Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Banana@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  RIGHT?! I’m glad I’m not the only one. It’s based on the term NUCLEUS ffs.

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Common misconception but it’s actually based on Saint Nukulus, the guy that puts uranium in your boots if you leave them out overnight.

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Did you know he was a real-life engineer in ancient Turducky?

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now, to be fair, nucleus it comes from the latin nuculus. It just that it sounds bad and feels bad to say

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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes officer, she touched my nuculus.

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    • Banana@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Noooooo my whole worldviewww

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      • blibla@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        dw it’s not true, you were right, “nucleus” is already latin

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        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleus?wprov=sfla1

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  • ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nuculeus

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    • ArchEngel@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nuculeuslear

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    • Banana@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      😩

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    nuculus*

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    • Banana@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      🥺

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• Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fun fact: “nuclear” ultimately comes from the Latin nuculus, ‘little nut’. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing “ask” as “ax”.

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  • Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?

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    • Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      went further back lol

      Latin: Nux - nut nuculus - diminutive of nut (“little nut”)

      Proto-Indo-European: kneu - nut

      I can’t find much on where the -culus suffix originated, which seams to be the the place we would want to look if trying to tie the pronunciation of nuclear to the earliest etymological root.

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      • GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        -ulus according to Wiktionary:
        From Proto-Italic *-elos (whence Faliscan -𐌄𐌋𐌏𐌔 (-elos)), from Proto-Indo-European *-elós, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lós.[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *-ilaz and *-ulaz, whence no longer productive English -le (as in dimple and nozzle), Dutch -el, German -el.

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  • Morphit@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did I ax you?

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