• Theo@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Maybe, but there are a number of books on what The Simpsons teaches us about science and mathematics, among others. I wouldn’t doubt there is a paper that talks about that.

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      2 months ago

      Also linguistics. The Simpsons taught me that “embiggen” is a perfectly cromulent word

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, they literally invented it and got it added to the dictionary. Here, I thought I had heard it before.