775: Savannah Ancestry - Revision history

Chronotix: /* Explanation */

2025-12-16T18:51:24Z

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172.71.222.246: /* Explanation */

2025-05-02T17:25:46Z

‎Explanation

Bautistaarian at 21:30, 9 February 2025

2025-02-09T21:30:35Z

172.68.192.233: /* Explanation */ corrected the note about orthography - both savanna and savannah are correct, some dictionaries (Cambridge) even prefer the latter

2024-09-07T18:22:03Z

‎Explanation: corrected the note about orthography - both savanna and savannah are correct, some dictionaries (Cambridge) even prefer the latter

172.69.194.82: /* Explanation */ Using a colon+semicolonised list-layer makes the "and" superfluous at that point.

2024-08-27T23:02:07Z

‎Explanation: Using a colon+semicolonised list-layer makes the "and" superfluous at that point.

172.69.194.83: /* Explanation */ Don't make m-dashes look like the hyphens they're not supposed to be.

2024-08-27T22:59:29Z

‎Explanation: Don't make m-dashes look like the hyphens they're not supposed to be.

42.book.addict at 17:07, 27 August 2024

2024-08-27T17:07:34Z

KarenJoyce: I thought of changing this to Yo' mama, but Yo mama follows the style on Wikipedia so I just removed spaces around em dashes.

2024-08-27T17:00:39Z

I thought of changing this to Yo' mama, but Yo mama follows the style on Wikipedia so I just removed spaces around em dashes.

108.162.238.109: /* Explanation */

2023-11-24T13:47:47Z

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172.70.147.148 at 11:43, 14 November 2022

2022-11-14T11:43:43Z

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 ==Explanation==
-First, some quick definitions: Savanna ancestry usually means our ancestors in the {{w|Human evolution|African savanna}}, millions of years ago; {{w|Savannah, Georgia|Savannah, Georgia, USA}} is a city in the United States; Evo-psych means {{w|evolutionary psychology}}
+First, some quick definitions: Savanna ancestry usually means our ancestors in the {{w|Human evolution|African savanna}}, millions of years ago; {{w|Savannah, Georgia|Savannah, Georgia, USA}} is a city in the United States; Evo-psych means {{w|evolutionary psychology}}.
 [[Cueball]] is apparently trying to teach [[Megan]] something mathematical, feels frustrated at his lack of success, blames that lack of success entirely on his student, and appears to use evolutionary psychology, specifically a popular trope/myth about women being bad at abstract thinking, as an excuse. Evolutionary excuses in this context are trying to lay blame somewhere other than either participant, and so can be seen as comforting, but of course they falsely place all women in an inferior position to all men, at least when it comes to "abstract math". She naturally objects to the excuse,  calls it bullshit sexism, and, depending on how you interpret it, may indicate this isn't the first time she's heard him say something similar.

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 First, some quick definitions: Savanna ancestry usually means our ancestors in the {{w|Human evolution|African savanna}}, millions of years ago; {{w|Savannah, Georgia|Savannah, Georgia, USA}} is a city in the United States; Evo-psych means {{w|evolutionary psychology}}
-[[Cueball]] is apparently trying to teach [[Megan]] something mathematical, feels frustrated at his lack of success, blames that lack of success entirely on his student, and appears to use evolutionary psychology, specifically a popular trope/myth about women being bad at abstract thinking, as an excuse. Evolutionary excuses in this context are trying to lay blame somewhere other than either participant, and so can be seen as comforting, but of course they falsely place all women in an inferior position to all men, at least when it comes to "abstract math". She naturally objects to the excuse, rightly calls it bullshit sexism, and, depending on how you interpret it, may indicate this isn't the first time she's heard him say something similar.
+[[Cueball]] is apparently trying to teach [[Megan]] something mathematical, feels frustrated at his lack of success, blames that lack of success entirely on his student, and appears to use evolutionary psychology, specifically a popular trope/myth about women being bad at abstract thinking, as an excuse. Evolutionary excuses in this context are trying to lay blame somewhere other than either participant, and so can be seen as comforting, but of course they falsely place all women in an inferior position to all men, at least when it comes to "abstract math". She naturally objects to the excuse,  calls it bullshit sexism, and, depending on how you interpret it, may indicate this isn't the first time she's heard him say something similar.
 But the twist is that he turns out not to be talking about her lower-case savanna (which may also be spelled with "h" like the city) ancestors, the ones in the African savanna of millenia ago, but rather of her very recent "Savannah ancestors", better called parents, who live in the city of Savannah. They apparently know each other well. The implication is now much more personal: that her mother didn't prepare her. Of course, Randall uses only upper case everywhere, so he has avoided giving the reader a clue about the misdirect-joke he is working toward.

