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Edgar Allen Ho posted:kazakh has "kannibal" and also "adam jegish" which literally means man-eater. I figure that some version of "dude what eats dudes" is probably the original term in most languages. Russian would have kanibal and lyudoyed which is... people-eater. Ukrainian has lyudojid and also lyudojer and lyudojererz which is a people eater using an alternative root for eat. Apparently some people also get all fancy and use variants on antropophage, which I suspect is roughly the same thing from Greek.
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OddObserver posted:Apparently some people also get all fancy and use variants on antropophage, which I suspect is roughly the same thing from Greek. It is.
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But only a child born to a reigning emperor is allowed to be a purple people eater.
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Sep 27, 2023 22:47
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A porphyranthropophage.
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Sep 27, 2023 22:57
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Countries will do anything but just have actual one person one vote democracy. "But but but what about wealthy rural landowners?? Shouldn't they get like 100 votes so those drat urban factory workers don't overpower them??"
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Most Westminster systems also used to have university constituencies. So major universities would get to have their own MPs. I think these are mostly abolished at the same time as the multi member constituencies. Ireland, OTOH, still kept them for the Senead, where they’re notable for having an independent streak. The problem of that streak is that one of the university senators is a pro-life dork who literally looks like the long lost twin of Will from the Inbetweeners.  Man clearly wasn’t swirlied enough at school.
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That's clearly the atlantic species of whatever michael gove is.
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Suggestion for perfect political sytem You should only be able to become a senator by killing and eating a reigning senator. If you eat a senator you did not personally kill, such as by grave robbing a long dead senator or pouncing on a senator who has died from natural causes, you only become a congressman. If you kill and eat 10 nonconsecutive congressmen you level up to senator. If a senator eats another senator he takes over his fiefdom. If a senator manages to eat all other senators he becomes God-King and is torn to pieces and eaten by the hoi polloi in a special feast in Des Moines. Each of these positions is for life but Cannibalocracy ensures that that life is short and ends painfully and messily.
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I support the open trading and selling of votes. You sell your vote to a vote broker, who in turn sells their blocks of votes to whichever candidate pays them the most money. This in turn will lead to the issuance of iron-clad vote-backed securities, which will also be traded in some sort of exchange, mostly run by algorithms. The rich will get richer, the system will become more broken, unequal, dysfunctional, and fascist, but every American will get some sort of cash payment every year, depending on how significant the election is. This is the only actual path to UBI in the American system
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Blut posted:That uniformity is really interesting. I wonder if because its such a universally despised concept did it originate in some hunter-gatherer Indo-European language before humans spread to Europe and never subsequently evolve. OwlFancier posted:Previously people would have used other words for it but then everyone decided to use a corruptuion of "caribales" i.e the people who lived in the caribbean but spain-ified, a few hundred years ago, because everyone loves to blame the horrible foreigners for things. Yep menneskeæder (da) menneskeeter (no) människoätare (se) Menschenfresser (de) etc French seems to have used anthropophage (it's in the first ed. of the academy's dictionary from 1694, whereas cannibale doesn't show up until 4th ed. in 1762), which is of course Greek for the same thing.
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Carthag Tuek posted:Yep Yeah, I was going to post this from the Norwegian perspective. Menneskeeter is used interchangeably with kannibal, except the latter term also applies to animals of other species eating their own, as well as things like the honored practice of cannibalizing a machine for spare parts, etc. Icelandic is special because their authorities have spent many decades frowning really hard on importing loanwords and made a lot of effort to promote native Icelandic words (including neologisms, which this obviously is not) instead.
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Apparently last night on the US Republican debate, Ron DeSantis said he's going to send the US military "into Mexico" to "solve drugs" so we might just make that war on drugs map reality yet
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Actually it's ihmissyöjä (unless it's not human).
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Apparently last night on the US Republican debate, Ron DeSantis said he's going to send the US military "into Mexico" to "solve drugs" so we might just make that war on drugs map reality yet The U.S. keeps declaring wars on ideas. It’s time that the ideas fought back. BREAKING NEWS: Cancer sends armaments to Drugs in war against U.S. aggressor
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In Scotland it's common for alphabetised lists of names to have their own heading for Mc/Mac, so looking forward to our Letter Government having its own giant constituency for that. Key target seat for the SNP, one would imagine
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Reminds me of McDonald's attempting to sue Supermac's, arguing that they had the idea of using Mac in relation to fast food meat products first, and that this is trademarkable. They decided to do this in Ireland so the judicial opinion was 'lol, lmao, get to gently caress'.
