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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Of the organs that are unique to us mammals, tits are more fun to play with than placentas.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

In the defense of the ancients who were naming things like other things they sort of looked like.... what OTHER substance was around at that time that was both white and liquid?

...

Because maybe we should be grateful for the milk metaphor instead of the option that only nuts would choose...

\ >.> Would you rather it be called after dough?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

I don't know, I prefer butts. Tits are nice, but only half the population have them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago

I like butts, but I prefer tits. I'm a simple man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

we can fix this by putting estrogen in the water. sorry in advance to all the trans guys; your sacrifice will be honored.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've never seen a perfect butt though. I've seen a great one, but it had a crack in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That's the best part!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

an amendable issue

[–] [email protected] 27 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"fastfouriertransfem" is a great username

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

You just know she wears programmer socks

[–] [email protected] 39 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

In German and Dutch it's way worse: "Säugetier" and "zoogdier". Both can roughly be translated to "sucking animals". I was taught in school that it's called that because babies suck on the mother's breasts to be fed and this is a unique trait to mammals. So in conclusion, we all suck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

in swedish it's basically that except we say "nursing animals", which is more specific

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

That sounds like a porno where nurses go wild.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Same in Slovene. Sesalec - Sucker.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I had to scroll back in my saved posts to a million years ago to resurrect this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

That metaphor (breasts as fruit) transcends language though. Whatever you call fruits you'll end up calling breasts. Here's the song of Solomon which was semetic.

I said, ‘I will go up to the palm tree; I will take hold of the boughs thereof.’ Now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples.

Instead of viewing things like this etymologically, it's better to see them as universal metaphors that transcend language and culture. Similar to light and darkness.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago

Thanks for surfacing this one, it's always fun to get the older perspective and realising they're very human.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

In polish mammals = ssaki, and ssaki = suckers

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

I've always thought my defining characteristic was my nipples.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Just wait till you know the etymology of mastodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon

Edit to save a click: "A mastodon, (from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós), meaning "breast, and ὀδούς (odoús) "tooth")"

Edit 2: the "mast" in "mastodon" is the same one as in "mastectomy"

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[–] sik0fewl 37 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ackshully, "galaxy" (or rather, "galaxias") means "Milky Way" already, it's just a translation. It was less ambiguous when the only galaxy we could see was the Milky lights that covered a lot of our sky.

Of course, we realize there's more than one galaxy now, so the meanings have diverged.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

And we didn't realize there was more than one galaxy until the 1920s (I think?)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

My son just called it "the tittieverse" and now I hate ALL of you.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This new naming scheme sounds like a great contribution to societitty.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

Contriboobtion

[–] [email protected] 21 points 19 hours ago
[–] hperrin 79 points 1 day ago (5 children)

To be fair, tits are pretty awesome.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Even heterosexual females enjoy a nice pair of boobies.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

And then she breasted boobily down the stairs.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago (8 children)

If y'all could please direct me to the thighs and calves galaxies I'll be on my way. I enjoy boobs as do most humans, but I am a legs man.

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