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Originally Posted by JScott
LOL thanks for the semantics lesson. I was just trying to do what i could to ease people's minds since there have been several terminal spike posts lately with people thinking their plants are going to die, and I was trying to do so in a way people with less knowledge of orchid structures could understand.. And yes, I also remember the moment when i connected "meristem tissue" to "human stem cells".
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I think most people are going to associate terminal spike with terminal disease, so I found your post to be a very good idea, semantics or not!
This discussion makes me think about the french school system, where 6th grade is also 6th grade, but then instead of counting up, it counts down. 11th grade is called 1st grade, and 12th is called.... Terminale!! No, you don't die at the end of Terminale, but it sure feels like way when you're a student and desperately cramming for the horrible marathon of end of high school exams. (I still shudder when I remember the day where I had a 4 hour English literature exam in the morning, followed by a a 6 hour economics exam in the afternoon...)
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