Learned the word edulcorate. It meant to make something sweeter as in food, but now it means to make more palatable in general. I think it is a synonym for euphemism maybe in modern parlance.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
today I learned guinea pigs are not from guinea and are actually a domesticated livestock animal from the andes
Now I’m picturing a person on horseback working a massive herd of Guinea Pigs back into their fence.
I didn't learn this today but i did learn that we have no idea why they are called guinea pigs. The Wikipedia article mentions it i think, but we have no clue where the name came from or why it stuck around.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Middle English, going back to Old English earm, arm, going back to Germanic *arma-, masculine, (whence also Old Frisian erm "arm," Old Saxon arm, Old High German aram, arm, Old Norse armr, Gothic arms), going back to Indo-European *h2orH-mo-, whence also Old Church Slavic ramo "shoulder," Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian rȁme, stem rȁmen-, Czech ráměk; a parallel zero-grade *h2r̥H-mó- gives Old Prussian irmo "arm," Lithuanian (eastern dialects) ìrmėdė "pain from gout, chill, fever" (irm- "arm" + -ėdė "eating"), Sanskrit īrmá- "arm," Avestan arəma-; Latin armus "forequarter (of an animal), shoulder" probably goes back to *h2erH-mo-
NOTE: Usually claimed to be a derivative of the verb *h2er- "fit, join" (see ARM entry 3)—very plausible semantically—though the Sanskrit and Baltic forms require a second laryngeal (*h2erH-) in the base (cf. Rix et al., Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben, 2. Auflage, Wiesbaden, 2001, where the verbal base is posited without a second laryngeal). Could the suffix be *-H-mo-? The Slavic noun fluctuates in inflection between -mo- and -men- (see André Vaillant, Grammaire comparée des langues slaves, II:1 [Lyon, 1958], pp. 214-15). According to P. Schrijver, The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin (Amsterdam, 1991), p. 194, Latin armus cannot be traced to *h2r̥H-mo-, which would have yielded *ramus. Regarding Armenian armukn "elbow," see H. K. Martirosyan, Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon, Leiden, 2010, s.v.
My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
today I learned guinea pigs are not from guinea and are actually a domesticated livestock animal from the andes
Now I’m picturing a person on horseback working a massive herd of Guinea Pigs back into their fence.
I didn't learn this today but i did learn that we have no idea why they are called guinea pigs. The Wikipedia article mentions it i think, but we have no clue where the name came from or why it stuck around.
Did you know turkeys are named after the country Turkey, despite being from North America?
today I learned guinea pigs are not from guinea and are actually a domesticated livestock animal from the andes
Now I’m picturing a person on horseback working a massive herd of Guinea Pigs back into their fence.
I didn't learn this today but i did learn that we have no idea why they are called guinea pigs. The Wikipedia article mentions it i think, but we have no clue where the name came from or why it stuck around.
My theory that I just made up: they used to cost 21 shillings
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
TIL that Xaquin has NO CLOTHES NICE
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Guyana/Guiana is actually from a different origin.
Guinea is the old name for the region in West Africa, probably from a Portuguese corruption of an African language word (there's some debate as to which one language and word specifically). Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are part of that region, and that's the whole of it there (there were also a bunch of historical colonies that were just called [empire] Guinea).
New Guinea was named such because... the people looked like the people from the Guinea region, according to some old dead Spaniard. Papua is the traditional name of that island, hence the nation named Papua New Guinea now.
Meanwhile in South America a similar thing happened with a region that was known as the Guianas, from the indigenous term Guyana (meaning "land of many waters"). We see a similar imperial pattern there, with a bunch of colonies just named [empire] Guiana, although in this case there's still one left with that name in French Guiana. Suriname and parts of Venezuela and Brazil were also Guiana colonies at one point.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
I just learned that the loop on Naval sleeve insignia is called the executive curl, or Elliott's Eye
In a separate piece of idle browsing, I learned yesterday that my grade in the Civil Service is roughly equivalent to a Royal Navy Captain, which would only be relevant if I were on official business with the armed forces and they needed to work out which mess I should attend
Yeah, actually. He joined a new york psychotherapy cult which encouraged alcoholism and indiscriminate fucking, got way too into both, took a woman and her friend to a bar for an entire afternoon, then drove them all home and flipped his car, killing himself and the friend.
Yeah, actually. He joined a new york.psychotherapy cult which encouraged alcoholism and indiscriminate fucking, got way too into both, took a woman and his friend to a bar for an entire afternoon, then drove them all home and flipped his car, killing himself and the friend.
oh gracious
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I just learned that the loop on Naval sleeve insignia is called the executive curl, or Elliott's Eye
In a separate piece of idle browsing, I learned yesterday that my grade in the Civil Service is roughly equivalent to a Royal Navy Captain, which would only be relevant if I were on official business with the armed forces and they needed to work out which mess I should attend
It also means that in the event the real captain is incapacitated, you'll be responsible for landing the boat.
