You use taxonomy to remind you to ask Kevin over?
Ah, the new Lemmy flipperoo
Hold my Kevin (gives him a smooch), I’m going in!
P.S !lemmaroo@lemmy.world exists
My friend came up with almost the exact same thing during high school. The only difference is that the DK stood for “Donkey Kong”.
Can’t say it wasn’t memorable!
I’ve also said Donkey Kong for years!
When I was in 9th grade our geography teacher put us in groups and assigned each of us a group of countries to memorize. We were given the task of creating a mnemonic to help us memorize. We got central America.
Panama, Costa arica, Nicaragua Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico.
Please Call Nick He Sucks Good Butt Man.
It has been over 30 years and I’ve still never called Nick, but I’ll never forget central America.
There’s a particularly horrible one people used to use to remember resistor color codes-
“Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly.”
Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white
Boomer Bigots Rely On Yellow-bellied Garbage By Vulgarizing General Wisdom
My GCSE bio class taught something along the lines of “Dear kinky prostitutes, come over for great sex”
Interesting. Kevin showed up either way.
Remember Send Vedding Present.
Literally taught my son about Prince Philip a few hours ago. And learned domains is a thing now. Wish I could show him this for the serendipity but def no lol
What are learned domains?
I can never remember that. Thanks!
I feel like Community inadvertently helped so many biology students in the past 10 years.
See my stupid ass would remember the fun phrase but not the related factual word. So I’d just have phrases with no inkling what the original info was.
Taxonomy is much more complicated than I remember from high school. For one thing I thought the top level was Kingdom, consisting of Animal and Plant. There’s like 50x more to it. And I actually liked school and mostly paid attention. WTF?
Ah the things I learned from TV Funhouse!
Which is Domain? When I learned this, it only started at Kevin. Nice to see folks getting more polite regarding their gay sex.
The kingdoms have changed several times, they’re basically trying to use a more accurate system based on DNA using genotyping to decide which groups are more closely related and be less reliant on behavior and appearance.
Do these mnemonics actually help?
Well I still remember Roy G. Biv and Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally so maybe?
Depends on the mnemonic. It has to flow and you have to know the steps individually. Although there was one time I spent so long trying to come up with a good mnemonic for the citric acid cycle that I just learned it and gave up.
