Hey UK you guys naming places "guinea" was pretty fucked up
Wait why
Guinea is literally just a pejorative term for somewhere far away
Wikipedia suggests it's a term for black people from west africa that was imported from spanish, who got it from portuguese.
Right, and then Guinea Pig and New Guinea were named following that despite having no relationship to West Africa, and Guinea was also used as a slur for Italians
Edit: though I guess a Spaniard named New Guinea
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Wasn't done watching PBS's The Roosevelts using the Netflix platform. Netflix removes it from my region unexpectedly.
I know this is along the lines of my mom asking "which one will be the bride and which one the groom" about a gay wedding, but in languages with gendered adjectives, which word ending do non-binary people take?
it's a lot stickier that the strict pronoun issue because the roots are deeper into grammar and muscle memory of speech.
many gendered noun languages don't have a genderless adjective ending and usually default male.
There was a really good explainer/article on vox about this a bit back. It went into how there is a big movement in younger folks in some of Latin America to develop gender neutral stuff that doesn't describe people as things but also works in the language. It was interesting.
Germany is struggling with the same thing right now.
Hey UK you guys naming places "guinea" was pretty fucked up
Wait why
Guinea is literally just a pejorative term for somewhere far away
Wikipedia suggests it's a term for black people from west africa that was imported from spanish, who got it from portuguese.
Right, and then Guinea Pig and New Guinea were named following that despite having no relationship to West Africa, and Guinea was also used as a slur for Italians
Edit: though I guess a Spaniard named New Guinea
The spanish named new guinea according to wiki:
However, the name New Guinea was later used by Westerners starting with the Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez in 1545, referring to the similarities of the indigenous people's appearance with the natives of the Guinea region of Africa. The name is one of several toponyms sharing similar etymologies, ultimately meaning "land of the blacks" or similar meanings, in reference to the dark skin of the inhabitants.
which is in line with it's use in the case of original guinea.
Guinea Pig seems a big old who-the-fuck-knows from the wiki page.
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I'm watching Ragnarok on Netflix. All the boys look like they got a chin bone disease and the main character is very close to having a bowl cut. What's the deal with your TV Norway?
yes, it does the super heavy drone-y doom thing that Sunn O))) is known for
but it's probably the most diverse dirt pedal on the market
running dirt alone, boost alone, or both just offers a ton of options for a single box
it does make realize a few things
1) the pickups in my mustang are just underpowered dogshit - i've been meaning to replace them for a year+ but a pedal with this much power onboard makes just highlights how little they add - going to place the order with dimarzio in the next week or so
2) i need an expression pedal - the octave control is a nice handy sometimes-feature, but i also have a reverb and a delay pedal with expression inputs so i should figure this out
Wait. How the fuck did Fortnite not already have skill based matchmaking?
Given the genre being just dropping 100 people on an island in a wild free-for all with immediate post-drop stuff being like "hope you get a gun before the guy next to you," I could understand a "let God sort them out" approach to matchmaking.
People will sometimes tell you that in Turkey, the turkey is called "the American bird." Actually, the Turkish name for the turkey is hindi. If that looks like the name of one of the main languages of India, that's because it is. The Turkish name means "[the bird] from India."
Next door to Turkey, in Arabic-speaking countries, the name for the turkey is dik rumi, "Roman chicken." In Israel it's tarnegol hodu, "rooster of India." In Greece, it's galopoula, which can mean "birdie" or "French chicken." The Khmer and Scots Gaelic names for it also mean "French chicken." But in France the turkey is dinde, which is shortened from poule d'Inde, "chicken of India."
In Belgium and the Netherlands, it's kalkoen. Kalkoen also shows up, as kalkun and kalkon, in Scandinavian languages. They're all cut-down names — from Calicut-hoen, "hen of Calicut." Calicut is a city in India, not to be mistaken for Calcutta. It's also known as Kozhikode, and it's a port in the southern state of Kerala. It had a lot of Portuguese trade starting in the 1500s.
Ah, yes, the Portuguese. What do they call the turkey? Peru. As in the country. That's also what it's called in Hindi.
I thought Columbus insisting on call them the Indies really messed things up, but it turns out it was because almost no one was sure where they came from.
The Portuguese didn't get the turkey from Calicut or anywhere else in India, of course. Their trade route — carrying spices and other goods — from India went up the African coast, where they picked up guinea-fowl, which are a lot like turkeys. They also picked up turkeys from Spanish traders coming from Mexico and sold them around Europe. But they didn't say where they got them from. Many people in Europe assumed they were from India, and in particular Calicut.
At the time, guinea-fowl were also popular, but they weren't called guinea-fowl. The English didn't know they were from the Guinea area of west Africa. The trade that brought them to England came through Turkey. So guinea-fowl were called turkey-cocks. When the American birds were brought over, they were at first thought to be the same thing. When the two species were sorted out, the American ones kept the name turkey. The Latin genus name for turkeys also kept the confusion: It's Meleagris, which was a Greek name for guinea-fowl.
