TIL: Today I Learned

[metatron]

TIL:

Virtually every continental European language uses the same name for one specific animal.
Well sort of: There's like swifty-swife times "gepard", about a dozen times "гепард", and some variations of the two ("ghepardo", "guepardo" etc.).
All of course from the usual source: γατόπαρδος

Well, i didn't learn that. I knew that. But today i had the amazing insight: "Hey, where the hell did the English get their funny word from?"
It appaers, via Hindi from Sanscrit "citra" (spotted). Duh, can't do Greek -> conquer India.
Pretty mundane insight. But still fun.

Anyway, as per usual the Dutch (jachtluipaard) and the Icelanders (blettatígur) get extra points for cuteness.

Blettatigur!

Because it's like a tiger. But with spots. And cute. And the Icelanders don't give a damn.

*checking* No, they don't call giraffes "spotted horsies".
How disappointing...

 

[madviking]

Link to video.

16 bar intro
32 bar verse
16 bar chorus
16 bar verse
16 bar chorus
16 bar outro


Link to video.

8 bar intro
16 bar verse
8 bar chorus
8 bar verse
8 bar chorus
32 bar outro

i think the reason the end of karma police sounds kinda weird is that it's a quadruple length outro.

ALL SONGS ARE THE SAME

 

[Linkman226]

TIL:

Virtually every continental European language uses the same name for one specific animal.
Well sort of: There's like swifty-swife times "gepard", about a dozen times "гепард", and some variations of the two ("ghepardo", "guepardo" etc.).
All of course from the usual source: γατόπαρδος

Well, i didn't learn that. I knew that. But today i had the amazing insight: "Hey, where the hell did the English get their funny word from?"
It appaers, via Hindi from Sanscrit "citra" (spotted). Duh, can't do Greek -> conquer India.
Pretty mundane insight. But still fun.

Anyway, as per usual the Dutch (jachtluipaard) and the Icelanders (blettatígur) get extra points for cuteness.

Blettatigur!

Because it's like a tiger. But with spots. And cute. And the Icelanders don't give a damn.

*checking* No, they don't call giraffes "spotted horsies".
How disappointing...

So I decided to look this one up in the Online Etymology Dictionary and TIL that the words "cheetah" and "poet" are distantly cognate:

The entry for cheetah:

1704, from Hindi chita "leopard," from Sanskrit chitraka "hunting leopard, tiger," literally "speckled," from chitra-s "distinctively marked, variegated, many-colored, bright, clear" (from PIE *kit-ro-, from root *(s)kai- (1) "bright, shining;" see shine (v.)) + kayah "body," from PIE *kwei- "to build, make" (see poet).

The entry for poet:

early 14c., "a poet, a singer" (c.1200 as a surname), from Old French poete (12c., Modern French poète) and directly from Latin poeta "a poet," from Greek poetes "maker, author, poet," variant of poietes, from poein, poiein "to make, create, compose," from PIE *kwoiwo- "making," from root *kwei- "to pile up, build, make" (cognates: Sanskrit cinoti "heaping up, piling up," Old Church Slavonic činu "act, deed, order").

Replaced Old English scop (which survives in scoff). Used in 14c., as in classical languages, for all sorts of writers or composers of works of literature. Poète maudit, "a poet insufficiently appreciated by his contemporaries," literally "cursed poet," attested by 1930, from French (1884, Verlaine). For poet laureate see laureate.

 

[Agent327]

So, apparently, jachtluipaard comes from 'gatopardos'? Blettatigur obviously from (a) tiger. Seems like a different root.

I think one of the top ten US beer imports comes from England. If a beer is still good at room temperature it's probably a really good beer.

The US also import Heineken. Definitely not a top quality beer.

 

[Kyriakos]

FWIW, in Greek the Giraffe is termed Καμηλοπάρδαλη, which literally means Camel-pard.

But Hippopotamos (Horse of the river) is hugely better

 

[cybrxkhan]

TIL I learned that there's a Japanese manga about Continental philosophers reincarnated as underage (?) schoolgirls. Oh Japan. Here's a link about it or something. I guess it's not as ridiculous as the dictators of the world being cute girls, but it's hilarious in its own way... Also dat Spinoza looks kinda scandalous.

 

[Kyriakos]

So it only has Nietzsche and then semi-random germans/germanics (and Spinoza)?

