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[Dusty Substance]

You don't need to be logged into Facebook to use Facebook messenger. You can just go to messenger.com to catch up with messages without having the temptation of doomscrolling the hellscape of Facebook.

[Paul Calf]

South Park: The Fractured But Whole.

It's taken me nearly four years to spot the pun. I feel so stupid.

[gib]

Language is utterly infuriating. So many questions, and the answer is very often "We just don't know."

We don't know where the word 'dog' comes from.

'Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone' by Anatoly Liberman is alright for this sort of thing.

Another 08v10u5 thing that occurred to me a while ago is that people have lived by monuments like Stonehenge for about 10,000 years and at some point just collectively forgotten what they are and what they're for.

Small populations, no written record. The stones would have been fascinating to subsequent inhabitants but if you've got bigger worries like avoiding some plague or evil spirits or a boom in the bear population then the original builders' tribe might decide to fuck off elsewhere for a couple of generations. And then another tribe starts a load of grief, the stories get changed to suit the victors, that kind of thing.

[Dusty Substance]

South Park: The Fractured But Whole.

First time I've heard of this piece of South Park media but that gave me a proper laugh.

[bgmnts]

Before orange (the fruit) made its way from China to Europe, yellow-red was called simply that: yellow-red, or even just red. The English word 'orange', to describe the colour, ultimately comes from the Sanskrit term for the orange tree: nāraṅga.9 Mar 2018

Would have been better if it had a cool sounding word like kilrit or skibo but yellow-red makes sense.

[Paul Calf]

First time I've heard of this piece of South Park media but that gave me a proper laugh.

It's a video game so there's no particular reason that you'd have heard of it unless you play a lot of games.

[Sonny_Jim]

You don't need to be logged into Facebook to use Facebook messenger. You can just go to messenger.com to catch up with messages without having the temptation of doomscrolling the hellscape of Facebook.

In a similar vein, you can install Messenger Lite on Android (maybe Apple as well) and not have to install the main bloated as fuck Facebook App.

[mjwilson]

The Himba people are another fascinating example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgxyfqHRPoE
Even having it explained I still kinda believe I'm being trolled, because the greens are the same, and the blue is obvious.

It's OK, you are being trolled on that one, according to people who looked into it:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17970

[mjwilson]

Trying to think of other things that would be orange (so probably naturally occurring) in the 1500's.

I have seen it argued that the only reason we say "robin red-breast" is that the word orange didn't exist.

[Sebastian Cobb]

To be honest I can't say I've encountered 'robin red-breast' before.

[bakabaka]

To be honest I can't say I've encountered 'robin red-breast' before.

[Poobum]

It's OK, you are being trolled on that one, according to people who looked into it:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17970

Oh, that's very interesting to read, I definitely saw it on the BBC, and was confused at how hard it was to find again, guess that explains why.

[touchingcloth]

The Ancient Greeks had no word for "sky" so they just used to use the word "colour" instead, so they'd say "Zeus is up there in the colour throwing down his lightning".

[Paul Calf]

Cat Stevens converted to Islam in 1977. I thought it was much later than that.

[Paul Calf]

And actually supported the death sentence for Salman Rushdie for his alleged blasphemy.

[Paul Calf]

Why does Gervais like this arsehole so much?

[FredNurke]

I always thought his love of cats was one of his redeeming features, but you've taken even that away from him now.

[Icehaven]

There's a variety of rose called American Beauty, hence the film's title and the rose/rose petal theme etc.

[Paul Calf]

^ is that an ()8\/10|_|5 thing? I didn't know that.

[touchingcloth]

The Frasier theme is filthy twice. As well as the tossed salads, it has the line "I've got you pegged".

[NoSleep]

There's a variety of rose called American Beauty, hence the film's title and the rose/rose petal theme etc.

Grateful Dead released an album of that name in 1970 (probably their best known album, aside from possibly Workingman's Dead or Live Dead), with an illustration of the rose of the same name:

[Replies From View]

There is a type of horse called Terminator 2, which is why James Cameron opted to use it as his title (for Terminator 2).

[touchingcloth]

There is a type of horse called Terminator 2, which is why James Cameron opted to use it as his title (for Terminator 2).

Just googled this and it's true. Hat well and truly fucked.

[NoSleep]

There is a type of horse called Terminator 2, which is why James Cameron opted to use it as his title (for Terminator 2).

In the original script the juggernaut was not up against Arnie on a motorcycle.

[touchingcloth]

"Contact sport" means something different from what I thought, given that rugby is "full contact" while kickboxing is "semi contact".

[Norton Canes]

Venice is like some sort of island or shit

[seepage]

Not only that, it's an island on stilts.

[Norton Canes]

I mean 0bviously I knew it was all canals and that. I thought it was just a coastal city. Attached to the rest of the coast.

Basically I've gone through my whole life never having looked at a map of Venice.

[Norton Canes]

I only found out now because I've just taken delivery of the historian Roger Crowley's book City of Fortune - How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire and was looking at the map pages at the start. Well I don't mind telling you, this Roger Crowley fellow has already opened my mind to a few truths about Venice.

[Dusty Substance]

Basically I've gone through my whole life never having looked at a map of Venice.

I only realised just a couple of years ago where Venice is and for some reason always assumed it was down near the 'heel' of Italy.