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Phy posted:At least "moose" comes from an Algonquin word Yeah, moose/elk were extinct in Britain for a long time by then. The Brits knew that "Elk" meant big rear end deer because other parts of Europe had them still, but most of them had never seen one. On top of that, many of the areas they landed don't have moose. North American Elk look like British deer but larger, so obviously that must be the Elk thing we keep hearing about! In areas that have both elk and moose, they used different names but the Deer = Elk side must have argued better when it came time to square up all the names for stuff.
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Fun moose fact: Predators of moose include humans of course, bears, wolves, siberian tigers, and orcas.Memento posted:Things here can sneak up on you, would be my guess. But yeah, I would absolutely prefer snakes and spiders to things like the North American fauna where it can decide you look tasty and just eat you. In like 4 more years we'll have eradicated all the dangerous ones here through territory destruction. Australia is 90% uninhabitable by humans, so the dangerous animals can all prosper.
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The unicode people are too cheap to have artists so only the code that generates them is universal. As long as every platform shows clapping, that's all they care about.
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Jan 6, 2021 16:04
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The Springsteen version is also about cars. Springsteen was told his debut album didn't have a good commercial single, so he just hit up a rhyming dictionary to try to make one.
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Jan 26, 2021 18:50
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Organza Quiz posted:Stuff I can't believe people haven't figured out (aiming to be helpful in a useful-going-forward sense, not rude, but I know it's a fine line): language evolves by consensus, spellings and grammar change and the original spelling or even meaning of a particular word or phrase is not the True Meaning That Must Always Remain and which people need to be corrected on. The only time people need correcting on that stuff is if they ask for help or possibly if they're a language learner but even then the better tactic is to model the correct usage for them rather than correct directly. Except French, where it's actually regulated. In Quebec those assholes even have an enforcement arm.
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Mar 16, 2021 14:52
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It's Critical Role fans now.
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Mar 16, 2021 16:57
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I had no symptoms for shot 1 of Moderna. I hope it’s not antibody related because we have to wait 16 weeks here and I’ll presumably have a lot more of that then than a 3 week gap.
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Mar 20, 2021 07:28
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Now we're talking about a catalog book of books about books. Just something we all had lying around.
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Apr 19, 2021 15:31
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Do Australians just think of north as down?
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Apr 22, 2021 14:58
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Failed Imagineer posted:Clapton sucks, all he ever did was play wack uninspired blues pentatonic poo poo that he ripped off from BB King Muddy Waters et al anyway. Plus he's a legendary rear end in a top hat, had a Michael Richards-esque racist rant onstage at one point, and now is a full-on COVID truther. The Rock Against Racism series of concerts was specifically a response to Clapton.
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Jul 24, 2021 21:56
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There's also the dipping sauce frequently called marinara that's really just tomato paste with some chunks thrown in. For when you're being fancy on a date night.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:No one who double spaces cares if you only use single spaces. But people who use single spaces will lose their loving minds if you double space. The forums (at least on Firefox) display double spacing as single.
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Mar 15, 2022 15:11
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I know other vBulletin sites always did that. I assume that code is still alive in old Frankenstein here. Nonbreaking spaces work too.
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's the same word, it means "a lot." Not literally, literally it means "good hit." I guess in a sense of like getting something right on target, the most of that you can be maybe. "Bien sur" means "of course" but it's literally "well on" as in on top of. No, it’s from coup somehow evolving from strike to mean heap. So it just literally means a big pile and so “a lot”. Online this evolution is presented matter of factly as if of course slap became pile, why wouldn’t it? I don’t see the link though. Aphrodite has a new favorite as of 06:41 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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No slip floor.
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a cyborg mug posted:I’ve got some real bad news about onomatopoeia in diff languages for you In French, bees don’t buzz. They bourdonner.
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Amoeba102 posted:The simpsons episode Last exit to Springfield is two clicks away from 9/11 on wikipedia. Yeah but The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson is 1.
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Mar 22, 2024 16:15
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It's fine. ...I mean, I'm sure she'd say it's fine.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:02
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That's like the worst possible example you can use, because the point of the movie is the guy coming for him is on the 12:00 train.
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Apr 8, 2024 19:20
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Cowboys are fictional, dummy.
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Apr 9, 2024 13:57
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Isn't that everything he did after Friends? And most of Friends?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Dunno I didn't watch Friends. But I thought he was a comedian or something? If I remember right, they actually hired him because he was a big Fallout fan.
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