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Why is that little groove that runs down the middle of a sword called a "fuller" (on the swords that have those grooves, obviously) when it is literally the opposite in that the sword is now less full of metal?
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Solice Kirsk posted:Cause white people be all starchy and bland? which race does this remind you most of ? 
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Jun 22, 2016 21:35
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I've seen etymologies for "cracker" where it means "the people who sell all the crack and/or are responsible for the crack trade", with varying levels of conspiracy-theory attached to that depending on the speaker
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Jun 22, 2016 21:43
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loquacius posted:I've seen etymologies for "cracker" where it means "the people who sell all the crack and/or are responsible for the crack trade", with varying levels of conspiracy-theory attached to that depending on the speaker 
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Jun 22, 2016 21:47
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thathonkey posted:ain't a mystery. they were originally simple dog treats literally used to "hush the puppy" so the hunter could cook his real human food in peace. That's not true though.
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Jun 22, 2016 21:50
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Why is that little groove that runs down the middle of a sword called a "fuller" (on the swords that have those grooves, obviously) when it is literally the opposite in that the sword is now less full of metal? Cause Fuller loves Pepsi
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Jun 22, 2016 21:51
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thathonkey posted:hrmm i actually forget the etymology of honkey but cracker is pretty self-explanatory honkey is a 70's jive name for white fellas honking at hookers in harlem
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Jun 22, 2016 21:52
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psychokitty posted:That's not true though. then i guess i've been lied to by the hushpuppy conspirators united coaliation and their horrific objective to mislead the public by exploting on their goodwill and naivety when it comes to food etymology . god drat. my whole life is a lie in fact ...
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loquacius posted:I've seen etymologies for "cracker" where it means "the people who sell all the crack and/or are responsible for the crack trade", with varying levels of conspiracy-theory attached to that depending on the speaker and cracker is from whitey crackin the whip at their slaves
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Jun 22, 2016 21:52
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thathonkey posted:which race does this remind you most of ? Well, it's all pocky and salty soooo....what ever race Edward James Almos is?
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thathonkey posted:then i guess i've been lied to by the hushpuppy conspirators united coaliation and their horrific objective to mislead the public. god drat. my whole life is a lie in fact ... IKR it's terrifying.
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Jun 22, 2016 21:53
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A "lush" was originally just an adjective for vibrant and full of energy, much like a healthy plant or colorful flower. This was later turned into a semi-insulting term for a drunkard, because someone who is drunk is always vibrant and full of energy and color, or in other words, the life of the party. This is where the semi-insult "lush" came from.
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Jun 22, 2016 21:55
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Also like a lush plant a drunk is well-watered
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Jun 22, 2016 21:56
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Also like a well-watered lush plant, if you keep on watering a drunkard it dies.
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Jun 22, 2016 22:07
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:I can verify that the Rock River which runs right through Winnebago county is indeed stinky water Ahh, yes, the Winnebago County.
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Jun 22, 2016 22:25
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8 track betamax posted:Also what do you eggheads think about the pidgen theory of english....or whatever it's called. It's the idea that english developed as a pidgen trade language mixing middle english with french or something like that. Seems like word on the street is such that english shows evidence of being a pidgen in the past what because of certain "features" it used to of had.. but have gone the way of the dodo since. Stuff like noun case (only preserved in our pronouns like a retarded little brother locked up in the basement) And overlaying of latin grammer structures into english. Like the havoir helping verb??? I dunno it's been a while since I listened to the podcast on this subject. The prevalence of french loan words is mostly due to the Normans invading England in 1066. As the language evolved, things associated with the upper classes (law, cuisine, writing, politics, etc.) used the French word. However, the lower class still used the Germanic based words on a regular basis. They eventually kind of merged into the hodge podge mixture we have today. Not sure about how we lost the gender system though.
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Jun 22, 2016 22:39
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William the conqueror was kind of a jerk then because learning gender in every other language you want to understand when the concept of gendered nouns is as alien as any other language concept but abstracted another layer from most of it.
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The term human being as a homosexual insult was derived from a gay person's propensity to carry large bundles of sticks to build their nests with. (colloquially known in Europe as faggots)
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Jun 22, 2016 22:50
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psychokitty posted:recently my family had a serious discussion about the origins of the word "hushpuppy," meaning a fried corn batter flavored with onion and spices. apparently it's a permanent food mystery. From days of when poor people would cook and eat river salamanders an it was shameful to do so they euphemistically called them "hush puppies" which later got transferred to any non-fish breaded fried up thing and then eventually to those bread balls in my long john silvers family feast.
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Jun 22, 2016 23:06
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Infidel Castro posted:Not sure about how we lost the gender system though. Because when people have to learn the genders of objects in two different languages and they disagree, they're more inclined to just go "gently caress this".
