• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Alpha means “first”, it does not mean “wolf who fights other wolves while in captivity according to one study.”

    Do people not know this?

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      1 month ago

      No, alpha is the anglicization of the first letter of the greek alphabet. It doesn’t mean ‘first’ any more than the letter A does.

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            The president is a rapist and you’re here calling me thinking about rape out of nowhere, get your head out of your fucking ass

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        It does! However, alpha still means “first”, as it always has. The word predates the study by centuries.