how did they learn to translate languages into other languages how did they know which words meant what HOW DID TH
English Person: *Points at an apple* Apple
French Person: Non c’est une fucking pomme
*800 years of war*
Fun fact: There are a lot of rivers in the UK named “avon” because the Romans arrived and asked the Celts what the rivers were called. The Celts answered “avon.”
“Avon” is just the Celtic word for river.
Fan Fact #2: When Spanish conquistadors landed in the Yucatán peninsula, they asked the natives what their land was called and they responded “Yucatán”. In 2015, it was discovered that in those mesoamerican languages, “Yucatán” meant “I don’t understand what you are saying”
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I love entomology so much because so many words kind of happened by accident or by a native speaker trying to say “WTF are you saying?“
Me: “I want to call Tiamat “mommy,” maybe if I do, she won’t fight us.“ DM: “No.” Me: “What, does she have an ability that prevents me from calling her mommy?”
nothing compares to my adoration of the breath of the wild guardian concept art, like the final design of the guardians with their otherworldly mechanical look, spider legs and theme are a bit unnerving already, but god could you imagine exploring hyrule field for the first time after gliding down from the great plateau and the music shifts suddenly because one of these things sees you and is running straight for you
another day of reading victorian accounts of stigmaria fossils…..seeing some hot takes from 1848
dr. j. hooker be like ‘m. goeppert believes these fossils to be related directly to modern cycads because they both have cones. it doesnt matter to him that cycads have separate male and female sexual structures with seeds and the fossils in question are one sex and have spores. by m goeppert’s logic i suppose we should all consider cycads and palms to be related because they both have leaves that look kind of similar, and we should think asian pitcher plants and australian pitcher plants to be directly related because they both have pitchers. do you hear how much of a fool you sound like, good sir. you jester. you absolute fucking buffoon’
My favorite thing about being a transplant from Colorado to western Washington is that nobody knows how to deal with snow. I just watched my neighbor scoop snow off her windshield with a soup ladle.
I almost scrolled past this but my mom was a janitor too. PSA.
PSA Just because someone is paid to sweep the floors doesn’t mean you’re allowed to leave your shit all over the place. Clean up after yourself and teach your kids to do the same.
