It's sort of apt by mistake, but it's still stupid

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• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love phrases that are repetitions in different languages

  The Los Angeles Angels - The The Angels Angels

  And so on

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My favorite:
    The La Brea Tar Pits
    The The Tar Tar Pits

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shut up and help me find an automated teller machine machine so I can buy a ticket to the game.

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t forget your personal identification number number!

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  • FoxyGrandpa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t learn my ABCs AABBCC God God dammit dammit

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    • the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Miss you, Mitch.

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  • cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hehe. Never heard of that one. I want to know how aware these people are when they name things. In sports, a bit of humor is probably common, but with the neanderthals, I just don’t see the high-strung scientists of the late 1800’s intentionally making a joke on this kind of thing. I do however see them doubling down on a decision even if it’s pointed out that it’s stupid.

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  • GentriFriedRice@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then you’ll love the List of tautological place names

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    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks! Idk why but I can never remember the word “tautological”

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• Mr_Fish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My favorite is still Torpenhow hill in Wales. Translated: hill hill hill hill.

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  • cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That one takes the cake! How does that happen? Is there welsh, saxon and latin in there or something?

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      • Tor, from Old English torr, meaning hill.
      • Pen, from Celtic *penn, meaning hill.
      • How, from Danish hoh, meaning hill.
      • Hill, from English hill, meaning hill.

      ^Unfortunately,^ ^it’s^ ^not^ ^actually^ ^a^ ^real^ ^official^ ^name^ ^for^ ^a^ ^hill,^ ^though^ ^it^ ^could^ ^be…^

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    • Skua@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It's actually in England, although funnily enough the part of England it's in is called Cumbria, which has the same origin as the Welsh for Wales "Cymru". So it's sort of in Wales, just not the Wales that we call Wales in English.

      Anyway it's Old English torr, Middle Welsh penn, and Danish hoh. And like many British place names the pronunciation is not what you would expect at all at first glance. It's "tra-pen-uh"

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  brought to you by the department of redundancy department

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• cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t want to brag, but I learned this from a book

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  • XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Books are cool.

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    • cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      nerd

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  worst part for me as a swede is that it ends up being interpreted to mean “neander speaker”, since “thal” becomse “tal” which means speech in swedish…

  so not only is there the standard “neanderthals stupid and primitive” association, but also there’s the added layer of implication that they spoke weird!

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  • cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They did speak weird though! Analysis of their airways suggest that they had a much higher-pitched voice than our kind, and probably had a harder time with consonants. So their language would have certainly been different. Although we have no way of knowing if parts of their language still lives on in our speech today.

    Men visst, “talare” blir lite roligt på svenska

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yeah but like, they most likely weren’t going “unga bunga, gurg want hunt mammoth, gurg make pointy stick, ook ook”

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• rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  According to Wikipedia, the Neandertal (the valley) was named after 17th century priest and composer Joachim Neander. Where does the “new man” come in?

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  • youstolemyname@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Etymology

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    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Alright, that explains.

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  • cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right, so I seem to have gotten it wrong on his name. It was Neander (New Man in greek) rather than Neumann (New Man in german), but I should also have specified in the meme that the name means New Man.

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• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait until OP hears about the laola wave.

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