Yeah the term “shrieking heebie jeebies” springs to mind.
Good point about the personality though, somehow the hyperlibertarian scammer thing they have going on makes them feel less threatening, although I guess that should probably make them even more horrifying?
lol and here I was thinking I had a gap in my Trek trek meme knowledge.
Also, don’t be too hard on yourself: considering the frankly ridiculous amount of information that we modern humans cram into our craniums, tripping up on an actor’s name is prettty minor 😀
Ha, I never actually paid attention to that. I think the fact that I’m not a native English speaker could be why “dampener” never sounded weird to me.
Although looks like the Oxford English Dictionary says both have the meaning “thing or person that has a restraining or subduing effect”, so I guess they’d both be correct in that sense?
Lol szönözökémül. I get what you mean though, Hungarian is such a distant relative of Finnish that it’s not mutually intelligible with Finnish in any way, so it feels just as alien to me. The grammar has some familiar constructs and there’s like a handful of words that, when they were specifically pointed out to me and I was told it’s the same as some word in Finnish, I went “oh right I can see how those are related” but I would never have noticed them otherwise.
At least Finnish has related languages but eg. Basque speakers will never hear a foreign language that makes their brain go “I totally understand this! Trust me nothing will go wrong!”, and how sad is that?
I studied German around 3000 years ago and Dutch feels somewhat more intelligible to me (at least when reading it, heh) compared to Estonian; it really does sound like someone took English and German and made them do unspeakable things to each other. German & Dutch definitely are a good enough comparison in any case, and I guess eg. Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and maybe Romanian might be too.
But even eg. Italian and German are related, even though it’s not immediately obvious. You Indo-European speakers are surrounded by related languages, and here’s us, the Estonians, the Sámi and a bunch of dying minority cultures in Russia speaking our crazy moon speaks that nobody understands.