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The name Menzies is pronounced Mingus but spelled the way it is because at some point somebody made a mistake in reading the letterforms - z and g look pretty similar in some scripts, like cursive
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Dr_Amazing posted:I don't get it. what if there were 50 Shay DeGrays
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Sep 16, 2015 18:46
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For the record there are at least seven or eight different etymological origins behind a- prefixes in English, so if your remarkable breakthrough is related to that prefix you've got an even better-than-usual chance of being wrong as gently caress Also entomology is a completely different word that already means something else
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Sep 24, 2015 16:01
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Continuing regionalchat, I just found out that Fluffernutter sandwiches are apparently only a thing in New England, even though you can totally buy Fluff in other parts of the country
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Oct 9, 2015 18:34
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the sun'll come out tomorrow bet your last 100 rear end-pennies that tomorrow there'll be sun
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Nov 11, 2015 05:21
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Ego-bot posted:And it was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. No it wasn't. The tune is a French folk song, and Mozart wrote an arrangement of the folk song.
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Nov 13, 2015 10:02
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What do you drink with dinner at home if not milk? Soda all day every day? Coffee at 7 pm? Wine? Just water? Why is milk-drinking supposed to be worthy of note?
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Dec 31, 2015 17:02
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YeahTubaMike posted:Nothing? We drank water/tea/orange juice throughout the day if we were thirsty, but we usually ate dinner by itself. I think having no beverage at all with a meal sounds an awful lot weirder (in the "less standard across the population" sense, not as a value judgement) than drinking milk; but that's from a Land-O-Lakes White American perspective.
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Dec 31, 2015 19:41
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how the hell do you think it's supposed to be pronounced, then
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Jan 18, 2016 02:53
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legacy words. bequeathed words
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Dec 22, 2016 02:58
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But it's not like camels were native to the North American section of Pangaea and then wandered over to the Middle Eastern section of Pangaea -- by the time camels existed Pangaea no longer existed, although the continents weren't in their modern locations either. Camels ended up in their current location by migrating across the Bering Strait into Eurasia, in a reverse of how humans crossed over into North America.
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Jan 5, 2017 08:00
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I keep my butter in the fridge because in my part of Texas, during most of the year my house can't be cooled below 78 (try, and the air conditioner ices up) and butter melts on the counter. People routinely tell me this is impossible, because butter cannot melt at room temperature. Those people can gently caress themselves because I loving live here in real life and see it with my loving eyes
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Jan 17, 2017 22:03
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yeah I figured it was pretty obvious that I live in Satan's rear end in a top hat, since I gave my location
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Jan 17, 2017 22:28
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well, Ohio is also a hellhole, hope that helps Texas is just a hellhole that's also as hot as actual hell
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Jan 17, 2017 22:32
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Beachcomber posted:I cook pork to the USDA recommended temperature because pork tapeworms can colonize your brain whereas beef tapeworms can't. That's 145 with a 3 minute rest period before you eat it. That's still going to be medium well, not a completely dry, leathery hockey puck
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Jan 24, 2017 06:37
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Yoshi Jjang posted:Ermine is pronounced like ur-min. I've been pronouncing it like ur-mine my entire life. 
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Jan 26, 2017 19:00
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rydiafan posted:I'm an American, and I've never seen "lede" in my life.
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Feb 26, 2017 22:39
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Organza Quiz posted:I have played classical music most of my life (as a hobby anyway) and I have never heard even the most nitpickiest of nitpickers complain that you can't call it classical music if it's not from the classical period. I'm pretty sure everyone recognises it's an umbrella term as well as a term referring to a particular period.
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Jun 11, 2017 17:02
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cyberia posted:I'm pretty sure this is a recent made-up term rather than some ~official~ dictionary-listed word and I hate it. It sounds so stupid, argh. 1951
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Jun 13, 2017 20:34
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Sentient Data posted:I think the lack of rigid season dates is because there's nothing tied directly to the seasons here, they're just kind of a background thing. Hell, we don't even have an official harvest festival day which seems weird since it's such an agrarian country Thanksgiving is a harvest festival
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Jul 2, 2017 05:05
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but they said they don't have rigid season dates where they are, in a conversation which began by noting that Australia has rigid season dates
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Jul 2, 2017 05:48
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they probably change the messaging at different times and places, i guess -- when I was a kid the imagery was 90% harvest (cornucopias etc) with 10% "pilgrims and stereotype indians" tossed in for garnish v(._.)v
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Jul 2, 2017 12:44
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Powaqoatse posted:It kindof is the same, but no worries. You're cool now that you realize that all proper nouns are different in all languages please explain how the etymological relationship between Etruscan and Tuscany is really just the same as the political changes that led to Nieuw Amsterdam being renamed New York
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Aug 19, 2017 23:45
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FreudianSlippers posted:Heck in the mid 60s having fought in WW2 was just still as much of a dad thing as a grandpa thing. yes dad fought in WW2 and grandpa was in WWI like the WWI flying ace portrayed by Snoopy.
