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Trabant posted:Oregon + Idaho = Oreida, aka the cheapo potato products company. Oh duh. Well now I know the definitive way to pronounce that I guess. Also, thanks to RedLetterMedia I just learned that that company actually owns the trademark on "tater tots".
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Sir Lemming posted:Oh duh. Well now I know the definitive way to pronounce that I guess. Don't forget the hyphen stylistically represents a dental click
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I am definitely goysplaining here but mensch means man.
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Hyperlynx posted:It'd have to be :----------------*: but I don't see why not. You can of course speak on the social conservatism and patriarchal bent of the Orthodox far better than I so I will defer, but I can't see it not being relevant (also maybe drift from the German root of the word in Slavic regions?) And just as an aside for the people in the thread who obviously don't know, Conservative Judaism is, despite the name, is one of those more progressive denominations, among other things, having ordained its first female rabbi only 13 years after Reform Judaism. Also Orthodox is not a synonym for, say, Hasidic. There are a lot of different denominations under the Orthodox umbrella
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Ellie Trashcakes posted:Shut the gently caress up, Donnie I deserve this. Sorry, Ellie and all readers of my awful posts. I'll just spread my own ashes over the coast.
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Mensch as an expression meaning a good person, someone who goes beyond for other people solely out of humanity, is a thing in Swedish still if a bit old sounding. You'll encounter it in older texts but sometimes also in daily speech among certain folks. Oh, and it has no implied gender traditionally - a good person is a good person is a true mensch. E. It is also very clearly a direct loan from Yiddish to Swedish, no etymological doubt there ThisIsJohnWayne has a new favorite as of 17:58 on Nov 1, 2021 |
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Are you talking about mänska? I'm pretty sure (thread title notwithstanding) that's an abbreviation of människa, which is an Old Swedish word (13th-15th century).
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Both are probably from the same Germanic root.
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It's originally a Germanic word, manniskaz. Yiddish is, as far as I understand it, a hybrid of Hebrew and German, so it makes sense.
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The Icelandic for human is manneskja and as far as I can acertain first appears in writing in the late 16th century.
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cf. Danish menneske with same Proto-Germanic etymology and meaning
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Mr Meeseeks has the same etymology
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Nope, sweden has the expression mensch (with that spelling) alongside the languages word for human (människa in this case) like every other socioculture who has the expression in common* use *common as you'll hear it from old people with pretences to cultural elitism or whatever, a random teenager won't be saying it or likely ever even heard it. Did I mention it sounds old here? Anyway, yiddish has left random artefacts in (formerly standard usage) swedish was my point
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I've just had my mind blown by my flatmate, most cars are front wheel drive? Including mine?? Why, my entire life have I assumed that rear wheel drive was the default, and front wheel drive was the weird thing fancy sports cars did and not the other way around? I mean it makes sense, not having to bring the power from the engine at the front to the wheels at the back. Maybe it was videogames? I swear whenever I flip a 2WD in a GTA game and I run the accelerator, it's always the rear wheels that spin. Meanwhile I've yet to flip a car IRL so I haven't had the opportunity to see. Beartaco has a new favorite as of 09:48 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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A remake of David Cronenberg's Crash, but it's just a guy getting into horrific car wrecks to check out which way the wheels spin
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Nope, sweden has the expression mensch (with that spelling) alongside the languages word for human (människa in this case) like every other socioculture who has the expression in common* use I don't doubt that people use it, but I would assume that if it was considered part of the Swedish language or in widespread use at some point, it'd show up in SAOB or Språkbanken. Perhaps it was only ever used in spoken language?  https://spraakbanken.gu.se/korp/ https://www.saob.se For comparison, Scandoromani words are present: https://www.saob.se/artikel/?unik=V_1341-0023.dJ77&pz=3 (see etymology) e: just noticed your emphasis there, I guess you're saying that it is used in Sweden but is not Swedish. fwiw i also use "mensch" sometimes lol Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 10:38 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Beartaco posted:I've just had my mind blown by my flatmate, most cars are front wheel drive? Including mine?? Why, my entire life have I assumed that rear wheel drive was the default, and front wheel drive was the weird thing fancy sports cars did and not the other way around? I mean it makes sense, not having to bring the power from the engine at the front to the wheels at the back. Yep I had a similar moment when I was in my early teens, couldn't comprehend how to transmit power through a joint like that Thought it just made sense power through the back steering on the front
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Turns out it's heavier*, more technical† and less efficientǂ to power cars through the rear wheels as compared to the front. You also get more room inside the car due to no transmission hump and more room in the trunk due to not having to have a diff back there. *extra driveshaft length needed †turning the drive through 90 degrees requires a more involved manufacturing process ǂgotta spin all that extra weight and you also lose more power through the 90° turn
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Carthag Tuek posted:I don't doubt that people use it, but I would assume that if it was considered part of the Swedish language or in widespread use at some point, it'd show up in SAOB or Språkbanken. Perhaps it was only ever used in spoken language? Ok so I’ve used mensch while speaking English to Swedes but not speaking Swedish, and I figured they’d have never heard of it. Now I feel no guilt in overhearing my incredibly Nordic partner call someone a schnook. Or introducing him to brisket. I’m goy as the day is long, however I am unfortunately a long islander, so I’ve always used some phrases and terms from it just being around me a lot? There’s some horrendous Italian American poo poo mixed in there too. Anyway don’t ever get me drunk, I sound like a screeching train wreck.
