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Data Graham posted:Smooth ground lions are ensnaring me with their sticky tongues and eating me
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Tree Bucket posted:It's great how "chameleon" translates as "ground lion." You've got an animal that dwells in trees, can change colour, and can shoot out a long sticky tongue, and you think, "ah it's just like a lion, only on the ground" The person who named it was aware of sea lions and thought there should be an inland version as well. Co-workers tried to politely inform him by leaving books about lions on his desk, but he wouldn't take the hint. Also he was the boss's son.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:what's the air lion, then Well you've got American, United, Southwest,
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Platystemon posted:e: Really important to have those fractions, @, and ¢, though. 🙄 To be fair, back then the cent symbol was a lot more relevant than it is today, but @ just saving you one character (it's not like they had email addresses...) is a bit silly.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:what's the air lion, then Balloon
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Okay, now what’s the plasma lion?
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ZixTheYeti posted:Okay, now what’s the plasma lion? The microwave
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It's some sort of ... land cow!
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BaronVonVaderham posted:To be fair, back then the cent symbol was a lot more relevant than it is today, but @ just saving you one character (it's not like they had email addresses...) is a bit silly. Weird to think that the reason we have @ symbols to denote email addresses is that someone thought it was worth putting it on a typewriter, leaving it a nice otherwise-unused symbol on your keyboard when the email protocol was being designed.
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  Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:the danish word for lizard is 'firben' which directly translated means four legs Some Icelandic animal names Turtle - skjaldbaka (shield-back) Rhinoceros - Nashyrningur (nose-horner) Octopus - Kolkrabbi (coal-crab) Parrot - Páfagaukur (Pope-cuckoo) Capybara - Flóðsvín (flood-swine) Porcupine/hedgehog - broddgöltur (spike-hog) Mole - Moldvarpa (dirt-thrower) FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 16:56 on Mar 27, 2023 |
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Sonic the Spike Hog sounds like a romhack for the super nintendo
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Sonic the Spike Hog sounds like a romhack for the super nintendo Or a game included on a bootleg console at the flea market that's a controller you plug directly into the TV.
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kdrudy posted:Or a game included on a bootleg console at the flea market that's a controller you plug directly into the TV. I think you're mistaken, that was a secret prototype Nintendo that my dad got from his friend whose brother knew a guy who worked at Nintendo, and I had to keep it a secret or the lawyers would find us
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KA-ME-HA-ME-LEON!
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McPhearson posted:The Spanish word for peacock is "Pavo Real", which directly translates as "Royal Turkey". I love it! FreudianSlippers posted:Some Icelandic animal names Woah nice. In Danish it's muldvarp but I didn't know it actually had a meaning. Okay one more: Common bottlenose dolphin is 'øresvin' which translates to ear pig.
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My metal side project is now named Working Beard Door
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:I love it! My favorite one like this from German is 'Schildkröte' - frog. It breaks down into "shield toad" Which, sure. It's a toad with a shield. I get it.
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McPhearson posted:The Spanish word for peacock is "Pavo Real", which directly translates as "Royal Turkey". well actually,,,, pavo means peacock, and they were renamed Royal peacock after the spanish encountered the peacock native to mexico: 
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:Okay one more: Common bottlenose dolphin is 'øresvin' which translates to ear pig. I wonder if it's the same person who named the titmouse.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Some Icelandic animal names Cephalopod - head foot
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Another good one in German: squid and octopus are “ink fish”
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I was going to share the one about penguin being 'business goose' in Mandardin Chinese, but apparently that's a misnomer. It shares a character with the word for business, but it more accurately translates to 'standing/tip-toeing goose'. I guess that's not so bad either, though. https://www.chineseboost.com/blog/c...0%8B%27%C3%A9).
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Crisi-tunity goose
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Imagine ordering one in discrete packaging, and then it arrives in this van. Now I'm imagining it having a jingle like an Ice-cream van, and then after it arrives the delivery man posts a message on all of your social medias saying that the dildo has arrived complete with a picture of the dildo and another of your front doorstep. And then they add a picture of you to their "satisfied customers" list on their webpage. (I should stop thinking about this).
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Tombot posted:Imagine ordering one in discrete packaging, and then it arrives in this van. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV-4HH6BxY0
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My favourite bird (aside from the wagtail) is the spotted pardalote. But pardalote just means "spotted." So its the spotted spotted. The spotted spotted is hard to spot. Data Graham posted:Crisi-tunity goose I read this in the correct voice. FreudianSlippers posted:Octopus - Kolkrabbi (coal-crab) What??
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Tree Bucket posted:What?? Like in some languages it's called ink fish. Something black that it emits + a type of marine animal.
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Platystemon posted:Oh yeah and another fun fact about typewriters is that they typically didn’t have an exclamation mark! I've always wanted a Corona, just got a couple Underwood portables and an Oliver edit: and a Royal flatbed #2
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:what's the air lion, then Nicodemus Dumps posted:Well you've got American, United, Southwest, 
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Cyrano4747 posted:Another good one in German: squid and octopus are “ink fish” Same problem in Swedish, which really restricts your access to ika at a sushi restaurants, just because Chomski is right it turns out.
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In Danish they're 'ink spouts' which is definitely a slightly better name.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:what's the air lion, then A henwae
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I suspect, but don't know for sure, the name can be traced back to the early 19th century when Iceland's national poet Jónas Hallgrímsson made up a couple hundred new words for various animals, natural phenomena, and scientific terms that Icelandic didn't have any word for. Before his time people just used to Danish term for anything too fancy or foreign to have its own native word. Some of them were very good (see skjaldbaka) but they couldn't all be hits. Jónas died at age 38 after he fell down some strairs coming home shitfaced from the pub in his apartment building in Copenhagen. He only broke a leg but it was late and he didn't want to bother the neighbours so he didn't call out for help and got a really nasty infection. A hundred years after his death his remains and/or the remains of some random Danish commoner (he was buried in a paupers grave with a bunch of other people) were shipped back home and he was given a state funeral. In conclusion Jónas Hallgrímsson is a land of contrasts.
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