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 [[Cueball]] is apparently trying to teach [[Megan]] something mathematical, feels frustrated at his lack of success, blames that lack of success entirely on his student, and appears to use evolutionary psychology, specifically a popular trope/myth about women being bad at abstract thinking, as an excuse. Evolutionary excuses in this context are trying to lay blame somewhere other than either participant, and so can be seen as comforting, but of course they falsely place all women in an inferior position to all men, at least when it comes to "abstract math". She naturally objects to the excuse, rightly calls it bullshit sexism, and, depending on how you interpret it, may indicate this isn't the first time she's heard him say something similar.
-But the twist is that he turns out not to be talking about her lower-case savanna (which may also be spelled with "h" like the city) ancestors, the ones in the African savanna of eons ago, but rather of her very recent "Savannah ancestors", better called parents, who live in the city of Savannah. They apparently know each other well. The implication is now much more personal: that her mother didn't prepare her. Of course, Randall uses only upper case everywhere, so he has avoided giving the reader a clue about the misdirect-joke he is working toward.
+But the twist is that he turns out not to be talking about her lower-case savanna (which may also be spelled with "h" like the city) ancestors, the ones in the African savanna of millenia ago, but rather of her very recent "Savannah ancestors", better called parents, who live in the city of Savannah. They apparently know each other well. The implication is now much more personal: that her mother didn't prepare her. Of course, Randall uses only upper case everywhere, so he has avoided giving the reader a clue about the misdirect-joke he is working toward.
 Teasing people about their mothers in the USA — specifically that their mothers' are particularly stupid, fat or promiscuous — is a common enough theme in popular culture that there is a series of jokes that start with the words "Yo mama" that exemplify the genre. There is also an extremely common theme that the South's education system is failing; the comic combines the two.

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 [[Cueball]] is apparently trying to teach [[Megan]] something mathematical, feels frustrated at his lack of success, blames that lack of success entirely on his student, and appears to use evolutionary psychology, specifically a popular trope/myth about women being bad at abstract thinking, as an excuse. Evolutionary excuses in this context are trying to lay blame somewhere other than either participant, and so can be seen as comforting, but of course they falsely place all women in an inferior position to all men, at least when it comes to "abstract math". She naturally objects to the excuse, rightly calls it bullshit sexism, and, depending on how you interpret it, may indicate this isn't the first time she's heard him say something similar.
-But the twist is that he turns out not to be talking about her lower-case (also, without a trailing "h") savanna ancestors, the ones in the African savanna of eons ago, but rather of her very recent "Savannah ancestors", better called parents, who live in the city of Savannah. They apparently know each other well. The implication is now much more personal: that her mother didn't prepare her. Of course, Randall uses only upper case everywhere, so he has avoided giving the reader a clue about the misdirect-joke he is working toward.
+But the twist is that he turns out not to be talking about her lower-case savanna (which may also be spelled with "h" like the city) ancestors, the ones in the African savanna of eons ago, but rather of her very recent "Savannah ancestors", better called parents, who live in the city of Savannah. They apparently know each other well. The implication is now much more personal: that her mother didn't prepare her. Of course, Randall uses only upper case everywhere, so he has avoided giving the reader a clue about the misdirect-joke he is working toward.
 Teasing people about their mothers in the USA — specifically that their mothers' are particularly stupid, fat or promiscuous — is a common enough theme in popular culture that there is a series of jokes that start with the words "Yo mama" that exemplify the genre. There is also an extremely common theme that the South's education system is failing; the comic combines the two.

