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Platystemon posted:Plenty of English animals names are like this, we just laundered them through other languages. yes thats the interesting linguistic part. modern Chinese doesn't have an older language like Latin/Greek/Old versions of itself/etc... to go back to like English and many other languages do. Like unless you studied the stuff, your average English speaker would not know hippopotamus means river horse, etc... But because of how characters work and mainly due to how they are not phonetic but rather semantic in nature, characters often have the same meaning as they did hundreds and hundreds of years ago which makes it more in your face. like hippo in chinese is 河馬 which also means, literally, "river horse" and was in fact how I found out hippopotamus means river horse in English. other fun ones: turkey is fire chicken raccoon is washing bear panda is bear cat kangaroo is pocket mouse owl is cat-headed eagle giraffe is long neck deer etc...
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River horse is fairly easy to work out if you know what a Hippodrome and the Potomac are. Though I know the Potomac doesn't derive from Potamos I assumed they worked it backwards into that when anglicising it. OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 07:33 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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Giraffes used to be “camelopards” before English stole Arabic’s version. No fun allowed.
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Magna Kaser posted:yes thats the interesting linguistic part. modern Chinese doesn't have an older language like Latin/Greek/Old versions of itself/etc... to go back to like English and many other languages do. Like unless you studied the stuff, your average English speaker would not know hippopotamus means river horse, etc... Hippopotamus doesn't mean "river horse" in English it means it in ancient Greek.
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"Emotions are feminine ladeedah" gently caress the gently caress off, most wars were fought over a bunch of super hetero man getting overly upset about something or wanting to get laid. Men are extremely emotional and I'm so goddamn sick of this poo poo. Y'all get violent over the dumbest poo poo, just loving own up to it already.
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In my quest to find out what 'himbo' means I offer up this discovery.
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Inceltown posted:In my quest to find out what 'himbo' means I offer up this discovery. apparently SimCopter got wild.
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Picnic Princess posted:"Emotions are feminine ladeedah" Sorry it's only an emotion if it's felt by a woman, otherwise it's just sparkling anger.
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Magna Kaser posted:other fun ones: Raccoon's a washing bear in German and Italian too.
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Aramoro posted:Sorry it's only an emotion if it's felt by a woman, otherwise it's just sparkling anger. Goddamit I'm trying to let my husband sleep and here you are making me laugh
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Inceltown posted:In my quest to find out what 'himbo' means I offer up this discovery. I miss SimCopter 
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Yawgmoth posted:What kind of popsicle doesn't have a stick?! You don't have freeze pops where you come from? Those liquid-in-plastic things you stick in the freezer? Or the slightly posher versions in wax-paper cones?
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Yawgmoth posted:What kind of popsicle doesn't have a stick?!
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Runcible Cat posted:You don't have freeze pops where you come from? Those liquid-in-plastic things you stick in the freezer? Or the slightly posher versions in wax-paper cones? We always called those ice polls, never had the wax paper cones ones. Lolly's make perfect sense though. Lollipops -> Ice Lollipops -> Ice Lollys -> Lollys. It's popsicle that makes no sense.
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Picnic Princess posted:"Emotions are feminine ladeedah" Hey now, she said men can be emotional too. It's just "gay" when they do.
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Aramoro posted:We always called those ice polls, never had the wax paper cones ones. Lollipop+icicle, hth
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Aramoro posted:We always called those ice polls, never had the wax paper cones ones. I'd guess Popsicle is a portmanteau of Lolly Pop and Icicle. Australians call them Icy Poles.
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      notable snippets: "I have enormous respect for every single police officer, especially right now." "now I CANNOT WAIT to vote red baby!!" "Conservatives are the most accepting out there." "Welcome to the new counter culture." apparently there aren't counter protests because conservatives are following the 1967 model "We accept everyone here." and just the entirety of that last one Another top post right now is "Long time conservative liberal here. The Marxist Democratic agendas are getting out of hand. The fact they are going to take down Teddy FREAKING Roosevelt’s Statue drove me back to reality." and it's just as much oppositeofreality.png except for the "conservative liberal" part quote:What the gently caress was I thinking? Democrats are basically making people accept an ideology that’s really 1% of the population and a very vocal one for sure with deep loving pockets. Look at the loving example of how the Left wants to take down Teddy Roosevelt’s state in front of a NYC museum. It’s ridiculous. What’s next? FDR? George Washington? Thomas Jefferson? stringless has a new favorite as of 12:08 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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hooman posted:I'd guess Popsicle is a portmanteau of Lolly Pop and Icicle. Where I'm from we call em "cold on the cob"
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What does any of this mean?hooman posted:Australians call them Icy Poles.
