seen toe-biters and mudbugs in the water and the no see ums on the bank are unbearable” and just be totally oblivious to the fact that I sound like an incomprehensible little swamp rat to my colleagues