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Nov 4, 2017 00:20
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I just realized that when Ricky Ricardo said Lucy had some splaining to do, or said she was specting when she was pregnant, that was hypercorrection because Spanish has a bunch of words that start with es that start with just s in English, like estupido.... or espaņol
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Dec 19, 2017 03:22
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please look up the Wikipedia article on hypercorrection, section: English as a second language. quote:Some English-Spanish cognates primarily differ by beginning with "s" vs. "es", such as the English word "spectacular" and the Spanish word "espectacular". A native Spanish speaker may conscientiously hypercorrect for the word "establish" by writing or saying "stablish", which is archaic. That's exactly what I meant and I honestly don't understand your objection.
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Dec 20, 2017 18:58
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rodbeard posted:No they specifically weren't allowed to kiss because Desi wasn't considered white. The show's producer said to Lucy: "Nobody will believe you are married to this whop." I Love Lucy is on CBS right now and Lucy and Desi just kissed on the lips; you're full of poo poo.
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Dec 23, 2017 02:19
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rodbeard posted:Yeah I saw them kiss in the commercial for the special. I guess the biography for the show was full of poo poo. I looked it up and the episode where they kiss was not rebroadcasted after the initial airing until 1989. Maybe people just forgot. maybe they were told that early on; that episode last night was a later one. Sorry for wording my objection so harshly
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Dec 23, 2017 15:52
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people literally won't agree that the earth is round but tiggum still thinks consensus reality is a decent idea
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Jan 30, 2018 00:25
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Isn't Pat Sajak the real "good morning Vietnam" guy? Or is that a myth? On mobile waiting to watch IW so one of them, apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Sajak posted:He served in uniform as a disc jockey during the Vietnam War for American Forces Vietnam Network.[4] Sajak hosted the same radio show that Adrian Cronauer had, and for 14 months followed Cronauer's tradition of signing on with "Good Morning Vietnam!"[5] e: but Cronauer is the one Robin Williams was playing
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May 9, 2018 02:16
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on effort.
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also Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis are different people
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May 11, 2018 06:28
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:That's incorrect. A false etymological history myth. lol did you just string together language words to sound impressive
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May 11, 2018 12:09
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:FAKE HISTORY STORY lol it's not, though, people use it because it was a meme in the print journalism industry in the late 20th century, not due to any "etymology myth" like nobody's saying "it's spelled lede because that's what's historically accurate" but congratulations on using all of your vocabulary words for the week in one sentence i guess
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May 11, 2018 15:00
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:these fools posting doge memes perpetuating a false etymology myth when everyone knows the proper spelling is dog
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May 11, 2018 23:03
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Last time I went shopping for a fridge it was really hard to find one that didn't come with an ice maker. Like, Lowe's and Home Depot only stocked fridges that came with ice makers and it was really annoying because I didn't want to give up fridge space for something I'm not going to use because ice trays in the freezer are perfectly sufficient
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May 22, 2018 18:11
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The companies do not want you to get to speak to a person and every time the methods of bypassing the robot system get too publicized they start changing. A lot of places no longer automatically reroute you if you press 0 or if you ask for a person or if you cuss, which I can only assume is because people found out that that worked and started doing it all the time to cheat and get to humans and the companies don't want to actually pay for staffing by humans so they shut down that poo poo down when it gets popular
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Dec 12, 2018 22:50
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EvilGenius posted:Also pro-tip that a lot of people don't realise - you don't have to wait for the IVR to stop talking before choosing an option. Just give it a second to process your key press and press the next option straight away if you know it. not always true but it usually doesn't mess anything up if it doesn't work so you can try it
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Dec 15, 2018 18:44
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Krankenstyle posted:Not sure but I think Eurasia includes Asia dude you said only people outside of Eurasia would know dance dance revolution, therefore asians wouldn't know it so what is this comeback supposed to be arguing? I'm confused about your point
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Dec 30, 2018 12:17
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Hipster_Doofus posted:drat you for making me look that up. Ursula Le Guin is a really good author and you should read her books and say thank you instead of drat you
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Lady Disdain posted:Video is called "footage" because film was measurable in feet. and because every famous director has a foot fetish (i "knew" this, your post I mean, but hadn't REALIZED it, so, poo poo, whoa)
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