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 ==Explanation==
-First, some quick definitions: Savanna ancestry usually means our ancestors in the {{w|Human evolution|African savanna}}, millions of years ago; {{w|Savannah, Georgia|Savannah, Georgia, USA}} is a city in the United States; and evo-psych means {{w|evolutionary psychology}}
+First, some quick definitions: Savanna ancestry usually means our ancestors in the {{w|Human evolution|African savanna}}, millions of years ago; {{w|Savannah, Georgia|Savannah, Georgia, USA}} is a city in the United States; Evo-psych means {{w|evolutionary psychology}}
 [[Cueball]] is apparently trying to teach [[Megan]] something mathematical, feels frustrated at his lack of success, blames that lack of success entirely on his student, and appears to use evolutionary psychology, specifically a popular trope/myth about women being bad at abstract thinking, as an excuse. Evolutionary excuses in this context are trying to lay blame somewhere other than either participant, and so can be seen as comforting, but of course they falsely place all women in an inferior position to all men, at least when it comes to "abstract math". She naturally objects to the excuse, rightly calls it bullshit sexism, and, depending on how you interpret it, may indicate this isn't the first time she's heard him say something similar.

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 But the twist is that he turns out not to be talking about her lower-case (also, without a trailing "h") savanna ancestors, the ones in the African savanna of eons ago, but rather of her very recent "Savannah ancestors", better called parents, who live in the city of Savannah. They apparently know each other well. The implication is now much more personal: that her mother didn't prepare her. Of course, Randall uses only upper case everywhere, so he has avoided giving the reader a clue about the misdirect-joke he is working toward.
-Teasing people about their mothers in the USA—specifically that their mothers' are particularly stupid, fat or promiscuous—is a common enough theme in popular culture that there is a series of jokes that start with the words "Yo mama" that exemplify the genre. There is also an extremely common theme that the South's education system is failing; the comic combines the two.
+Teasing people about their mothers in the USA — specifically that their mothers' are particularly stupid, fat or promiscuous — is a common enough theme in popular culture that there is a series of jokes that start with the words "Yo mama" that exemplify the genre. There is also an extremely common theme that the South's education system is failing; the comic combines the two.
 The title text is apparently Megan starting to defend her mother, but then lapsing into a Yo Mama joke without the introducing words, showing that her mother is stupid enough to think that a quarterback (one of the positions played in American football) would be a river in Egypt. This is a conflation of the Yo Mama joke "Yo mama so stupid she thinks a quarterback is a refund!" and the common pun, "Denial (sounds like "The Nile") is not just a river in Egypt".

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 But the twist is that he turns out not to be talking about her lower-case(also, without a trailing "h") savanna ancestors, the ones in the African savanna of eons ago, but rather of her very recent "Savannah ancestors", better called parents, who live in the city of Savannah. They apparently know each other well. The implication is now much more personal: that her mother didn't prepare her. Of course, Randall uses only upper case everywhere, so he has avoided giving the reader a clue about the misdirect-joke he is working toward.
-Teasing people about their mothers in the USA, specifically about their mothers' stupidity or fatness, is a common enough theme in popular culture that there is a series of jokes that start with the words "Yo mama" that exemplify the genre. There is also an extremely common theme that the South's education system is failing; the comic combines the two.
+Teasing people about their mothers in the USA — specifically that their mothers' are particularly stupid, fat or promiscuous — is a common enough theme in popular culture that there is a series of jokes that start with the words "Yo mama" that exemplify the genre. There is also an extremely common theme that the South's education system is failing; the comic combines the two.
 The title text is apparently Megan starting to defend her mother, but then lapsing into a Yo Mama joke without the introducing words, showing that her mother is stupid enough to think that a quarterback (one of the positions played in American football) would be a river in Egypt. This is a conflation of the Yo Mama joke "Yo mama so stupid she thinks a quarterback is a refund!" and the common pun, "Denial (sounds like "The Nile") is not just a river in Egypt".