I just learned that the loop on Naval sleeve insignia is called the executive curl, or Elliott's Eye
In a separate piece of idle browsing, I learned yesterday that my grade in the Civil Service is roughly equivalent to a Royal Navy Captain, which would only be relevant if I were on official business with the armed forces and they needed to work out which mess I should attend
It also means that in the event the real captain is incapacitated, you'll be responsible for landing the boat.
I'll be too busy marrying people indiscriminately
[Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Speaking of movies: today I learned that The Goonies had a whole subplot about two gorillas escaping from the zoo and evading capture in the rich prick's Mustang
[Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited January 27
The century-old pecan tree in my back yard turns out to have a very healthy crop of lichen on its north side! I've lived in this house for five years and this is the first time it's been rainy and foggy enough for a long enough period for it to fully Hulk out, and I hadn't noticed it at all before now. Usually it just looks like bare brown bark.
Same, little green buddies. I also think this is the best available weather.
For contrast, here's what that same section of trunk looked like in June:
Jedoc on
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I learned yesterday that the sandworms of Dune apparently feed on smaller sandworms. This does not seem ecologically sustainable. My suspension of disbelief about the kilometre-long drug-secreting worms that find water poisonous has been ruined.
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raijin, driving never existed it was simply mass formation psychosis
there is only drifting
Where you get the mints they put on hotel pillows?
guinea
this world in a hundred kinds of dumb
You didn't forget how to drive, you got drunk.
AND HOW
One does not simply drift into Mordor
pssh shows what you know radagast
Radagast is the only person who can drift while riding a grizzly bear.
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Now I’m picturing a person on horseback working a massive herd of Guinea Pigs back into their fence.
I didn't learn this today but i did learn that we have no idea why they are called guinea pigs. The Wikipedia article mentions it i think, but we have no clue where the name came from or why it stuck around.
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Why is an arm called an arm?
Noun (1)
Middle English, going back to Old English earm, arm, going back to Germanic *arma-, masculine, (whence also Old Frisian erm "arm," Old Saxon arm, Old High German aram, arm, Old Norse armr, Gothic arms), going back to Indo-European *h2orH-mo-, whence also Old Church Slavic ramo "shoulder," Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian rȁme, stem rȁmen-, Czech ráměk; a parallel zero-grade *h2r̥H-mó- gives Old Prussian irmo "arm," Lithuanian (eastern dialects) ìrmėdė "pain from gout, chill, fever" (irm- "arm" + -ėdė "eating"), Sanskrit īrmá- "arm," Avestan arəma-; Latin armus "forequarter (of an animal), shoulder" probably goes back to *h2erH-mo-
Did you know turkeys are named after the country Turkey, despite being from North America?
My theory that I just made up: they used to cost 21 shillings
Guyana, equatorial guinea, paupa new guinea, etc...
Guinea is the old name for the region in West Africa, probably from a Portuguese corruption of an African language word (there's some debate as to which one language and word specifically). Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are part of that region, and that's the whole of it there (there were also a bunch of historical colonies that were just called [empire] Guinea).
New Guinea was named such because... the people looked like the people from the Guinea region, according to some old dead Spaniard. Papua is the traditional name of that island, hence the nation named Papua New Guinea now.
Meanwhile in South America a similar thing happened with a region that was known as the Guianas, from the indigenous term Guyana (meaning "land of many waters"). We see a similar imperial pattern there, with a bunch of colonies just named [empire] Guiana, although in this case there's still one left with that name in French Guiana. Suriname and parts of Venezuela and Brazil were also Guiana colonies at one point.
Where does Napoleon keep his armies?
In his sleevies.
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was it messy?
In a separate piece of idle browsing, I learned yesterday that my grade in the Civil Service is roughly equivalent to a Royal Navy Captain, which would only be relevant if I were on official business with the armed forces and they needed to work out which mess I should attend
Yeah, actually. He joined a new york psychotherapy cult which encouraged alcoholism and indiscriminate fucking, got way too into both, took a woman and her friend to a bar for an entire afternoon, then drove them all home and flipped his car, killing himself and the friend.
oh gracious
It also means that in the event the real captain is incapacitated, you'll be responsible for landing the boat.
I'll be too busy marrying people indiscriminately
Ed Harris is a fucking powerhouse
Same, little green buddies. I also think this is the best available weather.
For contrast, here's what that same section of trunk looked like in June:
I have not read any of the sequels
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