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Comment by eli_gottlieb | Hacker News Reader

So they're saying one out of every three unicorns infected with the novel coronavirus will emerge as a winged unicorn?

"While reading a post on hacker news, a Softbank earnings call presentation caused me to google the difference between a unicorn and a Pegasus" is just one of those sentences that sounds Insane in prior to 2020.

           | no wings |  wings
  ---------+----------+--------
  no horn  |  horse   | pegasus
  ---------+----------+--------
  horn     | unicorn  | alicorn

Notice "alicorn" is actually the name of the unicorns' horn, historically.

At some point people started using it for winged unicorns, presumably because "Ali" would be Latin for "wings" but this seems a recent development.

I wonder if it’s My Little Pony related

MLP popularized this usage but it predates that.

I think the one in the first field is known as "pegacorn": http://www.dorktower.com/2018/10/23/my-kingdom-for-a-pegacor...

  sudo pacman -S ponysay
  ponythink this is awesome

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