My sapient ass is making a blog post

While talking to Lord Sunder and mocking the way the English name things (honestly, 'cooker'? How goddamned non-specific can you get? Technically, my car's dashboard on a hot day can be a 'cooker'), he mentioned how refreshing it is that I use 'sapient' and 'sentient' correctly.

A LOT OF YOU FUCKERS DON'T

So here we go:

Sentient/Sentience: Able to perceive or feel things.

Sapient/Sapience: The ability to think and reason, finely sensitive in perception or feeling.

While sapient beings are also sentient, sentient beings are not always sapient.

Example:

Sapient:

Sentient:

One has the ability to think, reason, and retain memories and learn from them. The other is Twilight Sparkle a duckling.

Comments

[MoldyShishkabob]

/tearsofjoy

[MidnightDancer]

1304289 I do my best

[MoldyShishkabob]

1304298 I remember I made a group for that long ago.

Only has ten people or something.

It saddens me.

[Lord Sunder]

If your ass is sapient, does that mean I need to apologise to it?

[MidnightDancer]

1304299 :(

1304301 You made my ass happy, so no apologies are needed at all

[MidnightDancer]

1304306 do schmoopy got a booty?

schmoopy doooooo

[IncoherentOrange]

I've mentioned this before.
This distinction is not often made and needs to be made more often.

[MidnightDancer]

1304312 it does

I weep when I see it done incorrectly

weep I say

[Vic Viper]

I can say with great pride and dignity that I would love to marry your sapient ass~

[Lord Sunder]

1304315
You can get in line behind Erickilla

[MidnightDancer]

1304327 And who is he behind :3

[Vic Viper]

1304327 The more the merrier~

[TwizzleDragon]

The duck thinks, we just don't know it yet.

[MidnightDancer]

1304330 dude you have NO IDEA

[Vic Viper]

1304332 well....I might...images.wikia.com/elderscrolls/images/1/11/If_you_know_what_I_mean_.png

[MidnightDancer]

1304340 no

1304342 to the post or the comments, because both are fairly 'wat' i suppose

[Timber the wood pony]

i like that duck.

[Kaldanor]

I feel obliged to point out that it has been proven multiple times that animals can retain memories and learn from them. Even goldfish the supposed never remember anything animals have been proven to be able to learn out of several options which one gets them food and then reproduce it months later with no reminder.

You had it right up until the end.

/crawls back into his cave.

[MidnightDancer]

1304680 True, but that was more for the sake of both comedy and simplicity.

[Luz]

#cutenessoverload

[Regidar]

1304303

You made my ass happy, so no apologies are needed at all

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[Bad Horse]

I am sapient, but my designer was unable to incorporate sentience.

[MidnightDancer]

1599444 that's unfortunate

[Bad Horse]

1599855 I fail to follow your logic.

[MidnightDancer]

1599863 that's what you get

(I'm sleepy, you can probably safely ignore me :p)