The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
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@benroyce @sundogplanets The Germans do this better: they just make compound words using their own words instead of borrowing Greek or Latin. It is less pompous. But a thousand years after the Norman Conquest we are still embarrassed about basic Anglo-Saxon words, so respectable people use French, Latin, or Greek words.
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
Biologists, take note. The term "Butt Fang" belongs in every scientific journal, immediately. Thank the niece and nephew for this gift to language.
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
Absolutely. And spotted wing drosophila are sawbutt flies
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biologists are no fun
there is the term "cloacal respiration"
when they could have called it "butt breathing"
(yes, this is a real thing, like in turtles)
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When my Duolingo German introduced me to krank for sick, I was more than bemused.
So many great words. I have appreciated being the recipient of years of downloading Germanic language into "English" -
The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
@sundogplanets Look, the thagomizer was named by a newspaper cartoonist, I feel like the butt fang can be named by your niblings.
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it might be real someday
in medical scenarios
and not with air but with oxygen carrying liquids like perfluorocarbons. like with preterm babies with underdeveloped lungs
the colon is a membrane. CO2 and O2 can diffuse across it
*not* efficient
but potentially life saving if your lungs are fucked up
If you ask how i know scientists got interested in this during covid when so many lost lung capacity and ECMO machines were in short supply
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666634021001549
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When my Duolingo German introduced me to krank for sick, I was more than bemused.
So many great words. I have appreciated being the recipient of years of downloading Germanic language into "English"Also the "be" in "bemused", is a germanic artifact. English words with the be in front are intensifiers or reflexive. To become, to bequest, to bemoan.
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Also the "be" in "bemused", is a germanic artifact. English words with the be in front are intensifiers or reflexive. To become, to bequest, to bemoan.
@intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
i am bemused to learn it!
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@intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
i am bemused to learn it!
Danke for the response (thank you)
Bedanke for the response (I thank you)
English is so frick'n German. !
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Danke for the response (thank you)
Bedanke for the response (I thank you)
English is so frick'n German. !
@intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
language evolution is fascinating
a favorite anecdote is we usually think of the term "shark" in "poolshark" "cardshark" etc as derived from the fish
no
the hustlers came first
the fish was named after the hustlers
we used to call them dogfish or tiburon as a loanword from spanish
but then we congealed around the concept that these fish were predators, like con men and scoundrels
and "shark" in english is from german schurke or dutch schurk: villain
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@intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
language evolution is fascinating
a favorite anecdote is we usually think of the term "shark" in "poolshark" "cardshark" etc as derived from the fish
no
the hustlers came first
the fish was named after the hustlers
we used to call them dogfish or tiburon as a loanword from spanish
but then we congealed around the concept that these fish were predators, like con men and scoundrels
and "shark" in english is from german schurke or dutch schurk: villain
@benroyce @intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
Cardinals (the birds) are named after cardinals (the Catholic officials.) because of the males' color matching the robes.
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@benroyce @intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
Cardinals (the birds) are named after cardinals (the Catholic officials.) because of the males' color matching the robes.
@cptbutton @intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
holy birds! 🤭
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@intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
language evolution is fascinating
a favorite anecdote is we usually think of the term "shark" in "poolshark" "cardshark" etc as derived from the fish
no
the hustlers came first
the fish was named after the hustlers
we used to call them dogfish or tiburon as a loanword from spanish
but then we congealed around the concept that these fish were predators, like con men and scoundrels
and "shark" in english is from german schurke or dutch schurk: villain
I am addicted to language podcasts, etc.
John McWhorter is great. (Great courses)
Rob Watts and Jess Zefarris have a great one - words unravelled (any platform for pods) Paired with writing (vs language) it blows my mind how we take for granted language. -
@intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
language evolution is fascinating
a favorite anecdote is we usually think of the term "shark" in "poolshark" "cardshark" etc as derived from the fish
no
the hustlers came first
the fish was named after the hustlers
we used to call them dogfish or tiburon as a loanword from spanish
but then we congealed around the concept that these fish were predators, like con men and scoundrels
and "shark" in english is from german schurke or dutch schurk: villain
@benroyce
Isn't cardshark (and perhaps poolshark?) an evolution from "sharp" though? -
@benroyce
Isn't cardshark (and perhaps poolshark?) an evolution from "sharp" though?@xinit @intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
i have no idea
i looked it up
verdict: it's complicated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sharp#Etymology_and_usage
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@sundogplanets I aspire to have a butt fang too
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@intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
language evolution is fascinating
a favorite anecdote is we usually think of the term "shark" in "poolshark" "cardshark" etc as derived from the fish
no
the hustlers came first
the fish was named after the hustlers
we used to call them dogfish or tiburon as a loanword from spanish
but then we congealed around the concept that these fish were predators, like con men and scoundrels
and "shark" in english is from german schurke or dutch schurk: villain
@benroyce @intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
Then there's "loan shark." Back in 2008, I was part of the successful campaign to cap payday lending interest at 20% or drive them from the city. They all bailed after the cap passed, now they are check cashing jounts. Car title lenders moved into the vacuum of course, there's alway another predator.
I made the Jaws-themed audio report below about the incident where DC's own Reverend Hagler threatened the manager of ACE Cash Express with a belt-whipping over those 391% APR loans they were writing:
I think we do need to rename the fish, even a Great White is only hunting to eat and cannot hold a candle to the vicious predators among our own species.
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@benroyce @intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
Then there's "loan shark." Back in 2008, I was part of the successful campaign to cap payday lending interest at 20% or drive them from the city. They all bailed after the cap passed, now they are check cashing jounts. Car title lenders moved into the vacuum of course, there's alway another predator.
I made the Jaws-themed audio report below about the incident where DC's own Reverend Hagler threatened the manager of ACE Cash Express with a belt-whipping over those 391% APR loans they were writing:
I think we do need to rename the fish, even a Great White is only hunting to eat and cannot hold a candle to the vicious predators among our own species.
@LukefromDC @intothewestaway @not2b @sundogplanets
excellent play
on fighting loansharks and the need to reverse the smear on the fish
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Also the "be" in "bemused", is a germanic artifact. English words with the be in front are intensifiers or reflexive. To become, to bequest, to bemoan.
