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  • I think I'm too American to get this.

  • So, disclaimer here that I'm not a linguist, I just enjoy learning about linguistics.

    OED doesn't have a Norman ancestor for English wasp - it goes back through Old English (wæfs, wæps, wæsp) to Saxon and Middle German/Dutch all the way back to pre-Germanic.

    My guess here was that there's a common Proto-Indo-European ancestor and Wiktionary, FWIW, agrees - they provide a reconstructed P.I.E word: *wóbʰseh₂ (“wasp”)

    ETA: here's the link to the OED online's etymology page and a screenshot of it if you don't have access through your library.

  • That's...my point?

  • It's called "metathesis". We did it over hundreds of years with 'bird' which was originally 'brid' or 'bridd', and 'wasp' which was originally 'waps', apparently.

  • NSFW

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  • especially after getting that pawjob...

  • This isn't even close to being true. 83% of black voters backed Harris in 2024, with 15% voting for Trump. That's notable because it's a significant decrease from Biden receiving 92% of the black vote, but whites are the only major racial group of which the majority voted for Trump in 2024.

  • If only this picture had more jpeg artifacts. I can almost read the text on this one... 😅

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  • It's NYT Pitchbot. They're a pretty well known satire account

  • Makes me miss the days when Polygon wasn't a hollowed out husk of its former self and was making art like this

  • Pretty sure this blog is fully ChatGPT text. All the signs are there, em dashes all over the place, "It's not just x; it's y", lists of adjectives. Also, this is basically just an ad.

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  • Mad Gab/Incohearent are essentially this. They're fun little party games

  • Even the label doesn't want to go to Alabama.

  • Botox

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  • Botox injections are used as a treatment for migraines sometimes, so it wouldn't be that weird for this conversation to happen in that context. (I know it's a joke)

  • He just said he was on a hill...

  • ¿Por qué no los dos?

  • Jesus Christ what a sentence...

  • Heroes

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  • You can blame the French for "queue", it was like that when we got it.