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$400,000 per month eh? Think I might have to get in on that
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quote:Character concept: wizard, terrible at casting spells, is secretly being steered by his rat familiar from under his pointy hat quote:Droid who's a dark jedi who can only do the force with his feet because his top half is a droid but his legs are Darth Maul's.
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"wer" in Old English means "man," so a werebear is a man who  On the other hand, in Proto-Germanic some thousands of years ago or something, the bear had a different name, but it was so fearsome an animal, people started euphemistically referring to it as "the brown one," which in Proto-Germanic was something like "bero", which also is related to the English word "brown." So maybe "werebear" just means "brown(-haired?) dude."
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if you used the word "manbrown" i would not think you were talking about an animal
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Doc Hawkins posted:if you used the word "manbrown" i would not think you were talking about an animal That's on you, pal
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I'm only reminded of how the original ancient Egyptian name for cats is possibly Mau.
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I dunno, it makes for a cute mental image. Egyptian finding a cat lounging by the granary between hunting for rats. "And who are you?" "Mauuu!" "Good enough for me!"
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Chinese is like that in that a lot of its words for animals are good onomatopoeic abstractions of the noise the animal makes.
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DontMockMySmock posted:"wer" in Old English means "man," so a werebear is a man who Even a man who is pure of heart And says his prayers sometimes May turn to a goon when he pays ten bucks And commit shitposting crimes.
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May 16, 2022 08:42
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In the language Mbabaram, once spoken by people who lived near what is today Cairns, the word for the domestic canine is “dog”. It is phonetically identical to the Australian English term for the same.
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My three-year old niece would refer to cats and dogs as maus and woofs and that makes perfect sense. I’m frankly surprised there aren’t more languages that use entirely first-principle names for animals. Like mother and father are basically some abstraction of the baby noises “ma ma” and “ba ba” (or sometimes “da da”) in every language I know, but I dunno who came up with “cat.”
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May 16, 2022 10:02
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I want you all to really listen to the words "chicken" and "duck"
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May 16, 2022 10:21
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It turns out we've been using Pokemon naming rules all along
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:My three-year old niece would refer to cats and dogs as maus and woofs and that makes perfect sense. I’m frankly surprised there aren’t more languages that use entirely first-principle names for animals. You don't know many languages, let's be honest here.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It turns out we've been using Pokemon naming rules all along so it's a wall? that always has the pokerus? ship it
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DontMockMySmock posted:"wer" in Old English means "man," so a werebear is a man who Hey, where did wīz go? dagōz when the regna- came Down in the hulwiją Playin' a new game Laughin' and a-rinnaną', hey, hey Skippin' and a-frawaz' In the misty morning feukaną with you Our, our hertô a-thumping and you My bear-eyed girl And you, my bear-eyed girl
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Platystemon posted:In the language Mbabaram, once spoken by people who lived near what is today Cairns, the word for the domestic canine is “dog”. In fact, the very name of their language roughly translates as "Black Betty"
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Sir Lemming posted:In fact, the very name of their language roughly translates as "Black Betty" Bam ba lam.
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Oh now I get it
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Breetai posted:Chinese is like that in that a lot of its words for animals are good onomatopoeic abstractions of the noise the animal makes. Talking about Donkeys and peacocks must be fun, the durian fruit of the Chinese language.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm only reminded of how the original ancient Egyptian name for cats is possibly Mau. The Quechua word for cat is "michi", pronounced "mee chee". So when you're in the Andes and are trying to call a cat, you say "michi michi michi michi" instead of "pspspspspspsps" There's a Quechua colloquialism, "michi uya", or "cat face(d)". It's used to describe someone the same way as "baby faced" in English, because as a cat ages his face stays the same 
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thepopmonster posted:Hey, where did wīz go? 
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goon songs are epic
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the formatting of songs makes them extremely easy to scroll past, at least
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:the formatting of songs makes them extremely easy to scroll past, at least Just like Tolkien
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Outrail posted:Talking about Donkeys and peacocks must be fun, the durian fruit of the Chinese language. 99% of people just say peacock so whatever.
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Don't Sign Your Posts!
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DontMockMySmock posted:On the other hand, in Proto-Germanic some thousands of years ago or something, the bear had a different name, but it was so fearsome an animal, people started euphemistically referring to it as "the brown one," which in Proto-Germanic was something like "bero", which also is related to the English word "brown." That different name, the one the Germanic peoples danced around so hard they basically made a new name for the animal? We still use it all the time, because English is a thief, and languages where they didn't get killed by bears all day long didn't change the word. In Greek, it's arktos. From which they had arktikos, "near the bear", for "North", apparently referring to the constellations of Ursa Major and/or Minor, of which the Big and Little Dippers are part. English borrowed arktikos to describe the land furthest North, the Arctic, and so the land furthest south is the Antarctic. That Ursa in Ursa Major is simply the Latin form of arktos, and persists in Romance languages as "ours", "oso", "urs". If you're francophone you call the bear by its true name. Sanskrit also preserved the name of the bear, and from there it found its way into Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Thai! Meanwhile, the Slavic languages ended up with something like "medved", which was another euphemistic name, this time meaning "honey-eater".
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Now we just use Grindr to summon bears.
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:They are peafowl, peacock is the male, peahen is the female. A peacock's call sounds kinda like peahaw, so it''s not too far off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ5SyMnm54M They also do a great trill and honk, but those are too hard for me to copy.
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Phy posted:That Ursa in Ursa Major is simply the Latin form of arktos, and persists in Romance languages as "ours", "oso", "urs". If you're francophone you call the bear by its true name. English still uses "ursine" but not uh like very often https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVI1CaPnPfQ (26 seconds in, since I've loving forgotten how to timestamp)
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Empty Sandwich posted:English still uses "ursine" but not uh like very often https://youtu.be/sVI1CaPnPfQ?t=26 It is the "?t=26" at the end and it is always referenced in number of seconds from 00:00:00 on the video. If you click the share button on the video the popup that gives you the link to copy has a checkbox for start at wherever the video was at when you clicked the share button.
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you can also do minutes and seconds, like ?t=4m20s
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The Bloop posted:do your balls have nips CzarChasm posted:do they hang below your hips
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Paladinus posted:You don't know many languages, let's be honest here. I mean if you have some good counter-examples I'd love to hear them. I spent one insomniac night googling a bunch of extremely non-Indo-European languages and the only one I could find that was totally off-base was the Te Reo word for mother, which was paired with the very on-the-nose "papa" for father.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I mean if you have some good counter-examples I'd love to hear them. I spent one insomniac night googling a bunch of extremely non-Indo-European languages and the only one I could find that was totally off-base was the Te Reo word for mother, which was paired with the very on-the-nose "papa" for father. You should check again, I don't think you've been very thorough.
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 Grow a thicker skin, you giant pussy. plashy posted:I got banned for not keeping up with my log, I'd like to explain why I didn't in here as I'm still keeping to my gym schedule. I asked a simple beginner diet and exercise question in here and was put off by the hostility of the responses, particularly from a mod, I found it very demotivating and struggled to care about going back to the gym for a week or two. I would prefer not to be in that position and keep my motivation up, since then I've not been back in this forum at all and it's helped a lot.
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Workout logs just reminds me of the guy who kept "accidentally" posting his workout log in the Kermit Gosnell thread.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Workout logs just reminds me of the guy who kept "accidentally" posting his workout log in the Kermit Gosnell thread. I have been working out!
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