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imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do you mean entomologists rather than etymologists?

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  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The typo kind of makes sense though. The Gods are etymologists who study the language of the bugs. It’s why they understand prayer. Entomological etymologists.

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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Entomolinguist

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        i suppose insects are entomonolingual

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Entomologist: From French entomologie, from Ancient Greek éntomon (insect) + -logie (from Ancient Greek -logía (from “lógos” - explanation)).

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    • F04118F@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly as asked. The etymologist to explain the etymology of entomologist.

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    • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      <3

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  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    <3

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  • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Of course there’s an xkcd for everything!

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• imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You know how we like put shoes on ants right feet and it makes them go around in circles because they don’t understand what’s going on. Normally they can walk just fine? Now That’s a fun curse

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here’s a relevant post

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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It mises the “good enough” human approximations of the “true names” when the latter is impossible for humans to pronounce: it doesn’t have to be the exact correct pronunciation. If the Ants can’t make the -lk- or -nt- sounds of my screen name and chant “Lennivekat”, It’s close enough that I get they mean me. I might try to teach them the correct pronunciation, then probably give up and ask what they actually want.

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  • NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s like that movie vivarium or the show from, you keep driving trying to leave but keep passing the same houses after hours of trying

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    honestly i feel like an even more fey curse would be always ending up only slightly to the left of where you intended, cursed to never enter a doorway successfully.

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    • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Really really like that very true.

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• CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s a story element in Babylon 5. Some of the ancient alien races had evolved to the level of gods. One of them guided several alien races, in our case creating the myth of angels.

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• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Piquing a demigods’s curiosity, returning to your home city and finding it’s been turned to metal and everyone is fused into the walls/floors.

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• tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  shows the cruel indifference of many of the gods

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.

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• flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just that so far no gods have materialized in our world to study or even interact with us :/

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  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Beyond our understanding! Fifth dimensional!

    But yeah

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