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Guavanaut posted:Reminds me of McDonald's attempting to sue Supermac's, arguing that they had the idea of using Mac in relation to fast food meat products first, and that this is trademarkable.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Actually it's ihmissyöjä (unless it's not human). For those of you who haven't taken half a semester of Finnish (  ), this is just man eater, but with knife and vodka implied
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Hunger is hunger; but the hunger that is satisfied by cooked man eaten with a knife and vodka differs from hunger that devours raw men with the help of hands, nails and teeth.
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 Solve for drugs
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Angepain posted:In Scotland it's common for alphabetised lists of names to have their own heading for Mc/Mac, so looking forward to our Letter Government having its own giant constituency for that. Key target seat for the SNP, one would imagine That's how it used to work in the US too. In my experience that pretty much died out with the widespread introduction of computers since nobody wants to manually alphabetize anymore (for good reason).
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Danish phonebooks and directories used to be sorted by surname, title, first initials until the late 1960s or so real pain in the rear end to look up people when you're not exactly sure what their job is
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Carthag Tuek posted:Danish phonebooks and directories used to be sorted by surname, title, first initials until the late 1960s or so People using titles is weird and you monarchies should stop Also, one of my "friends" is technically a Countess in Russia, and she insists on being called Countess X Xevna X instead of just her name First of all, in the US of A we don't have noble titles, you set that aside if you become a US citizen stop pretending, second of all Russia kinda did away with all that a hundred years ago, third of all why do we put up with this because I still address her as Countess what the gently caress is wrong with me
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:People using titles is weird and you monarchies should stop i mean we did stop, back in the 60s i guess youre supposed to address the royal family by their titles, and politicians address each other as Mr(s). Title Surname in parliament, but literally nobody cares in real life
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:People using titles is weird and you monarchies should stop Noted monarchies USA, Switzerland and Germany.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Noted monarchies USA, Switzerland and Germany.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:America is an elective monarchy. President RFK Jr. confirmed.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:President RFK Jr. confirmed.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:America is an elective monarchy. In two hundred years time undergrad History students will be answering exam questions of "The United States of America was neither United, Stately, or American. Discuss" alongside our current Holy Roman Empire "was neither Holy, Roman or an Empire" version.
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0/10 Dutchy of the Two Dakotas should be non-continuous with UPPER MISSOURI dividing it.
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so canada is the holy roman empire of america, bordering a mishmash of polities to its south
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One of the original suggestions for what to call the president was your majesty, but that has since been reserved for purple mountains instead.
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SlothfulCobra posted:One of the original suggestions for what to call the president was your majesty, but that has since been reserved for purple mountains instead. It was actually "His Elective Majesty" that almost got the official address. It was suggested by John Adams. Alexander Hamilton had the best suggestion: "His Highness, the President of the United States of America and the Protector of their Liberties"
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The whole point of elective monarchies is that a dynasty can't be sure that it's gonna retain the crown. Even if name recognition helps, see the Roosevelts and the Bushes All hail King Jimmy Carter I and his current dauphin and Lord Regent, Joe Biden I
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If the president has a doctorate, should you call them Dr President?
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BonHair posted:If the president has a doctorate, should you call them Dr President? Nope. You go by highest title achieved. President outranks doctor. President is also the only title that you officially can keep using after leaving office. Everyone else just has to use "Honorable" when they are former officeholder. I used to work with a former Ambassador who would insist that people address formal mail, letters, and business emails to them as "The Honorable X."
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But what about the times when you'd use "Mr President"? Also, allegedly, the Germans stack titles. I knew someone who got two different doctorates, and apparently she could be referred to as "doktor doktor lastname". I think we even found train tickets or something where that was an option for title.
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The current president of Iceland would be Doctor Professor Mister President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson in that German system. Most Icelanders would probably just address him as Guðni. Maybe Hr.Forseti (Mr. president) if they were in a really formal setting.
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BonHair posted:But what about the times when you'd use "Mr President"?
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