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Inceltown posted:Brie Larson is not Alison Brie. Don't worry, this one took me a minute too. (This may not be reassuring, as probably 80% of my posts in here are me being confused by actors.)
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Inceltown posted:There is also basically nothing but ocean between Antarctica and Iceland. The oceans are absurdly large. You can't even get an idea of how big they are by standing on the shore and looking out over them. They're huge.
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Samovar posted:Check this out: My favourite Swedish word is blandband which means "mixtape".
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Don't worry, this one took me a minute too. (This may not be reassuring, as probably 80% of my posts in here are me being confused by actors.) Two of the same types of cheese that both starred in Community is too confusing. Today I just learned how the Koch family got started https://twitter.com/beccalew/status/1164967949565739009
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FreudianSlippers posted:My favourite Swedish word is blandband which means "mixtape". Which is a calque aka a loan translation. The parts are translated and combined again to become a new word/expression: Bland (mixed like in blended) + band (strip/tape/string like in bound/bind) some other calques: - English "flea market" from French marché aux puces (market with fleas, because of the ratty old clothes etc). - Danish "børnehave" from German Kindergarten (child's garden, the English is a plain old loanword) - Danish "udelukkende" from Latin ex-clusive ("out-closing/out-shutting", literally leaving it outside) - English "beer garden" from German Biergarten (you get it) Once you start to look, there's a whole lot to be found. Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 00:28 on Aug 24, 2019 |
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Inceltown posted:Two of the same types of cheese that both starred in Community is too confusing. Fred Koch also built refineries for the Soviets. He apparently regretted it after Stalin purged many of the engineers Koch trained 
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That's called not wanting to be on the losing side
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Milo and POTUS posted:That's called not wanting to be on the losing side its called many things but its name is collaborating.
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Krankenstyle posted:Which is a calque aka a loan translation. The parts are translated and combined again to become a new word/expression: Bland (mixed like in blended) + band (strip/tape/string like in bound/bind) English "long time no see" from Chinese 好久不见 hao jiu bu jian, word for word "good long [time] not see", which is perfectly fine, grammatically correct Chinese and I think made its way to English via pidgin spoken by Chinese migrant laborers in the 19th? century. There are a few others from Chinese: Look-see from 看见 kan jian, fairly standard grammatical structure in Chinese, hard to explain but 见 (see) is a complement to the verb 看 (look) indicating the result. If you are looking for something but you don't see it, you insert 不 bu (not): 看不见 is literally look-not-see. There are a bunch of verbs you can do this with. 听懂 ting dong means to understand what you are hearing. If you stick a 不 in there, you get 听不懂 ting bu dong, which means "don't understand", specifically for spoken language. Note: romanized words are standard Mandarin pronunciation, minus tone marks because I don't know how to do that on my phone. In looking this up, I just learned that "brainwashing" came from Chinese: Wikipedia posted:The Chinese term xǐnăo (洗脑，literally "wash brain") was originally used to describe the coercive persuasion used under the Maoist government in China, which aimed to transform "reactionary" people into "right-thinking" members of the new Chinese social system. The term punned on the Taoist custom of "cleansing / washing the heart / mind" (xǐxīn，洗心) before conducting ceremonies or entering holy places. Bit of history behind that term.
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In a lieu of a dedicated mondegreen thread: I now know the line is "weak are ripped and torn away", but I still keep thinking it's "we gon' rip the dawn away". e: Should I post a mondegreen thread? y/n Hyperlynx has a new favorite as of 15:50 on Aug 24, 2019 |
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Hyperlynx posted:In a lieu of a dedicated mondegreen thread: I now know the line is "weak are ripped and torn away", but I still keep thinking it's "we gon' rip the dawn away". Maybe you should identify the song for all those other people who don't know the obvious song you're talking about.
