fun fact: the word "prosthetic" comes from the greek word πρόσθεση (prosthesi[1]), meaning addition
fun fact: the auto- prefix (e.g. automobile, autodefenestration, etc.), means "self" in English. But in Greek (at least, Modern Greek), "αυτό" just means "it" (3rd person neuter singular pronoun) and is pronounced "afto"
fun fact: "diaeresis" (those two dots on ä ë ï ö ü (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH GERMAN'S UMLAUT. VERY DIFFERENT THINGS), example: naïve) comes from the Greek word διαίρεση (dieresi[1][2]), meaning "division"
fun fact: there is a word in Spanish for "pulling an all-nighter", "trasnochar". It comes from "trans" (happy pride month), meaning "across", and "noche", meaning "night". Because you're staying awake across the entire night
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The default length of pasta is designed to fit on a supermarket shelf, not to be the best length for cooking/eating.
Feel free to break it to any length you want (don't let the Italians know I said this)
Do you have tips for how to familiarize yourself with the tumblr ui for those migrating from twitter
Remember, if you like a post, it's important to share it with your followers so they can see it too!
(Sharing a post, huh? I think I can do that with the Reblog button...)
The Reblog button is located at the bottom of a post. Be sure to press it whenever you want to share a post! Your likes are not automatically shown to your followers, so pressing the like button alone isn't enough.
The bean jar
BRITANNICA??? LIKE THE ENCYCLOPEDIA??
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My sister Britannica has been calling the new Pope “Pope Bobby”. Is this blasphemy?
…I don’t believe that would be considered blasphemy, but please politely ask her to stop
it's almost almost christmas
WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT IT'S CALLED NEWS BECAUSE IT'S THE PLURAL OF "NEW"??!??
one of those false etymology posts but with the actual etymology of the word
i have no regrets on my names
when picking the team name in pmd gates to infinity, i noticed that the partner automatically put "the" at the beginning. so i knew what i had to do.
i’m rotating our little moth guy in my mind
[any pronouns] a bisexual furry who's a computer science nerd, who also happens to be into linguistics and crochet. languages: english, español, ελληνικά, and toki pona
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