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

id argue its also thinly veiled racism to imply black people are too stupid to understand clocks

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the difference between eating mushrooms and eating mold is the difference between oral sex and vore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

if ćevapčići is famine food call me starved

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

person operating the money printing machine deviously rubbing hands together:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

really? what did they tell you to eat for dinner?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

dun dun dun dudududun

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

its weird and lame middle english was killed off, particularly as theres old english available

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

to add a more narrowed-down starting point, i recommend everyone to look into epistemology. much of this follows from there

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

linguistics of color is interesting. classic example is russian having distinct words for light and dark blue as well (golubój/sínij respectively) with no generic "blue"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

quick heads up regarding half as interesting, i never really watch them but on the few occasions i have its been about something i have a lot of nerd knowledge about (languages) and they got a lot of even their basic facts wrong (such as calling a phoneme a "phenome"). id take all of their videos with a hefty helping of salt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

not sure how common a view this is but personally i find being well versed in art/literary/architectural history is a sign of a very well read person. knowledge in these areas usually comes hand in hand with trivia knowledge as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

they dont believe in capital g God but buddhism has plenty of gods for sure

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Dorulethy (beehaw.org)
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went looking for some post-rock adjacent stuff and stumbled upon this neat noisy/mathy/jazzy mix, vocals can get quite drowned in the mix but they have their charm too nonetheless

 

I was pondering differences between endonyms and exonyms, but then I started wondering where demonyms really, originally come from. I imagine it might come from the name of the leader of a group of people, that name becoming associated with that group as a whole and when people start mingling more it becomes a name associated with a whole people and so it dominos on, but if anybody has any good reads regarding it I'd be interested to check it out. I know that demonyms often come from place names but that also begs the question how those places got their names to begin with, or if its more often than not just a matter of "you call that place that hence we will call it that" à la Sahara Desert for example.

 
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