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If we're going on about language... https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-delightful-perversity-of-quebecs-catholic-swears quote:“I have heard that people swear with the things they are afraid of,” says Olivier Bauer, a Swiss professor of religion who taught at the Université de Montréal and lived in the city for a decade. “So for English speaking people it’s sex, in Québec it is the church, and in France or Switzerland it is maybe more sexual or scatalogical.”
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a cyborg mug posted:The Danish number system is absolutely bonkers but has to do with the fact that it’s derived partly from a base-20 system instead of base-10, like most sane number systems. The weird cases in French are also derived from historical base-20 poo poo which used to be more common in Europe several centuries ago. I mean, base 20 actually makes more sense when you really think about it. What else am I supposed to use all these toes for??
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Captain Hygiene posted:I mean, base 20 actually makes more sense when you really think about it. What else am I supposed to use all these toes for?? Pedicure practice? Humbug Scoolbus has a new favorite as of 01:33 on Nov 17, 2022 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:I mean, base 20 actually makes more sense when you really think about it. What else am I supposed to use all these toes for?? Base 12 makes sense cause you can count on one hand using the segments of your fingers, and Base 60 is the same but using all 5 digits of the other hand as a modifier
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah it's hardly that uncommon in historical English either, see "four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie" or "four score and seven years ago...," I imagine most of the European-derived languages having at least semi-unique names for 11-19 is also a vestige of this
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Captain Hygiene posted:I mean, base 20 actually makes more sense when you really think about it. What else am I supposed to use all these toes for?? this is ten toe privilege.
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Friend posted:Also I just realized why some posts say "this user has a new favorite." It never clicked for me that I only saw it in PYF threads What are you talking about? Powered Descent posted:Edit this post and then look at it again. 
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credburn posted:What are you talking about? Edit this post and then look at it again.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Base 12 makes sense cause you can count on one hand using the segments of your fingers, and Base 60 is the same but using all 5 digits of the other hand as a modifier Meanwhile you can count to 1023 on your fingers in binary.
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Yeah, binary is pretty convenient, just a bit of a pain to convert back afterwards. Using the thumb to hold down fingers means counting up to 15 on one hand, or 255 on two hands, and that's usually plenty. yes, I have practised doing this
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I may have attempted it myself.
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i often count in binary on my fingers if i need to count something up past ~20 or so. it's a very useful trick, and i am a huge dweeb
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To all this talk of counting binary on your fingers, I say "4."
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Tell your mom I said 22
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5 101 kind of looks like 'lol' pls no probation
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MariusLecter posted:About the 4+4 thing. 69 is the last "normal" French number. Nice (not the city).
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Octante or huitante, cast your votes.
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One of the best things about my studies to become an elementary school teacher was how we started the math didactics course. Elementary school teachers will eventually end up teaching numbers and the base-10 system to some first-graders anyway. Well, base-10 is practically automatic for you and me. How do we get into the mindset of a tiny child just learning how numbers work? Well, we started by learning how to do basic calculations in binary and base-5. That really made us think about how base-10 might seem like to someone learning it for the first time.
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Just went down a rabbithole of how James/Seamus/Hamish are all the same name, and it turns out it goes way deeper. James originates from biblical Jacob/Ya'akov, which has spread into almost every major language on the planet in some form (hence why the rule of King James was the Jacobean Era and his followers were Jacobites) . But the real interesting one was that Ya'akov became Iacobus/Iacomus > Iaco > Iago, and then Santo Iago (the apostle James) became Santiago > Tiago > Diego. So Hamish and Diego have the same origin, weird. Failed Imagineer has a new favorite as of 11:19 on Nov 20, 2022 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Just went down a rabbithole of how James/Seamus/Hamish are all the same name, and it turns out it goes way deeper. James originates from biblical Jacob/Ya'akov, which has spread into almost every major language on the planet in some form (hence why the rule of King James was the Jacobean Era and his followers were Jacobites) . White people criticize naming your kid Jesus (Spanish pronunciation) without realizing that Josh is the same thing. Joshua/Yeshua George/Jorge, John/Juan etc
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:White people criticize naming your kid Jesus (Spanish pronunciation) without realizing that Josh is the same thing. Joshua/Yeshua Right, but Jesus was named after Joshua, not the other way around. It was - and still is - a common Jewish name. Is "Jesus" just how you write the name "Joshua" if you speak Spanish? Or is it (presumably very Catholic in origin) specifically naming your kid after the Christian religious figure? Hyperlynx has a new favorite as of 12:39 on Nov 20, 2022 |
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Spanish for "Joshua" is "Josué", which seems to be exclusively biblical
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:White people criticize naming your kid Jesus (Spanish pronunciation) without realizing that Josh is the same thing. Joshua/Yeshua They criticize it because they're racist op
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Milo and POTUS posted:They criticize it because they're racist op Oh I know
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Captain Hygiene posted:It would be, and I was disappointed when I found out that's not what they do In the last sequel movie they blow up planets and nobody calls them 'planet destroyers'. Should have just gone full cheese and made the star destroyers literal.
