TheRtRevKaiser

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[–] TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago (21 children)

I think I'm too American to get this.

[–] TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

especially after getting that pawjob...

[–] TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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.

[–] TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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

[–] TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

It's like the hornier version of Steiner Math

[–] TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

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

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