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Magnus Manfist posted:Isn't the word for panda "cat-face bear" or something? Do they just modify nouns by making them more or less cat? It's a bearcat. Chinese only goes back to older versions of Chinese and doesn't have the lineage most languages spoken today have where everything intermingled 18 ways, like how English goes back to German and French which goes back to Latin and Greek and blah blah blah... so everything ends up being very direct. Some quick examples off the top of my head cuz I think it's fun: Giraffe: Long Neck Deer Dolphin: Sea Pig Caterpillar: Furry Worm Kangaroo: Pocket Mouse Raccoon: Washing Bear Zebra: Striped Horse Platypus: Duck mouth creature Porcupine: Arrow Pig
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The best part of owl cafes is the list of rules that also warns you "bird may take a poo poo."
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Sep 4, 2017 14:39
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French for bat translates to "bald mouse", which makes way more sense than those silly Germans and their "flying mouse" 
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loving Sea Pig. That's great.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:French for bat translates to "bald mouse", which makes way more sense than those silly Germans and their "flying mouse" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l2Y6Z-maAU
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Sep 4, 2017 14:57
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People are still losing their minds over Colin Kaepernick.
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Sep 4, 2017 15:02
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I like "Our PATRIOTS (not New England)"
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Azzur posted:Hey, I live in Japan and just got back from an Owl Cafe in Sendai. Sympathy owls. Victory
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Sep 4, 2017 15:07
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Slime posted:A lot of languages just name an animal modifier-other animal. Like the welsh word for rat translates back as 'big mouse'. Can't talk about West without our slang word for microwave, which is popty ping. 'The machine that goes ping'.
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Sep 4, 2017 15:18
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EL BROMANCE posted:Can't talk about West without our slang word for microwave, which is popty ping. 'The machine that goes ping'. If you have one that goes beep instead, do you need to call it something else?
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bean_shadow posted:People are still losing their minds over Colin Kaepernick. Isn't he not even playing any more? Didn't get signed to a team?
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bean_shadow posted:People are still losing their minds over Colin Kaepernick. "Do you think NASCAR folks would tolerate this poo poo?" Ah, yes, NASCAR fans. The gold standard on how to behave acceptably.
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bean_shadow posted:People are still losing their minds over Colin Kaepernick. You'd think, from the reaction, that the unity of the country relies on the very flimsy premise that professional football players don't kneel during the national anthem. Oh, now that Kaepernick done it, America is ruined, this great country is no more, woe is US. Be more patriotic, the greatest country on Earth can definitely handle a protest or two.
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Prism posted:If you have one that goes beep instead, do you need to call it something else? I have no clue! I also have no idea how you would talk about a mouse that was unusually large for a mouse. Everyone would think you're talking about a rat, but no, you're literally talking about a big mouse. we also call badgers earth pigs edit: and a tadpole is a 'ball head' it can also be translated as knobhead which is hilarious Slime has a new favorite as of 15:33 on Sep 4, 2017 |
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Sep 4, 2017 15:29
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Prism posted:If you have one that goes beep instead, do you need to call it something else? You have to buy a new popty ping.
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The weirdest thing is that he didn't even just sit down or dance a little jig while giving the whole stadium the middle finger. He knelt. Which is still a very loving respectful thing to do. Magna Kaser posted:It's a bearcat. I mean the German language for all its age uses more or less the same for racoon, platypus and porcupine.
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Sep 4, 2017 15:32
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What really rankles me is that Kapeenick says "there's some stuff about America that isn't great, and maybe we should fix that?" and people say he should be fired, fined, arrested, deported, shot. Donald Trump says "there's some stuff about America that isn't great, and maybe we should fix that" and he gets told "congrats, you are now the president"
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jivjov posted:What really rankles me is that Kapeenick says "there's some stuff about America that isn't great, and maybe we should fix that?" and people say he should be fired, fined, arrested, deported, shot. Well one means white people might not be the best and the other means non-white people should be "removed" from the country, white people gasp and faint when they think they might not be the best so that's the one that they get upset at.
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My brother's girlfriend is from Turkey and didn't know what a toad was. They call it a land frog.
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Arcsquad12 posted:My brother's girlfriend is from Turkey and didn't know what a toad was. They call it a land frog. "A garage? A garaaaage? Well, la-dee-da, Mr. Frenchman!" "What do you call it?" "A car hold" That comment about how "I bet these players kneeling don't have family that served," as if there aren't a ton of players that grew up poor. Hell, they probably know MORE people!
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Sep 4, 2017 16:00
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Loving your country means being willing to criticize it and make it a better country. These 'patriots' don't love their country, they just want to be seen to love it.