And peru? Were the Portuguese being devious? No, it was probably just because at the time Peru was being used in Portuguese to refer to Spanish-speaking America in general.
I totally cannot get into FF14. It is too anime now. I am enjoying Neverwinter though. I am just level 17 now. I like the D&D flavor.
You mean the MMO Neverwinter?
No, not the AOL one. The new one.
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It's been a couple years since I last played Empyrion (Before Alpha 8 I think. They just released Alpha 11.5). For those not in the know, it's a survival/crafting/exploration game with procedurally generated planets, building vehicles out of blocks, and you can go to space and you get warp drives to travel between planets and star systems.
It's pretty robust at this point. The planet generating and mining and building are all pretty great. The FPS gunplay mechanics need another pass, I think, but they're passable at this point, and they've added quest chains and lots of complexes to find and explore.
And yeah, you can ignore the front door of these places and just use your hovertank to blow a hole in the wall to make your own door.
I downloaded a bunch of stuff from Steam Workshop because I suck at making things that look awesome. I finally got to a capital ship. When I played before, you could have capital ships and bases in space, but they didn't have internal oxygen worked out, so you couldn't just stay in them. You had to worry about your oxygen. That was added in Alpha 8, I think, so as long as the ship has oxygen in the O2 tanks, the inside is pressurized. So I was flying my capital ship around to new planets. Would launch my small ship off the landing pad on the back and use that to do some surveying. Once I found some rich resource nodes, fly the cap ship down, and take my mining craft out of the rear bay to pillage the planet for goods.
I found a super rare resource, but it had a ton of dudes guarding it, so I just said fuck it and used my mining craft to dig a hole a ways away and just tunneled underneath to get at the deposit.
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i'm going to assume this is all in jest but this conversation about the overlap between porn and art and the overall merits of it has some pretty odious, Puritan underpinnings
i'm going to assume this is all in jest but this conversation about the overlap between porn and art and the overall merits of it has some pretty odious, Puritan underpinnings
Y'all can't tell me that some of that classical art wasn't made because people wanted to jack it.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
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it's not. And it wasn't them who named it that, it was the portugese.
Wikipedia suggests it's a term for black people from west africa that was imported from spanish, who got it from portuguese.
Right, and then Guinea Pig and New Guinea were named following that despite having no relationship to West Africa, and Guinea was also used as a slur for Italians
Edit: though I guess a Spaniard named New Guinea
:long stare out window:
and that new york isn't even on the same continent as york?
Still mad about this one tbh
Oh shit rlly.. that's crazy 😬 u don't dream
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
You guys are completely fucking intolerable
can't you throw the rest of them a bone and call it New Wales at least
The spanish named new guinea according to wiki: which is in line with it's use in the case of original guinea.
Guinea Pig seems a big old who-the-fuck-knows from the wiki page.
Alice was the party girl and Eleanor was the boring gay aunt that was really into composting
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we call them marsvin, which in pronounciation is indistuingishable from mars swine (but it's from the german "little sea pigs")
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in french, they're turkey-pigs.
Named so due to being flightless, no doubt.
(Actually they're indian pigs but d'inde and dinde are homophones.)
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In Arabic, turkeys are called Roman roosters. So, we should start calling guinea pigs Roman-rooster-pigs.
You mean the MMO Neverwinter?
No, not the AOL one. The new one.
It's pretty robust at this point. The planet generating and mining and building are all pretty great. The FPS gunplay mechanics need another pass, I think, but they're passable at this point, and they've added quest chains and lots of complexes to find and explore.
And yeah, you can ignore the front door of these places and just use your hovertank to blow a hole in the wall to make your own door.
I downloaded a bunch of stuff from Steam Workshop because I suck at making things that look awesome. I finally got to a capital ship. When I played before, you could have capital ships and bases in space, but they didn't have internal oxygen worked out, so you couldn't just stay in them. You had to worry about your oxygen. That was added in Alpha 8, I think, so as long as the ship has oxygen in the O2 tanks, the inside is pressurized. So I was flying my capital ship around to new planets. Would launch my small ship off the landing pad on the back and use that to do some surveying. Once I found some rich resource nodes, fly the cap ship down, and take my mining craft out of the rear bay to pillage the planet for goods.
I found a super rare resource, but it had a ton of dudes guarding it, so I just said fuck it and used my mining craft to dig a hole a ways away and just tunneled underneath to get at the deposit.
Both are derived from the name of electronic musician Bjork.
but they're listening to every word I say
I promptly logged out.
Y'all can't tell me that some of that classical art wasn't made because people wanted to jack it.
but they're listening to every word I say
I get the business case for it - retail outlets and such - but a channel of nothing but ads is still a little odd to think about