Karlillo@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 9 months agoWhat's some common knowledge that you just found out recently?message-squaremessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down15
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squareWhat's some common knowledge that you just found out recently?Karlillo@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square121fedilink
minus-squarehushable@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up41arrow-down2·9 months agoA pancake is a cake you make in a pan. It broke my mind when I learned that one
minus-squareace_garp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·9 months ago…and when you take a detour, you are getting off your original tour. (Tour de France, tour of the countryside, etc) Hence, why you de-tour. Did everyone work this out at first glance? The etymology of ‘detour’ took me way too long.
minus-squareoneiros@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up18·9 months agoAlong these lines, I recently learned: Painstakingly is pains + takingly (as in “took great pains”), not pain + stakingly. Helicopter is helico + pter (“spiral wing”), not heli + copter. In linguistics, this phenomenon is called rebracketing.
minus-squareace_garp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoI never knew those two either. Love the helico-pter one. Of course!
minus-squareMataVatnik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoWell, I’m there with you buddy. This is the first I see it.
minus-squareHamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·9 months agoWait until you hear about butterflies and dragonflies.
minus-squarepaddirn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 months agoButterflies, flies that you make with butter.
minus-squareHamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoJust like the way a snowman is a man made of snow.
minus-squarehushable@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoplease don’t tell me I been using them wrong
A pancake is a cake you make in a pan.
It broke my mind when I learned that one
…and when you take a detour, you are getting off your original tour. (Tour de France, tour of the countryside, etc)
Hence, why you de-tour.
Did everyone work this out at first glance? The etymology of ‘detour’ took me way too long.
Along these lines, I recently learned:
Painstakingly is pains + takingly (as in “took great pains”), not pain + stakingly.
Helicopter is helico + pter (“spiral wing”), not heli + copter.
In linguistics, this phenomenon is called rebracketing.
TIL
I never knew those two either.
Love the helico-pter one. Of course!
Well, I’m there with you buddy. This is the first I see it.
Wait until you hear about butterflies and dragonflies.
Butterflies, flies that you make with butter.
Just like the way a snowman is a man made of snow.
So a woman is made of wo(e)?
Woah, man!
Have you heard about asswipes
please don’t tell me I been using them wrong
wtfffff
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