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Trent posted:Assorted colors. Looks like the thread title is paying off! The a in assorted comes from the latin prefix "ad" which indicates direction or addition to something rather than the greek prefix "an" which means not. The "sort" part comes from the noun version of the word where it means type or kind. So historically, the word assorted was used to describe the opposite of what you wrote - a collection of things sorted into types. If you Google <word> etymology, you'll find a lot more detail. Word origins that you figure out on your own are almost 100% of the time completely wrong.
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The cobalt thing is true too. Face it guys, he got us.
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Besesoth posted:I'd known about ballad/common meter, but I keep discovering new pop-culture uses of it; my kid just came in singing the "Pokémon" theme song to the tune of "Amazing Grace". Like the way you can sing all Emily Dickinson poems to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas?
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Krankenstyle posted:Similarly, "little green bag" is about drowning the Irish as if they were kittens Yogi the Bear was originally an allegory for 19th century corpse robbers.
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Queen Combat posted:Even at "sear-sha," that doesn't rhyme with "inertia." They're slightly different sounds that happen to end in an "uh," which doesn't make them rhyme. How do you pronounce inertia?
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EdwardSwifferhands posted:I just learned that pineapples grow at ground level. I'd always assumed they were up in trees like coconuts. It's not that hard to grow one yourself. You can more or less just cut the top off of a store bought pineapple, plant it in a pot, and wait a few years.
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Mar 13, 2019 15:23
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I'm starting to wonder how many people in this thread say "libarry" and "pasgetti".
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May 14, 2019 23:09
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The Roman stateman Cicero is named after the latin word for chickpea, cicer.
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Jun 24, 2019 05:28
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Tesseraction posted:Latin c was only ever pronounced k. Kik-er-oh. Likewise Caesar is pronounced "Kaiser" hence that being a term for a leader in German. There's also an interesting theory about how Etruscans spoke revolving around the letter "C". Linguists believe that there was little or no difference between how they pronounced the K sound and the hard G sound. They believe this because when the Romans adopted the Greek alphabet from the Etruscans and transformed it into the Latin alphabet, they converted Gamma into C (pronounced K) and created a separate new letter "G" (which is just a crossed C, if you think about it) for the consonant sound that Gamma used to provide. The Romans also kept K around for writing Greek loan words, for some reason.
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Jun 24, 2019 17:29
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I never heard of the melk thing until a show I listen to went crazy over this video. Now it's the only thing I think about when I hear the word milk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBRUWrl5a6Y
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Jul 21, 2019 22:19
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Nostradingus posted:Almost certainly. Maybe you just only saw him in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello_(1965_British_film)
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Organza Quiz posted:Wait how is it pronounced? kweez-in-art They pronounce it that way in their advertisements: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPj4fPlLLhABe54lb8PsZOw
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Jerry Cotton posted:So... like cuisine art. kweez-in versus kweez-een But really purple death ray posted:kweez nuts
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Shibawanko posted:yeah but the solution to that is not to do or eat foreign things but to look at what they are actually supposed to be like vs the lovely western supermarket version and making the real thing Or maybe just eat whatever makes you happy and stop using your commercial consumption as a proxy for how woke you are?
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Sep 29, 2020 15:41
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ookiimarukochan posted:When one of "those people" explains why the bullshit "white expert" version of their food is upsetting, claiming that they're trying to be "woke" is racist af, congratulations (you're obviously not the only person doing this in the thread so I don't mean to single you out in particular) You're getting angry about things that are the inevitable result of more than one culture inhabiting the same space, especially in a capitalist system where the market squeezes everything in its reach dry of content. This happens all over the world and has happened endless times throughout the past. Your only real innovation here is "AAAH! FUCKINGWHITEPEOPLE!!" which is fine - it will stand up for a few rounds on an internet message board - but it's hard to go from that to a firm enough philosophical system which will let you build a set of Nuremberg Laws for groceries.
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quote:Most dryer sheets are made from a nonwoven polyester material coated with a softening agent that has a long hydrophobic chain. Fatty acids, fatty alcohols, and alcohol ethoxylates are all possible softening agents. P&G uses quaternary ammonium salts of fatty acids as its primary softening agents, whereas Unilever, which produces Snuggle dryer sheets, uses a stearic acid. From this article. I hope that clears things up.
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A version of the matching meters thing that actually works out is Emily Dickenson poems and The Yellow Rose of Texas. Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.
