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Trust your training (lemmy.world)
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[–] 44 points 2 years ago (15 children)

As a non-native English speaker, I still have no idea why this specific phrase is so significant and at this point I'm afraid to ask.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I was born in the 1970's and it is lost on me too, I think its something that became a thing to the generation after me

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I took biology in 1996; it wasn't a thing yet. Someone else claimed it was already widespread by 2001. I don't think I encountered it in the wild before 2005, but it could have been much later than that.

    KnowYourMeme suggests the phrase originated in a textbook from 1957, but it didn't reach memehood until 2014.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I think it comes from an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and exploded as a meme.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It’s not from any specific media reference, it’s just essentially what every child was taught, verbatim, in grade school.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I think it's just the most simplified you can get talking about cellular biology, specifically when teaching organelles. So most primary science textbooks use that terminology and it's more memorable than all the other organelles so it just stuck and it got repeated and reviewed every year and it sorta became a pre Internet meme and part of a shared consciousness if you were schooled in the US.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    6th grade biology class in the United States, 2001 AD.

    The teacher slaps up a diagram of a cell and organelles.

    30-45 children all looking around the room, not exactly paying attention

    She points to the various organelles, trying to explain their purpose, the golgi complex, ribosomes..

    "And the mitochondria"

    "Is the power house of the cell"

    Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes.

    It then enters the collective unconscious of English speakers.

    I was in the room where it happened.

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