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koshmar posted:https://twitter.com/capetownbrown/status/1555366629852192769?s=20&t=DHF70dimsEhNidZp5pa0_A Come back to him in ten years and it's going to be the same answers except c->p
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Nicodemus Dumps posted:"helping" Well I feel foolish!
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Nenonen posted:Come back to him in ten years and it's going to be the same answers except c->p And then he tried that with butter and everything changed again.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:
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why do they call it infart when you in fart the cars of out ut fart the carts
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for fucks sake posted:From a YouTube video about trains fun fact: swedish tvär means "through", danish tvær means annoyed, while danish tværs means "straight through" (as does german quer), but på tværs means "oppositional", and finally in english queer means "crooked". afaik they all come from the same stem, so if youre queer youre also straight, and if youre straight youre crooked. alright im through, no opposition intended
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Carthag Tuek posted:fun fact: swedish tvär means "through", danish tvær means annoyed, while danish tværs means "straight through" (as does german quer), but på tværs means "oppositional", and finally in english queer means "crooked". afaik they all come from the same stem, so if youre queer youre also straight, and if youre straight youre crooked. alright im through, no opposition intended They're very beautiful languages
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Data Graham posted:e: lol I wonder if anyone but a Harvard grad has ever heard more than the first few notes of the song
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Carthag Tuek posted:fun fact: swedish tvär means "through", danish tvær means annoyed, while danish tværs means "straight through" (as does german quer), but på tværs means "oppositional", and finally in english queer means "crooked". afaik they all come from the same stem, so if youre queer youre also straight, and if youre straight youre crooked. alright im through, no opposition intended
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Flipperwaldt posted:All those things mean at an angle, oblique, diagonally, not along the grain, not going with the flow, in another direction, deviant, etc. Even when it translates as straight through, it actually means perpendicular to the plane. Dutch has 'dwars'. You can translate dwars as oppositional, but it implies a 90 degree angle, instead of sorta 180 degrees in the latter, blocking rather than confronting. In the same way being dwars means annoyed or mopey, but it's with an obstructionist twist. oh yeah! i didnt know dwars, but yeah when i wrote "oppositional" i basically meant "intentionally disagreeable". also "cross" in english means annoyed, but is obviously a completely different word. maybe a calque? anyway i always thought of it as more of a 45° angle, like through the middle of a room
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Carthag Tuek posted:oh yeah! i didnt know dwars, but yeah when i wrote "oppositional" i basically meant "intentionally disagreeable". also "cross" in english means annoyed, but is obviously a completely different word. maybe a calque? It's fallen out of usage but "cross-grained" used to be a term for people who were obstinate, troublesome or awkward E: ok, so, cross as in "angry" does come from "cross" as in "peevish", which is from "across", which comes from "cross" as in the thing Jesus got nailed to, which comes from the Latin "crux". "Thwart", however, as in "thwarting my plans", looks to be descended from one of the Scandinavian ones you've been talking about. Phy has a new favorite as of 20:35 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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Phy posted:It's fallen out of usage but "cross-grained" used to be a term for people who were obstinate, troublesome or awkward i wonder where the "grain" part came from. sounds to me like a product thats not working as intended because the grains are crossed (maybe perpendicular?) im thinking paper. if its too cheaply made it can be grainy in the wrong way & your quill or fountain pen will hit a snag/grain and welp that fucks up the whole sheet e: thwart makes sense when i hear it, but i wouldnt have guessed it
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The grain is the orientation of fibers in wood. So "against the grain" means to work wood in a fashion wherein the fibers are prone to splitting or tearing out. Generally it is desirable to work "with the grain" which means to work it such that you are not pulling fibers away from the bulk of the board. It thus forms an allegory for conformity. You can usually feel it if you run your hand over unfinished wood, one direction it will be coarse and prone to giving you splinters, the other the fibers will flatten under your fingers. Like petting a dog front to back or back to front. OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 20:51 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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SLOSifl posted:Not sure what the original name was in English but my favorite track is (translated) Fuckface in the Rain In English it's "Fool in the Rain," and now I desperately need to know what language you speak.
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OwlFancier posted:The grain is the orientation of fibers in wood. So "against the grain" means to work wood in a fashion wherein the fibers are prone to splitting or tearing out. Generally it is desirable to work "with the grain" which means to work it such that you are not pulling fibers away from the bulk of the board. It thus forms an allegory for conformity. fuckin wood, of course. thanks lol we say "go/rub/saw with/against the veins" in wood, which i think you can maybe also say in english but you cant say grain in danish
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How do you say dog in Danish? Probably something crazy like hund, lmao, just imagine.
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Paladinus posted:How do you say dog in Danish? Probably something crazy like hund, lmao, just imagine. its actually køter
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I'm a page late but vittles is pronounced that way because it came to english from a French word for the same thing which similarly lacked a C, and for a long time it was probably spelled vitales or vittals or whatever. But it then had the contemporary spelling standardised based on the Latin root word victualis, by the same nerds who hosed up a whole bunch of other words with silent letters and poo poo that were meant to make more obvious their connection back to the Latin/Greek roots. These are the shitbags that we have to thank for stuff like the silent B in debt and doubt, or the C in scissors and scythe.
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No one knows the origins of the word "dog".
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ultrafilter posted:No one knows the origins of the word "dog". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH64dlgyydM
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bike tory posted:I'm a page late but vittles is pronounced that way because it came to english from a French word for the same thing which similarly lacked a C, and for a long time it was probably spelled vitales or vittals or whatever. But it then had the contemporary spelling standardised based on the Latin root word victualis, by the same nerds who hosed up a whole bunch of other words with silent letters and poo poo that were meant to make more obvious their connection back to the Latin/Greek roots. These are the shitbags that we have to thank for stuff like the silent B in debt and doubt, or the C in scissors and scythe. The c in scythe is because it's cool
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ultrafilter posted:No one knows the origins of the word "dog". Or most super basic words like that. PIE is a guessing game to a big extent so we will never know which guy made up the word penis
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freeedr posted:Or most super basic words like that. PIE is a guessing game to a big extent so we will never know which guy made up the word penis ? It was me. I don’t like to brag about it though. You're welcome!
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If I invented it there would be at least twelve letters
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Soul Dentist posted:If I invented it there would be at least twelve letters The Hummer of words, eh?
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koshmar posted:https://twitter.com/capetownbrown/status/1555366629852192769?s=20&t=DHF70dimsEhNidZp5pa0_A Give that kid all the corn
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freeedr posted:If you are wrong enough often enough people stop bothering to correct you. This is a life hack I have learned That's literally how language works. See also: "literally", which doesn't literally mean "literally" any more.
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Chiming in to say the danish tværs also means abeam, as in perpendicular to the direction of travel
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Crain posted:And then he tried that with butter and everything changed again. That's crazy. The first one I ever saw had butter in it. But it was going in opposite the usual direction. At least it took place in the kitchen. BaldDwarfOnPCP has a new favorite as of 02:33 on Aug 6, 2022 |
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