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Also popsicle is a genericized trademark, so you'd think it would catch on in the land of the "hoover"
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Tiggum posted:What does any of this mean?
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Tiggum posted:What does any of this mean? Thanks for that I didn't know that. It's like potato cakes/scallops, and swimmers/togs/bathers. Even Australians can't agree what our slang is. EDIT: now I want a frosty fruit.
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Data Graham posted:Also popsicle is a genericized trademark, so you'd think it would catch on in the land of the "hoover" I may be wrong here but I'm not sure the Popsicle ever made it here, I've certainly never seen a Popsicle branded thing. Which might be why it never caught on. Whereas Hoover was the dominant brand in vacuum cleaners in the UK.
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I love the impossible situation the Trump campaign is in where they either have to admit they got rolled by a bunch of teenagers, or they can deny that was a factor and admit that no one showed up for their rally.
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letthereberock posted:I love the impossible situation the Trump campaign is in where they either have to admit they got rolled by a bunch of teenagers, or they can deny that was a factor and admit that no one showed up for their rally. Instead they’ll take option 3 and some 13 year old from Tennessee will get arrested on a no-knock warrant for election fraud and domestic terrorism. It’ll take years to get sorted out and her life will get ruined, but in the end the judge will inevitably dismiss the charges against the feared Antifa mastermind “HwaeyunStan”.
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Eh! Frank posted:I miss SimCopter While we’re talking languange, I still love that the word helicopter isn’t made up of ‘heli’ and ‘copter’ but ‘helico’ and ‘pter’. SimCopter, you need to rethink your name.
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EL BROMANCE posted:While we’re talking languange, I still love that the word helicopter isn’t made up of ‘heli’ and ‘copter’ but ‘helico’ and ‘pter’. "Simpter" is a very 2020 word that has yet to gain prominence
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EL BROMANCE posted:While we’re talking languange, I still love that the word helicopter isn’t made up of ‘heli’ and ‘copter’ but ‘helico’ and ‘pter’. Oh, is that what it's supposed to be? I never actually played the game, so I just assumed it was an airport management sim set in a small county in southern ontario
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FFT posted:apparently SimCopter got wild. I'm really happy that I'm not the only person who got to "fluorescent nipples" and thought "oh, SimCopter."
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Wow can you imagine the entire country being beholden to a system beneficial to less than 1% of the population? That would suck.
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seiferguy posted:As far as I can tell he doesn't do cartoons anymore and focuses solely on the Babylon bee. But yeah his cartoons were him basically using the bible like a law book to pretzel twist himself into justifying his hatred of LGBTQA+ people. He was a right wing evangelical version of The Oatmeal. Replace the 3rd panel with the 4th, and make the 4th her saying "No, I just have the ability to learn peoples gender, especially when they're big assholes." and do that for every attack helicopter 4 panel
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Platystemon posted:Plenty of English animals names are like this, we just laundered them through other languages. Then what do they call hedge... hogs... is this one of those Norman/Saxon dualities from when French vikings ran England and tried to turn English into French so now we'll have 2 words where the one is the fancy Norman one and the other is germanic Old English? But we only got 1 set of rude words so French porn video titles are incomprehensible and latiny like baises ils crouquette.mkv but with German and Dutch vids something like arseficken frau! ein houndsheisseaten!.mp4 you kinda know what you're in for Syd Midnight has a new favorite as of 17:41 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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Syd Midnight posted:arseficken frau! ein houndsheisseaten!.mp4 Hundescheissessen. 
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Syd Midnight posted:Then what do they call hedge... hogs... It's Igel, which is pronounced exactly like eagle and still confuses me every time. There's a comprehensive flowchart for German animal names here: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/funny-animal-names-in-german
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