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fubo,

The English words “video”, “visual”, and “view” are all from the same Latin root, but imported into English from Latin and French at different points in history. The letters “vi” are not pronounced the same in any two of them.

This kind of shit just happens with language. It’s normal.

fubo,

This is very popular in newspaper headlines. It’s sometimes called a “noun pile”.

Times chief editor: Thirteen-word headline noun pile author firing race controversy rebuttal!

(That is: “The chief editor of the Times has responded in the matter of the firing of headline writer Joe Jones. Jones alleged that his firing from the Times was due to racial bias. However, the chief editor claims in response, that Jones was fired for writing a headline composed of nothing but thirteen nouns.”)

Beer pong is a party game played on a table. If you put the table in the pool, you can play water beer pong. Attach some floats so it doesn’t sink, and it is a water beer pong table. If you then strap a skimpy swimsuit to that table, the swimsuit is a water beer pong table thong.

fubo,

Englishes have words for the second-person plural pronoun, but Standard English doesn’t have one word for it.

If two speakers are from the same background, they probably share a word for it. If they’re from different places or different races, they might not.

fubo, (edited )

Hieroglyphs were used for different things! They weren’t always used to denote sounds, but sometimes whole words or parts of words. Some of the ways they were interpreted could seem like puns or puzzles today.

To make a very loose analogy, with emoji as hieroglyphs:

  • 🦆 — can stand for a duck, the actual waterbird
  • 🦆u — here, the sound duck is modified by another sign. This is the word duke.
  • 🦆o — similarly, this is dock.
  • 📐🦆 — by combining the signs for triangle and duck, we spell out the pronunciation of the word truck.
  • (🦒🦆🦒🦉📰) — the name Jack Jones, spelled as giraffe duck giraffe owl news.

This is an analogy; the point is that the same sign could be used for different things, especially at different times in history.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs#Writin…

fubo,

It’s a dishonest accountant’s birthday.

You give them a cake in the shape of a book that’s on fire.

This is a bad joke and they are mad at you.

To let the cat out of the bag: Idioms are always like this.

fubo,

In some Caribbean Englishes, the pronunciations of the words “can” and “can’t”, which are opposites, differ only in vowel length: kyan, kyaan.

fubo,

“Ah, then my decision to shun you and tell everyone I know to do the same … that is also preordained, and you mustn’t hold me responsible for doing so.”

fubo,

Randomness doesn’t really save traditional free will. A robot that selects its actions by rolling dice is not any more “free to choose” than a robot that selects its actions according to a deterministic program. There isn’t any free-will juice that gets introduced by adding randomness.

Your “free will” is the process by which you select actions. For humans, that’s a bunch of physics and chemistry happening in your brain; it receives influences from your senses, your body, and its own self-awareness (i.e. its model of you, your actions, tendencies, etc.). Whether that process depends closely on QM, or is boringly classical, doesn’t control how “self-determined” it is.

fubo,

It is certainly possible to adjust some measurable elements of personality. For example, use of psilocybin (magic mushrooms) has been shown to alter measurable personality factors.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220878/
www.google.com/search?q=psilocybin+and+personalit…

fubo,

Nope.

fubo,

It’s not tuition, but rather openings for students and residents. If you want more people to receive more health care, you need more doctor hours. Which means more doctors. Which means there need to be more spots in medical schools and residencies. These are currently scarce.

fubo,
  1. Train a lot more doctors.
fubo,

Also, she was already married, and pregnant with someone else’s child.

In the immortal words of Dave Barry, I am not making this up.

fubo,

“I really don’t think of you, or Twilight Sparkle, in that way.”

(A flirty acquaintance had sent me unsolicited erotic My Little Pony fanart.)

fubo,

For context, check this poster’s other recent works. They have a mistaken belief that they stand in a position of power & authority over the developers of free software they use.

fubo,

The visibility of long-COVID has led people to reevaluate whether other viruses cause “long” syndromes. It looks like rhinovirus (aka “the common cold”) can, too.

There are other viruses that were already known to cause “long” symptoms, often due to damage caused to the nervous system by the virus or the immune response. Post-polio syndrome has been known for a long time, for example.

fubo, (edited )

Well no, prostitution is specifically the form of work that involves delivering sexual experiences to clients; just as bricklaying is the form of work that involves installing bricks in an organized fashion onto clients’ property. Bricklaying doesn’t normally involve sexual experiences, and prostitution doesn’t normally involve bricks, but both are work.

Prostitution is also performance work, which is a category that also includes acting, music, and pro wrestling. It is also body work (that is, the worker does something to the client’s body); which is a category that also includes massage, surgery, and hairstyling.

A mildly interesting Michael Moorcock/MCU connection or coincidence

I’m currently (re)reading Moorcock’s The War Hound and the World’s Pain. Short synopsis - an educated, cynical, apostate and unapologetically brutal mercenary in the Middle Ages is recruited by Lucifer to recover the Holy Grail, nominally so that Lucifer can wheedle his way back into God’s good graces....

fubo,

Curiously enough, Marvel Groot is first, having appeared in 1960, while the Moorcock novel is from 1981.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groot
en.wikipedia.org/…/The_War_Hound_and_the_World's_…

fubo, (edited )

“Groot” is also the Dutch cognate to the English word “great”.

There are plenty of Dutch words and names that are close enough to English to sound really funny to English-speakers. Like, Vroom is a real Dutch surname, but to American kids that’s the sound a cool car makes.

(In one of the Baroque Cycle books, Neal Stephenson needed a name for a Dutch shipwright who built really fast sailing ships. Who else could it be but Jan Vroom?)

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