• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    20·
    26 days ago

    For anyone like me

    winnow /wĭn′ō/

    intransitive verb

    To separate the chaff from (grain) by means of a current of air.

    To blow (chaff) off or away.

    To examine closely in order to separate the good from the bad; sift.

    “The judges winnowed a thousand essays down to six finalists.”

    Also I like how they say apes open bananas at the stem end, so that means humans, the more intelligent species, opens them wrong. Though when I think about it it probably has more to do with finger dexterity.

    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
      11·
      26 days ago

      I open bananas from the butt end. It’s much easier. Nothing to do with manual dexterity, you just pinch the very tip where that little gross nub nobody eats is, and it splits right open. No smooshed banana top, no bend-but-not-open.

      We are 100% the dumb ones on that.

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
        4·
        26 days ago

        What I mean is that we have finer dexterity (and fine nails, don’t know what they have) so we can open the small nub easier. I don’t pinch, I cut in with my fingernail so it doesn’t waste. Not that I know apes but I expect that’s difficult for them. They brute force the stem end.

        • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
          5·
          26 days ago

          I misread what you wrote. My bad.

          I’ve only ever heard that they open it from the nub end rather than the stem end, and growing up I only say people open bananas from the stem end. Idk if that’s changed, I’m certainly not paying attention.

          • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
            3·
            26 days ago

            Well I went to double check and I have the whole thing inverted. Apparently monkeys open the nub end because it’s riper and thus softer, and humans tend to open the stem end. Dunno, I always opened the nub end.