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I mean... Heidegger? I have to time for this being.

 

[cybrxkhan]

So it only has Nietzsche and then semi-random germans/germanics (and Spinoza)?

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I mean... Heidegger? I have to time for this being.

Looking it into a bit I read comments elsewhere that said the philosophers included are mainly the european philosophers more familiar ( influential?) in Japan, thus explaining some of the odder choices.

I, for one, would like to see Heraclitus or Diogenes as schoolgirls, though sadly it seems this only deals with more modern figures.

 

[metatron]

So, apparently, jachtluipaard comes from 'gatopardos'?

Well, it has the "parder" in it anyway.

But Hippopotamos (Horse of the river) is hugely better

Flußpferd.
It's in a river. And it looks like a fat horse.

TIL I learned that there's a Japanese manga about Continental philosophers reincarnated as underage (?) schoolgirls. Oh Japan. Here's a link about it or something. I guess it's not as ridiculous as the dictators of the world being cute girls, but it's hilarious in its own way... Also dat Spinoza looks kinda scandalous.

Those are hilarious. And terrible. And hilarious.
Nietzsche is very angry. Berkeley and Hume will totally pose as "lesbians" in porn when they run out of money in college. It's like a foregone conclusion...

 

[cybrxkhan]

TIL that every unborn baby grows a moustache in the womb, which then spreads to cover the entire body. The baby then eats this fine hair, called lanugo, and excretes it after birth with their first bowel movement, which is a substance called meconium.

That's... interesting.

 

[Linkman226]

Um... citation?

I was aware of what meconium was (the first bowel movement) but had no clue about the rest.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Um... citation?

I was aware of what meconium was (the first bowel movement) but had no clue about the rest.

Well, here's a mention of it in a book:

http://books.google.com/books?id=zy...Yh4KABw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q&f=false


Note that from various places I've seen this mentioned, ones that go into a bit more detail than "lol baby eats mustache", it does mention it eats the hair because the hair falls off (?) and gets mixed with some liquid inside the womb or something that the baby ingests

 

[Agent327]

Well, it has the "parder" in it anyway.

I'm not sure what 'parder' is, but I wondered about the 'paard' (horse, lit.) in jachtluipaard, which literally translates to huntlazyhorse, where only the hunt part makes any sense. Without this information I would never have connected it to gatopardos. Lovely.

Flußpferd.
It's in a river. And it looks like a fat horse.

I thought it was Nilpferd in German (nijlpaard in Dutch). An extremely fat horse with very large fangs.

 

[cybrxkhan]

TIL after WWII the US offered to buy Greenland from Denmark, but Denmark wasn't interested. Also after WWII there was a political party in Italy whose objective was to eventually make Italy a state of America.

Oh god, Italy, 51st American state. That's just...

 

[Civ'ed]

TIL after WWII the US offered to buy Greenland from Denmark, but Denmark wasn't interested. Also after WWII there was a political party in Italy whose objective was to eventually make Italy a state of America.

Oh god, Italy, 51st American state. That's just...

There's also a semi-serious political movement to make Sardinia a Swiss Canton.

 

[Tee Kay]

TIL after WWII the US offered to buy Greenland from Denmark, but Denmark wasn't interested. Also after WWII there was a political party in Italy whose objective was to eventually make Italy a state of America.

Oh god, Italy, 51st American state. That's just...

Actually, Italy would have been the 49th State. :3

 

[Borachio]

I learned that Jim Petrie died this year.

Famous for drawing Minnie the Minx. The first juvenile lesbian icon. (Not really. More just a tom boy.)

 

[cybrxkhan]

Actually, Italy would have been the 49th State. :3

I was assuming it'd be admitted into the US as a state after Alaska and Hawaai in this asb timeline.

Well, then again, the entire premise is so asb it doesn't matter, I guess.

Italy, 49th state of these United States of America!

 

[gay_Aleks]

Nah, they'd be only the 50th. By then, Ireland would be purchased by USA, thus breaking the eternal Monroe Doctrine (of course excluding these times you "saved" the world from the Prussians and the Nazis).

 

[Goodfella]

Also after WWII there was a political party in Italy whose objective was to eventually make Italy a state of America.

Oh god, Italy, 51st American state. That's just...

Apparently they wanted to every democratic country to become part of the US.