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Tunicate posted:In the last sequel movie they blow up planets and nobody calls them 'planet destroyers'. do you want sun crushers? cause thats how you get sun crushers
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Tunicate posted:In the last sequel movie they blow up planets and nobody calls them 'planet destroyers'. the Mike Nelson class ship
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Tunicate posted:In the last sequel movie they blow up planets and nobody calls them 'planet destroyers'. I mean it's not like it's the stars themselves that are at war.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:White people criticize naming your kid Jesus That’s something white people complain about? I’ve never heard that in my whole life and I live in Texas. We’re fair to bursting with Jesuses.
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Lincoln posted:That’s something white people complain about? I’ve never heard that in my whole life and I live in Texas. We’re fair to bursting with Jesuses. Oregon here and yeah can confirm.
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Names are names, it doesn't matter what they're derived from. Joshua isn't the same name as Jesus. Your name doesn't just switch to a different variation when you enter another country, although for convenience sake I realize a ton of people do this anyway. I (a white guy) had a Mexican neighbor who introduced himself to me as "Mike" and for a long time I called him Mike until I met his friends and family, all of whom called him Miguel.
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credburn posted:Names are names, it doesn't matter what they're derived from. Joshua isn't the same name as Jesus. Your name doesn't just switch to a different variation when you enter another country, I was bummed that they decided we won't be Finlandizing rulers' names officially anymore so the new king of whatever is called Charles not Kaarle. Stupid decision IMHO. E: although they already didn't do it with Juan Carlos so vOv Ee: just found our they haven't been doing it to non-Nordic rulers since the 1970s. Makes no sense 
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Can’t believe they’re just going to stop and leave them all unfinnished
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christmas boots posted:Can’t believe they’re just going to stop and leave them all unfinnished 
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"We don't translate names", we say, and then literally do all the time. In Sweden we use Swedish names for the other Nordic cities, but usually not for others, where we instead use...the English names, pronounced in Swedish. Also we called Beijing "Peking".
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Phosphine posted:Also we called Beijing "Peking". There's a long long looooooong history of people referring to foreign countries and cities by weird names which the locals don't use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There's a long long looooooong history of people referring to foreign countries and cities by weird names which the locals don't use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym It's weird to me that almost everyone else calls Wendia "Swedeland", including Wendians themselves.
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credburn posted:Names are names, it doesn't matter what they're derived from. Joshua isn't the same name as Jesus. Your name doesn't just switch to a different variation when you enter another country, although for convenience sake I realize a ton of people do this anyway. I (a white guy) had a Mexican neighbor who introduced himself to me as "Mike" and for a long time I called him Mike until I met his friends and family, all of whom called him Miguel. They used to change like that. Guy baptized as Jürgen crosses from Germany to Denmark would be called Jørgen, then he enters Sweden and is called Göran, then Yrjö in Finland & Yuri in Russia. This because people considered them to be the same names, literally, the spellings were just regional variants. Mostly that stopped by the mid-1800s, but you still see it with royalty to some extent. Note that it did not happen to any major extent at Ellis Island, as by then the paperwork was good. People had documents, the ships had passenger manifests, etc, so at least Europeans would generally be recorded with the spelling from their home country. Many did change their names afterwards though.
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