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Beachcomber posted:Maybe you should identify the song for all those other people who don't know the obvious song you're talking about. Battery by Metallica
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Memento posted:Battery by Metallica Which correctly popped up in the recent ‘songs that don’t quite live up to their amazing intros’ thread.
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I've watched the intro to X-Men The Animated Series hundreds of times. But it took me until today to realise that when Beast is introduced his name has the word 'The' next to it, so it's 'The Beast' rather than just 'Beast'.
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Torquemada posted:Which correctly popped up in the recent ‘songs that don’t quite live up to their amazing intros’ thread.  Battery owns
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Recently noticed almost all of my t-shirts have an interior tag near the bottom on the left side, which makes it easy to never put them on backwards again.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:
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Eclipse12 posted:Recently noticed almost all of my t-shirts have an interior tag near the bottom on the left side, which makes it easy to never put them on backwards again. I've been using that for years. It is an embarrassment saver. Although sometimes I put a shirt on inside our and backwards instead.
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Just found out you can use smilies from the SA app in texts to friends on my iphone. i love it when my goon life and my real life intertwine.
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Aleph Null posted:I've been using that for years. It is an embarrassment saver. Although sometimes I put a shirt on inside our and backwards instead. Sometimes I just put my t-shirt on backwards and wear it that way all day on purpose because gently caress your rules.
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My Shoes posted:Just found out you can use smilies from the SA app in texts to friends on my iphone. i love it when my goon life and my real life intertwine. How?
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I only know it works with iphone but if you have the awful app and you go to write a text, the awful app icon will pop up in your scroll bar below the line where you type your text (along with all other applicable apps like youtube, photos, itunes, etc). If you just click on that awful app icon there all the smilies pop up. 
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You can’t really add them directly to texts though, they’re posted individually. Unless there’s something I’m doing wrong?
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:You can’t really add them directly to texts though, they’re posted individually. Unless there’s something I’m doing wrong? You have to add the smilie first and then type the text. You can't add after you type text from what I can tell.
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christmas boots posted:But can I add them to tweets? What? This social media fad is still going on?
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My Shoes posted:I only know it works with iphone but if you have the awful app and you go to write a text, the awful app icon will pop up in your scroll bar below the line where you type your text (along with all other applicable apps like youtube, photos, itunes, etc). If you just click on that awful app icon there all the smilies pop up. Rats, doesn't work on android.
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Patrick Spens posted:Rats, doesn't work on android. sorry dude
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Liza Minnelli is Judy Garland's daughter.
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Jerry Cotton posted:This guy is not wearing a black shirt tucked into white trousers, with a tan belt: This guy is not wearing a black crop top and high waisted white pants
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bell jar posted:This guy is not wearing a black crop top and high waisted white pants Wait then what in all the hecks is he wearing 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Wait then what in all the hecks is he wearing 3 tone polo, or possibly a dress
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My Shoes posted:I only know it works with iphone but if you have the awful app and you go to write a text, the awful app icon will pop up in your scroll bar below the line where you type your text (along with all other applicable apps like youtube, photos, itunes, etc). If you just click on that awful app icon there all the smilies pop up. I just did this and holy gently caress thank you. Now I can be an even bigger weirdo to all my coworkers and friends.
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IIRC people not using iOS won't see them at all, which can kind of inadvertently change the tone of your text messages.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:IIRC people not using iOS won't see them at all, which can kind of inadvertently change the tone of your text messages. Loaming at the idea of conversing with people who use ITunes.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Loaming at the idea of conversing with people who use ITunes. please do jerry, the earth needs it
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I don't think they're sent as the same way an emoji is. They're just sent as a .jpg or whatever just like if you were to send a photo.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:IIRC people not using iOS won't see them at all, which can kind of inadvertently change the tone of your text messages. From my understanding if you aren't using iMessage you aren't worth talking to
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Dr Christmas posted:Liza Minnelli is Judy Garland's daughter. Now go and listen to Loudon Wainright's song Liza.
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