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Feb 23, 2021 00:51
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Phosphine posted:When I was growing up I had this theory that you could pretty accurately gauge the social status/richness of an area by looking at how long the world maps at school has the Soviet Union on them. I had this idea in about 2004, as both my current and previous school at the time did. I brought this up last year or something and my wife thought it was absurd that any school would have an incorrect map for so long, having grown up in a rich fancy suburb rather than a dying industrial town. In the early 90s my middle school geography class was playing a game that involved naming countries that started with different letters of the alphabet. When we got to 'D' I called Djibouti - which nobody in my class, including the teacher, belived was real. To prove it, the teacher got out a globe and showed me the country I though was named Djibouti was actually French Somalialand. Which it was. Fron 1883 to 1967.
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Apr 21, 2021 15:03
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:Thirteen years earlier, Bill Murray was bedeviled by a groundhog in "Caddyshack". The animal from Caddyshack was a gopher, not a groundhog.
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May 4, 2021 00:34
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:It's a thing in cities too I guess, or at least the one I live in That's not universal. Lots of towns do different arrangements. Manhattan, for example, has numbered streets running cross town and numbered avenues running uptown/downtown. Chicago has numbered east/west streets and named north/south streets.
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May 5, 2021 01:44
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Captain Hygiene posted:Now this is the true Manhattan's street grid has few good  features for something so superficially simple.Each block is a little over three times as wide as it is tall. They did it originally to service the wharfs that used to line this island. Now that the wharves are all gone, the arrangement mostly just lets pedestrians know that they can go gently caress themselves.
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May 5, 2021 01:56
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at that design philosophy.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Or you could head out to Queens and visit Astoria Coffee, on the corner of 30th st and 30th ave, right around the corner from 30th dr. Only in New York, baby. Go Mets.
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May 5, 2021 03:03
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FreudianSlippers posted:no one under the age of 60 uses ellipsis Or do they...
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May 11, 2021 02:17
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3D Megadoodoo posted:No no no. The answer to "how many" isn't the name of the number six, it's the number six. I don't like where this is going. Next thing we know, you're going to be making GBS threads on viperless milk and man trains.
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May 24, 2021 00:33
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Dip Viscous posted:I dunno, after a couple of months the spring loses enough tension that the roller falls out of the holder when I try to unroll the paper. Maybe I've only ever lived near stores that stock exceptionally bad ones but it's a frequent enough problem that I have a backup one under the bathroom sink right now. Sounds more like a problem with your holder than the spindle. I'm well into middle age and I've never had one wear out on me.
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Hyperlynx posted:Me in highschool: "Huh. 'Desire' is a weird name for a streetcar. And I wonder why it has a name, anyway..." It was a streetcar line in New Orleans, the city the play is set in. And it's also a metaphor.
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Wasabi the J posted:It's a metaphor like backronyms; ascribed meaning after it's existence. That's how all metaphors work.
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christmas boots posted:Can numbers be metaphors? Only figuratively.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I think I've seen that video The wierdest Forgotten Weapons episode yet.
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Phy posted:I just learned the names of the days of the week were a lot more systematic than I thought. It starts with the Hellenistic system introduced by the Romans, where each day of a 7 day week was named after a "classical" planet - Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. Is there evidence that it actually started with the hellenistic system? With that kind of spread it's tempting to wonder if it doesn't have an earlier Indo-European source.
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Sucrose posted:Isn’t Marian supposed to be like, 16 years old? How does a 16 year old get a job as a librarian and the reputation for being an old maid?
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The strange thing about french numbers is that there are dialects of it that have perfectly reasonable words for those numbers - octante for 80, nonante for 90 for example. It's just that speakers of "normal" french refuse to use them.
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Brawnfire posted:I'm always torn when I hear the Wilhelm scream. Sometimes it's brilliant homage. Sometimes you're like, really? A little while ago, somone found the complete recording session for the Whilhelm scream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-hE7dXLhcE
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May 14, 2023 14:48
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The YouTube channel I've been following for years that uploaded nothing but new episodes of one specific british game show was a long term scam for a fake GoFundMe. https://twitter.com/AlexHardwick95/status/1678006474616832001?s=20
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Wasabi the J posted:Twitter doesn't let non users see threads anymore Well that's loving irritating. If you'll forgive the source, here's a summary: https://www.reddit.com/r/UniversityChallenge/comments/14uw823/hello_this_is_the_truth_about_dave_garda/
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:..... and they date back to at least the early 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel Peter Cushing was a fan of the game too. The number of historical figures that would be very into Warhammer is larger than we think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGag8Qllgnw
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credburn posted:I just learned that Chris Elliot is not a pedophile? It's a shame you didn't realize this earlier. Due to Brett Gelman losing his mind, you missed the window to uncritically enjoy Eagleheart.
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