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Jun 22, 2016 23:07
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Infidel Castro posted:The prevalence of french loan words is mostly due to the Normans invading England in 1066. As the language evolved, things associated with the upper classes (law, cuisine, writing, politics, etc.) used the French word. However, the lower class still used the Germanic based words on a regular basis. They eventually kind of merged into the hodge podge mixture we have today. Because languages tend to become more simplified when in contact with other languages.
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Jun 22, 2016 23:10
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Why do they call it a cock pit?
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Jun 22, 2016 23:18
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Palicgofueniczekt posted:Ahh, yes, the Winnebago County. I accept that, although the river does run through 2 of the 3 Winnebago Counties (IL and WI but not IA)
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Jun 22, 2016 23:25
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It's called a galaxy because of boobs
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'nose' is derived from the ancient greek word 'gnose' meaning organ of knowledge on account of the ancient belief that thoughts were smells. the philosopher most associated with the theory is parmenides of elea. as the original genius of the smell theory of knowledge, it is hardly surprising that that smelliest of cheeses, parmigiana, is named for him, roughly translated as 'king of odours/great wedge of knowing'
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Jun 22, 2016 23:38
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hemophilia posted:William the conqueror was kind of a jerk then because learning gender in every other language you want to understand when the concept of gendered nouns is as alien as any other language concept but abstracted another layer from most of it. I agree, gendered nouns a stupid idea and I'm glad we got rid of them.
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Infidel Castro posted:I agree, gendered nouns a stupid idea and I'm glad we got rid of them. what you don't want to have to memorize columns of mutations for Der/Die/Das for every case and when you're supposed to use them?!
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hemophilia posted:what you don't want to have to memorize columns of mutations for Der/Die/Das for every case and when you're supposed to use them?! That's what I did in college, hence why I know they're bullshit.
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Infidel Castro posted:That's what I did in college, hence why I know they're bullshit. lol colage boy
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hemophilia posted:what you don't want to have to memorize columns of mutations for Der/Die/Das for every case and when you're supposed to use them?! Heavens to betsy you idiot thats not how you go about learning a language
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8 track betamax posted:Heavens to betsy you idiot thats not how you go about learning a language Honestly i didn't learn that way, but incidentally you can organize gender cases into columns and when you do it drives home how loving dumb it is
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Jun 23, 2016 00:37
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8 track betamax posted:Heavens to betsy you idiot thats not how you go about learning a language Yeah, go out drinking and use your 6-year-old equivalent vocabulary to talk with professionals about their work with ic cards, automotive engineering, etc.
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Palicgofueniczekt posted:Yeah, go out drinking and use your 6-year-old equivalent vocabulary to talk with professionals about their work with ic cards, automotive engineering, etc. Augment your german vocabulary with rammstein songs. you can speak like an extremely perverse 7 year old
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"Alley-Oop" is a sound people made back in the day during construction when they would be hoisting someone or something up with the help of another person. The phrase was coined during the reconstruction of Paris after WWII, where French- and English-speaking soldiers needed a bilingual phrase to help them coordinate their labor efforts. Hence: Allez ([we] Go) - Oop ("Up").
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8 track betamax posted:From days of when poor people would cook and eat river salamanders an it was shameful to do so they euphemistically called them "hush puppies" which later got transferred to any non-fish breaded fried up thing and then eventually to those bread balls in my long john silvers family feast. That was one of the "maybe" origins I found.
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8 track betamax posted:Because languages tend to become more simplified when in contact with other languages. yeah and even before the normans showed up, english had been mixing with old norse from the vikings and they shared a lot of the same germanic root words but their inflection systems were pretty different so as the anglo saxons and the danes started to talk to each other they could identify the words that were used but not really the meaning of the whole sentences, because inflections are what tell ppl things like plurality, tense, subject or object etc so they said gently caress it and dropped almost all of the inflections (except for plurality) and started using the order of the words in the sentence with prepositional phrases to indicate what the subject and object was instead of learning new ways to tag it onto words and this is why highly inflected languages can be a pain in the rear end to english speakers because they not only require a lot of memorization but also the words themselves can be arranged in a variety of different orders that make no loving sense to our brains bc we're used to encoding that in the word order of the sentence rather than tagging it onto the words themselves we still have the remnants of older inflection systems in some of our words and they will give you a clue as to how early that word was adopted into the language, like oxen vs oxes
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I call my dog hushpuppy when he barks 
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Orkin Mang posted:lol colage boy A high quality irony post
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between the time the spanish found the rest of south america more interesting/profitable and the time the french came in to set up their sugar plantations, carribean islands like hispaniola became kind of a backwater and some of the french and dutch who had earlier been chased out of there set up in Tortuga and started attacking spanish shipping to make money instead one of the things they would do is poach the now-freely roaming cattle on hispaniola, smoke the meat over platforms in a process that the carribean natives called bukkan, the french called boucaine (sp?) and the spanish called barbacoa, and sell the smoked meat to other ships passing thru. this is the actual origin of not only bbq, but also buccaneer
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Why is a League both a group of extraordinary gentleman, and a measure of distance.
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