GandalftheBlack
@GandalftheBlack@feddit.org
- Comment on So Deep 5 days ago:
Scotland has entered the chat
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yep, the Shire specifically
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m not from the US
- Comment on 1 week ago:
A lot of us, apparently
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 2 weeks ago:
Sebastiàn liked his own message
- Comment on Deep Time 3 weeks ago:
I thought this was about the grass until I actually looked at the dinosaurs in the picture
- Comment on Inbred cat 4 weeks ago:
It’s always the people with all the dough doing whatever they want. It’s a kneedless display of flour.
- Comment on Science wins again 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, placebo and nocebo are future tense “I will please” “I will harm”
- Comment on Banana scale 1 month ago:
“Computer, enhance!”
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 1 month ago:
Two things can be disgusting
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 1 month ago:
Yeah, the commercially available baked beans (not baked) are in a horrible sweet tomato sauce. I haven’t eaten any in a long time.
- Comment on Diced Giant Steak 1 month ago:
Soup, the great equaliser
- Comment on Latin names suck 2 months ago:
This isn’t really true though. Although many IE langauges don’t use a descendant of *h₂r̥ktos, plenty of languages do, e.g. French ours, Albanian ari, Greek άρκτος, Welsh arth etc.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 2 months ago:
TIL Scotland and Wales don’t exist
- Comment on It really is 2 months ago:
Hapax blepomenon
- Comment on New thing to ponder just dropped 2 months ago:
Not sure it’s a new thing to ponder, but it certainly is something to ponder.
- Comment on Anon has a bully 2 months ago:
*would be worth it
- Comment on This one goes out to Dennis Prager 2 months ago:
The m in mpreg stands for mouse
- Comment on 3 months ago:
If it was Latin, the singular would be octoped(e) and the plural would be octopedes
- Comment on nice chompers 3 months ago:
Little known fact, halberds used to be covered in feathers, but they didn’t survive in the archaeological record
- Comment on Angels 🥹 3 months ago:
And in German a bat is a Fledermaus, which literally means “wing-mouse”
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- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 3 months ago:
Graham Hancock moment
- Comment on Wendnesday 3 months ago:
Is the n in Germanic words for ten not just a reflex of m in PIE *dekm̥t?
- Comment on Wendnesday 3 months ago:
We started pronouncing it Febuary instead of February to match January. From Wiktionary:
The pronunciation of the first r as /j/ has come about by dissimilation and analogy with January. In the UK pronunciation /ˈfɛb.ɹi/ (*Febry) the sequence /ɹə.ɹi/ in /ˈfɛb.ɹə.ɹi/ (*Febrery) is simplified to /ɹi/ by haplology.Also, we should bring back the Old English solmōnaþ (“mud month”).
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 months ago:
No worries! Sorry if I came across as overly abrasive about someþing þat doesn’t really matter, I just really dislike misguided prescriptivism
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 months ago:
Stop talking about the “correct” usage. This is an idea based on how it’s used in one particular context. The and thorn were used interchangeably by English scribes for centuries, so there’s nothing wrong with using thorn exclusively.
- Comment on Force of habit 3 months ago:
1280
- Comment on Force of habit 3 months ago:
Its only natural, 'spelling mi’stake’s ba’sed on a mi’sunder’standing of 'spelling convention’s have been happening for thou’sand’s of year’s
- Comment on Banana 3 months ago:
This is why bananas are cheaper in the UK than in Brazil