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Boywhiz88 posted:"A garage? A garaaaage? Well, la-dee-da, Mr. Frenchman!" he says car hole ya idiot
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Fathis Munk posted:The weirdest thing is that he didn't even just sit down or dance a little jig while giving the whole stadium the middle finger. He knelt. Which is still a very loving respectful thing to do. Football is basically a second religion in a lot of places, as well as a sort of escapism for people with your garden variety lovely life. People get really, really pissed when you bring upsetting things into their escapism. (See: the bizarre responses to "hey maybe depicting ladies in video games as rewards and eye candy is not the best plan ever?") Like it's an extremely lovely response, but it's understandable.
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The rant wreaks of "It's not my problem to stop bringing it up!" because I bet you he goes on regular rants about immigrants or whatever white people complain about these days. (I'm white and I have no idea)
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Sep 4, 2017 16:20
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EL BROMANCE posted:Can't talk about West without our slang word for microwave, which is popty ping. 'The machine that goes ping'. My favorite is still the Icelandic word for "computer", which is tölva - a portmanteau that means "number witch".
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Sep 4, 2017 16:23
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I knew an idiot in real life who didn't know what an otter was. He called them "diving beaver things".
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EL BROMANCE posted:Can't talk about West without our slang word for microwave, which is popty ping. 'The machine that goes ping'. Microwaves? Oh, you mean science ovens? I wish people really called them that.
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Slime posted:I have no clue! I also have no idea how you would talk about a mouse that was unusually large for a mouse. Everyone would think you're talking about a rat, but no, you're literally talking about a big mouse. A big mouse is a rat; there's no taxonomic difference between rat and mouse.
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Slime posted:I have no clue! I also have no idea how you would talk about a mouse that was unusually large for a mouse. Everyone would think you're talking about a rat, but no, you're literally talking about a big mouse. In Irish the word for squid is mother of suck. Possibly mother sucker if you prefer. Jelly fish are seal snot too.
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Old Newfoundlanders call sea urchins "whores' eggs"  Magna Kaser posted:Dolphin: Sea Pig Can't speak for the others but these two are common in other languages too. there wolf posted:A big mouse is a rat; there's no taxonomic difference between rat and mouse. They're from different genera 
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MizPiz posted:I'm going to be very disappointed if THIS isn't included in the next Yakuza game This is the Vice-iest headline I have ever seen in my life. It almost reads like a parody. If there is one thing I associate with manliness, it's peeing into a cartoon animals mouth.
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Grown men have difficulty aiming in a urinal, have fun always cleaning your toddler's piss all over the bathroom.
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here's an idiot on social media https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan/status/904008582290710528
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Mak0rz posted:They're from different genera I live in a place where people call opossums, "foxes". I have no clue WHY that happens.
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davidspackage posted:have fun always cleaning your toddler's piss all over the bathroom. From what I hear that's normal regardless of what urine receptacle you use.
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Would "Real men use urinals and pussies sit" an adequate example of Toxic Masculinity? Cause it sure feels like it.
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Mak0rz posted:Can't speak for the others but these two are common in other languages too. For whatever reason, I decided to look around at raccoon etymology, and it seems like cultures that were doing a lot of colonialism in the Americas adopted local terminology and other languages translated the old taxonomic name. Washbear comes from ursus lotor, which is how Carl Linnaeus classified them in his taxonomy. Meanwhile, raccoon is adapted from Powhatan. The French term raton-laveur means little washer rat, which doesn't make sense, except that raton sounds kinda/sorta like raccoon and I guess the washer part was added later. Spanish has mapache, which comes from Nahuatl, and Portuguese has guaxinim from Tupi. I'm not a linguist though and the Italian term is procione, which is just the current genus name, so I dunno.
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orange sky posted:here's an idiot on social media From the comments  I love how these assholes are all now using the term "conquered" when referring to America. Like, when being called out that we are all immigrants they double down on being even bigger assholes. None of these pussies have conquered poo poo.
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ThePlague-Daemon posted:For whatever reason, I decided to look around at raccoon etymology, and it seems like cultures that were doing a lot of colonialism in the Americas adopted local terminology and other languages translated the old taxonomic name. Washbear comes from ursus lotor, which is how Carl Linnaeus classified them in his taxonomy. Meanwhile, raccoon is adapted from Powhatan. The French term raton-laveur means little washer rat, which doesn't make sense, except that raton sounds kinda/sorta like raccoon and I guess the washer part was added later. Spanish has mapache, which comes from Nahuatl, and Portuguese has guaxinim from Tupi. You can play around with the consonant roots of words in Hebrew, so you'll find a lot of names for animals that are weird variations on the name of a similar-looking animal. So Raccoon is דביבון = dvivon, where bear is דב = dov. Similarly, Jays are all types of עורבני = orvani, where crow is עורב=orev.
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