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teen witch posted:Anyway don’t ever get me drunk, I sound like a screeching train wreck. Aah, a German. Or vampire, one or the other ThisIsJohnWayne has a new favorite as of 16:23 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Beartaco posted:I've just had my mind blown by my flatmate, most cars are front wheel drive? Including mine?? Why, my entire life have I assumed that rear wheel drive was the default, and front wheel drive was the weird thing fancy sports cars did and not the other way around? I mean it makes sense, not having to bring the power from the engine at the front to the wheels at the back. Rear wheel drive cars have to have a tunnel for the driveshaft. It makes the middle seat extra awful. Not that this is the reason to go FWD, but you’ll know when you’re in a RWD car.
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Platystemon posted:Rear wheel drive cars have to have a tunnel for the driveshaft. It makes the middle seat extra awful.
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teen witch posted:Ok so I’ve used mensch while speaking English to Swedes but not speaking Swedish, and I figured they’d have never heard of it. Now I feel no guilt in overhearing my incredibly Nordic partner call someone a schnook. Or introducing him to brisket. Hell, it took me long enough to learn which "not English but my parents used them" words in my vocabulary are Yiddish and which are Afrikaans... Also, I'd never heard schnook before! I'd only heard of schmuck. Wikipedia tells me both are Yiddish and to Yiddish speakers "schmuck" is derogatory, even obscene. (we do need that "the more you know" smiley, eh?)
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Putting the engine weight over the drive wheels is also useful for traction
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Hyperlynx posted:Also, I'd never heard schnook before! I'd only heard of schmuck. Wikipedia tells me both are Yiddish and to Yiddish speakers "schmuck" is derogatory, even obscene. https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/53de2048-e5d2-401a-afe0-7610444e396a
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Mad Magazine used a schmuck a whole lot.
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Foxfire_ posted:Putting the engine weight over the drive wheels is also useful for traction However, there's an opposite effect, where the weight distribution of the car shifts rearwards under acceleration. Traction at the rear is increased and traction at the front is reduced. Also, splitting up the power and steering duties between front and back probably made more sense in the early to mid 20th because tire compounds were dogshit.
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Yeah it was a combination of getting the rubber tech and suspension geometry right, and figuring out how to deal with torque steer; some early front wheel drive cars are incredibly squirrelly especially with a bit of power. I drove a 1988 Mazda 323 GTX Turbo for a while, that was making about 240hp, and if you wanted, you could change lanes on the highway by pressing the accelerator.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Mad Magazine used a schmuck a whole lot. Cracked used to be a magazine 
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The Mighty Moltres posted:Cracked used to be a magazine Cracked was a great website too. quote:In 2007, Cracked had a few hundred thousand unique users per month and 3 to 4 million page views.[4] Writers included Cody Johnston who currently does a show that is something I like. I'm a lefty whatever. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng And Seanbaby who, you may remember from the MMA craze of whenever. https://www.cracked.com/blog/worst-life-ever-the-story-of-kazuyuki-fujitas-skull But in spite of how most SA users will spit fire at Seanbaby there was a good team of people saying things in list form that were interesting.
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Ex-cracked writer Micheal Swain's small beans podcast network as a good podcast to follow and dip in when you see a piece of media you like
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teen witch posted:Anyway don’t ever get me drunk, I sound like a screeching train wreck. I assumed you sounded like that sober, too! ... sorry
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Your eyes have a conduit to your mouth, as evidenced by the possibility of eyedrops sometimes working their way down to your tastebuds. I suppose I might've worked that out if I'd ever thought deeply about it, but it was still a surprise.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:Cracked used to be a magazine Steve Ditko used to draw for Cracked.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Your eyes have a conduit to your mouth, as evidenced by the possibility of eyedrops sometimes working their way down to your tastebuds. The sinuses are everywhere in your facebones
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Captain Hygiene posted:Your eyes have a conduit to your mouth, as evidenced by the possibility of eyedrops sometimes working their way down to your tastebuds. I found this out after getting lasik surgery. The drops they prescribed were disgusting.
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oh dope posted:I found this out after getting lasik surgery. The drops they prescribed were disgusting. Also when you get those orange fluorescein eye drops and your snot runs orange. Plus the way everytime someone cries they get a runny nose
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"And what say you, Covet-thee-not Savage?" "Well James, I believe that we can call the presence of witches in the town of Andover as 'Plausible'"
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