ATelegrafist

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Eget namn, men samma gamla telegrafist

The Germanic ancestor of ‘thing’ and its cognates, such as German ‘Ding’ and Danish ‘ting’, meant “folk assembly”. The Latin ancestor of the Romance words for “thing”, such as French ‘chose’ and Spanish ‘cosa’, meant “legal case”. My infographic shows how their meanings shifted to “matter; thing”.

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in other "it's bullshit that it works this way" news apparently making yourself actually do all of the shit on your list before you sit down to get distracted means you actually get to enjoy sitting down rather than torturing yourself with "I still have shit to do?" infuriating

Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.

decided to get Actually Serious about burning off some fat and have been doing cardio every single day rather than a couple times a week in addition to watching food more closely and I am so deeply annoyed that it is actually working I do exercise bike and it's Fine but seriously, fuck cardio

It won’t be too big of a surprise that ‘of’ and ‘off’ come from the same Old English word. However, if we go further back in time, it turns out they’re part of a huge word family that includes ‘after’, ‘ebb’, German ‘von’, ‘aber’, and Ancient Greek ‘apó’. Click my new graphic to learn more:

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‼️ Russia has abandoned the Black Sea for all types of shipping. First, the Black Sea fleet gave up and hid from drones in Novorossiysk. Now, oil loading has stopped in Novorossiysk, and all ships were warned that Russian waters are unsafe. Why, did something happen?💅

Om Odyssén skrivits på limerick istället för hexameter hade den varit kortare: Sångmö sjung om en man från Ithaka Som från Troja reste tillbaka Det gick inte så fort Som det kunde ha gjort För vägarna var inte raka