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Collateral Damage posted:Is that weird symbol he used for a name part of Unicode now, I wonder. Sorta: Ƭ̵̬̊
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stubblyhead posted:He's still alive you know. Yeah but he was only given that name once
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"Kuukausi", the Finnish word for "month", is made up of the words "kuu" for "moon" and "kausi" for "season" or "period". The word literally means "moon period". Which is what months are. I'm Finnish and apparently dumb.
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Nov 10, 2014 16:07
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Native speakers rarely give much thought to the language they speak. My favourite example was someone making fun of Chinese for calling hippos "river horses", in apparent ignorance of how hippopotamus was derived.
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Nov 10, 2014 16:21
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My wife and I take entirely too much enjoyment from dragging words out of other languages into English. "Do you see my other handbags? These ones don't really cover my arm necks." "They were wet so I hung them on the loop band." Not having children was probably a good move. Being sent home from school for being incomprehensible would probably not be good for a child's development.
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Nov 10, 2014 16:26
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Whiz Palace posted:Native speakers rarely give much thought to the language they speak. I wonder how many English speakers just thought about the origin of the word "month" for the first time thanks to the discussion on this page.
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Nov 10, 2014 16:31
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flakeloaf posted:My wife and I take entirely too much enjoyment from dragging words out of other languages into English. My favorite is the Spanish word for peacock, pavo real, which means royal turkey.
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Nov 10, 2014 16:34
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McPhearson posted:My favorite is the Spanish word for peacock, pavo real, which means royal turkey. In German, gloves are Handschuhe. Literally hand shoes. German is really a great language for descriptive and kind of amusing compound nouns like that. Diarrhea is Durchfall, or "through-fall". 
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Nov 10, 2014 16:48
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I didn't "figure this out" but it was on a list of random trivia someone forwarded to me this morning. Bananas don't grow on trees, they grown on giant herbs.
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Nov 10, 2014 16:49
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McPhearson posted:My favorite is the Spanish word for peacock, pavo real, which means royal turkey. Even more interesting, the Latin word pavo meant "peacock". What probably happened is when the Spaniards came to the New World, they found this new bird that looked vaguely like a peacock, so they called it "pavo". Then when peacocks became known in the Americas they had to call them something else.
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Silent Linguist posted:Even more interesting, the Latin word pavo meant "peacock". What probably happened is when the Spaniards came to the New World, they found this new bird that looked vaguely like a peacock, so they called it "pavo". Then when peacocks became known in the Americas they had to call them something else. Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba1-2Tymbu0
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fullroundaction posted:I didn't "figure this out" but it was on a list of random trivia someone forwarded to me this morning. I mean...this is technically true, but not in the way most people are going to think it is. Botanically, herb has a strict meaning. From wikipedia: quote:A herbaceous plant (in American botanical use simply herb) is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground. So when someone says a banana plant is an herb, they're referring to this. It has absolutely no relation to culinary herbs like mint, oregano, etc..., which is just a loose culinary term for plants who's leaves are used for flavor.
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I never really paid much attention to Shakira, and I'd been assuming she was dead for... years, probably. When I'd hear of her doing something, or some new song she came out with, I'd be like "oh dope" but then in the back of my mind I'd be like "man it's sad when talent dies young" My wife's been (rightfully) giving me poo poo since we both realized how dumb I was last week
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Nov 10, 2014 18:43
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The word "Pattern" is descended from the same root word (Pater) as "Father," "Jupiter," "Patron," "Patriarch," ect.
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Jaramin posted:The word "Pattern" is descended from the same root word (Pater) as "Father," "Jupiter," "Patron," "Patriarch," ect. Minor quibble, but "father" doesn't descend from "pater". They share a common ancestor.
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Nov 10, 2014 18:57
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DrBouvenstein posted:I mean...this is technically true, but not in the way most people are going to think it is. Yes, no poo poo (to all of this).
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CAT rear end now!!! posted:"Kuukausi", the Finnish word for "month", is made up of the words "kuu" for "moon" and "kausi" for "season" or "period". The word literally means "moon period". Which is what months are. My fiancé is Finnish, every time she teaches me new words she surprises herself by realising what they mean in English. My favourite is the word for 'dragon', which translates roughly as 'salmon snake'. It's a fun language.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I never really paid much attention to Shakira, and I'd been assuming she was dead for... years, probably. When I'd hear of her doing something, or some new song she came out with, I'd be like "oh dope" but then in the back of my mind I'd be like "man it's sad when talent dies young" Did you think she was undead or something? That reminds me, one of my friends thought Shakira was black. She was thinking of Rihanna.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I never really paid much attention to Shakira, and I'd been assuming she was dead for... years, probably. When I'd hear of her doing something, or some new song she came out with, I'd be like "oh dope" but then in the back of my mind I'd be like "man it's sad when talent dies young" Were you mixing her up with Aaliyah? Henchman of Santa posted:Did you think she was undead or something? Which makes this even more pertinent as she starred as the vampire in Queen of the Damned just before she died and it was released posthumously.
