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Data Graham posted:Related, from the same article that clip excerpts, "green great dragon" You can say “green great dragon” if something called a “great dragon” exists and is green. Of course it would imply the existence of a “lesser dragon” and makes it sound like you’re reading out of a D&D book
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Scratch Monkey posted:You can say “green great dragon” if something called a “great dragon” exists and is green. Of course it would imply the existence of a “lesser dragon” and makes it sound like you’re reading out of a D&D book But... no dragons exist.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:But... no dragons exist. Someone's never been to Indiana
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Be that as it may I am extremely jealous of the person on the tolkien forum who took GreenGreatDragon as a username e: a place where using "jealous" instead of "envious" would rightly shame me Data Graham has a new favorite as of 13:52 on Sep 2, 2022 |
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Blue Footed Booby posted:It's because you're foreign [Werner Herzog voice] ablaut reduplication Data Graham posted:e: a place where using "jealous" instead of "envious" would rightly shame me never hang with hardcore prescriptivists 
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Scratch Monkey posted:Wtf is a “Mormon cricket”? They're the reason seagulls are the state bird of Utah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_gulls
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3D Megadoodoo posted:But... no dragons exist. Look at this idiot
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3D Megadoodoo posted:But... no dragons exist. Explain your mom, then.
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That's because it's set for metric time.
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Yeah metric poo poo don't work in the us. You have to be like its three and two quarters football fields o'clock
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The reason time uses base 60 is because the sumerians used base 60 so like many things, you should blame ea nasir for it.
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They had to redesign the planned 100-minute sun dial after 40% of the copper they bought turned out to be below spec, tragic
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steinrokkan posted:They had to redesign the planned 100-minute sun dial after 40% of the copper they bought turned out to be below spec, tragic I get this reference.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:poo poo Piss Holy! Oh, you mean that girl band TikTakTok, i remember them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7HyGa2YFg4 (lol i forgot how hard this beat slaps, it's incredibly wasted on this song)
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Foxfire_ posted:It's a good account, Bront It's a bad account, and Brent is an idiot for selling out and saying it's good. Karate Bastard posted:Look at this idiot Its missing a comma. It was supposed to say but… no, dragons exist.
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Grendels Dad posted:Explain your mom, then. This guy would know
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https://twitter.com/midwestern_ope/status/1565369630151131136?s=21&t=DRpv-eq8fU9m_QcUZGv5vw ope.
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Anywhere but Ohio please
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Busket Posket posted:https://twitter.com/midwestern_ope/status/1565369630151131136?s=21&t=DRpv-eq8fU9m_QcUZGv5vw My wife's grandfather moved to Ohio and a year later was dead. I don't think that is a coincidence.
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Busket Posket posted:https://twitter.com/midwestern_ope/status/1565369630151131136?s=21&t=DRpv-eq8fU9m_QcUZGv5vw 
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Translators note: In Japanese, Ohio means go gently caress yourself.
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Karate Bastard posted:Translators note: In Japanese, Ohio means go gently caress yourself. Weird, that's also what it means in English. Love little universal language things like that, or the "N" sound for most languages' no/negative words.
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The Anime Liker posted:Weird, that's also what it means in English.
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FFT posted:Japanese being a notable exception where "no" sounds kinda like "yeah" Only when minors say it.
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Grendels Dad posted:Only when minors say it.
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The Anime Liker posted:Love little universal language things like that, or the "N" sound for most languages' no/negative words. Genuinely not accusing you of anything but this does seem a bit western-centric; are there actually loads of examples of non-romantic or germanic languages that also use an 'N' sound in a similar way? Grendels Dad posted:Only when minors say it. good lord steinrokkan posted:They had to redesign the planned 100-minute sun dial after 40% of the copper they bought turned out to be below spec, tragic lmao
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The simpsons have done it again!
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Mister Speaker posted:Genuinely not accusing you of anything but this does seem a bit western-centric; are there actually loads of examples of non-romantic or germanic languages that also use an 'N' sound in a similar way? Yeah, Slavic languages use it too, although that's western-/Euro-centric in a way as well. It's because many Indo-European languages inherited it from PIE, and combined with colonization you end up with an awful lot of people using "n-" to negate something.
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The Bananana posted:I don't get it. I'm also at a LOSS
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The Bananana posted:I don't get it. Move past and heal.
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Oh hey check out my entire personal dictionary that I've added to my phone: 
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You didn't even spell provolone correctly.Trabant posted:Yeah, Slavic languages use it too, although that's western-/Euro-centric in a way as well. It's because many Indo-European languages inherited it from PIE, and combined with colonization you end up with an awful lot of people using "n-" to negate something. drat, language is fascinating. Thanks!
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Cyrano4747 posted:iirc the name comes from the early Mormon settlers in Utah almost getting their first crops wiped out by the things. A big rear end flock of birds saved them one year if I'm remembering it right. yeah this is the explanation of the name, they range in the west USA from Utah into southwestern Idaho and into southeastern Oregon. a swarm of them will turn the roads very dangerous because they tend to be out in the prairielands in this region, so high speed two lane highways get bogged down because you're suddenly going 25mph on a 55mph highway the weirdest thing about it is they release this strange odor that's almost sweet smelling when they get squashed in such quantities so the first time I encountered them I thought it was a spill of produce on the road, like cherries left baking and rotting under the summer sun
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