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Nov 11, 2014 02:58
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Bertrand Hustle posted:In German, gloves are Handschuhe. Literally hand shoes. German is really a great language for descriptive and kind of amusing compound nouns like that. Diarrhea is Durchfall, or "through-fall". I love German. Shield-toads.
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Nov 11, 2014 05:17
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Helith posted:Were you mixing her up with Aaliyah? Yes and no. Like, I always knew it was Aaliyah who died in the plane crash specifically. But just in simply being dead, yeah I think so. And I didn't think she was undead, I just never put any thought into it and either assumed it was a song recorded before she died or she was doing a Tupac or whatever, I dunno it was pretty dumb
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Nov 11, 2014 05:41
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Creature posted:My fiancé is Finnish, every time she teaches me new words she surprises herself by realising what they mean in English. My favourite is the word for 'dragon', which translates roughly as 'salmon snake'. It's a fun language. Heh, yeah, that's what it'd ("lohikäärme", "lohi" = salmon and "käärme" = snake) literally translate to. I've always liked the image of that. Etymologically the word doesn't have anything to do with salmons, though (unfortunately?), and the "lohi" bit comes from somewhere else.
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It is reassuring to know that goons are always wrong about etymologies even when they are speaking in foreign languages.
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Jedit posted:It is reassuring to know that goons are always wrong.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Yes and no. Like, I always knew it was Aaliyah who died in the plane crash specifically. But just in simply being dead, yeah I think so. Tupac is alive, though.
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sassassin posted:Tupac is alive, though. sassassin, sweetie, we've been over this. That was a hologram.
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Nov 11, 2014 16:05
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There are fish that, if you eat them, you get hallucinations. Fish.
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Phy posted:There are fish that, if you eat them, you get hallucinations. Fish. Fish have had the longest to develop bizarre poisons evolution-wise so it doesn't surprise me.
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Phy posted:There are fish that, if you eat them, you get hallucinations. Fish. Which ones?
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Lick a toad, eat a fish... What other animals can I get high from?
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mng posted:Lick a toad, eat a fish... What other animals can I get high from? Lick a slug and your tongue will go numb
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I just realized that rankings for playing card suits are different everywhere. I thought it was the same everywhere; I never questioned it or researched it. My whole life, I've ranked the suits strongest to weakest as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs. This was pretty much universal throughout my whole southern California school life, too, and everybody played it this way, especially during high school when the year ends and everybody just busts out packs of cards and plays pusoy dos because we've all finished our finals. Looking it up online, not only is it different everywhere, but nobody seems to be familiar with the ranking I've been using where I live now.
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Yoshi Jjang posted:I just realized that rankings for playing card suits are different everywhere. I thought it was the same everywhere; I never questioned it or researched it. My whole life, I've ranked the suits strongest to weakest as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs. This was pretty much universal throughout my whole southern California school life, too, and everybody played it this way, especially during high school when the year ends and everybody just busts out packs of cards and plays pusoy dos because we've all finished our finals. I grew up in the Midwest and it was always spades-hearts-diamonds-clubs.
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I just figured out that card suits have power levels apparently. I've never had that issue come up while playing any card game, though it's not like I'm a professional poker player or anything.
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Nov 11, 2014 23:31
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Yoshi Jjang posted:I just realized that rankings for playing card suits are different everywhere. I thought it was the same everywhere; I never questioned it or researched it. My whole life, I've ranked the suits strongest to weakest as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs. This was pretty much universal throughout my whole southern California school life, too, and everybody played it this way, especially during high school when the year ends and everybody just busts out packs of cards and plays pusoy dos because we've all finished our finals. Any ranking where the Ace of Spades isn't the highest ranked card is objectively wrong.
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Nov 11, 2014 23:32
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Yoshi Jjang posted:I just realized that rankings for playing card suits are different everywhere. I thought it was the same everywhere; I never questioned it or researched it. My whole life, I've ranked the suits strongest to weakest as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs. This was pretty much universal throughout my whole southern California school life, too, and everybody played it this way, especially during high school when the year ends and everybody just busts out packs of cards and plays pusoy dos because we've all finished our finals. It also depends on the game. The traditional Spades>Hearts>Diamonds>Clubs ranking is what's used in Bridge, and something that I thought was fairly universal.
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Wait till you realize that there are other suits than the French one.
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None of that matters in euchre, God's one true card game.
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EXAKT Science posted:It also depends on the game. The traditional Spades>Hearts>Diamonds>Clubs ranking is what's used in Bridge, and something that I thought was fairly universal. And then when you're playing 500, which is a derivative of Euchre and Bridge, for some reason it goes Hearts>Diamonds>Clubs>Spades. I've never played Bridge, and I thought it was universal as well.
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I look at the column on bridge when I read the paper and it seems to be completely unfathomable gibberish.
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