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imagine trying to pitch written language. "This picture of s cow makes a sound" literally no it doesn't asshole. We are going to hurt you.
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Finally broke down and looked up "67" on wikipedia today, and i love that wikipedia had to include the fact that people are using the meme as evidence of "brain rot" in younger generations because of how low-effort it is. And like, i have no horse in this race, i'm clearly out of touch enough with what the kids are saying that i have to go look up memes on the internet to understand them, but brain rot? I'm pretty sure kids have been saying random numbers as memes since... like, the beginning of language. the beginning of numbers. I'm guessing that some time around 15,000 years ago in hunter-gatherer tribes all around the world a scene played out where one kid shouted "hey look, four rocks!" after seeing a few rocks on the ground, and every other kid in the tribe shouted "four rocks! four rocks!" and the adults just stood around like "what the fuck are the kids on about now?" and then had to live with the kids saying "four rocks!" every time they saw four of literally any object together. Like, this does not seem like a new phenomenon.
You make a compelling point. Especially because "four rocks" IS hella fun to say. Thanks for the new way to confuse my friends when hiking!
four rocks!!!
four rocks!!!
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Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:
- Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)
- Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)
- Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.
But in Japanese it scans as:
- Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)
- Psycho (short for psychic)
- Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.
"Psycho" to mean "someone with psychokinesis" has been an anime thing since the 70s so I knew that one but the meaning of "Mob" really never crossed my mind. I thought it was just his name for no reason at all.
Japanese read: ESP NPC
English read: MAXIMUM MURDER
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today i learned that the finnish word for ‘hazardous waste’ is ongelmajäte, which can also translate as ‘problematic garbage’ and my roommate and i immediately agreed this is a word that belongs on tumblr.
Your fave is ongelmajäte
in german it’s Sondermüll which means special trash and that too belongs on tumblr
One man’s ongelmajäte is another man’s sondermüll.
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You can certainly see how the common use of the word "decimate" changed over time, going from "killing one-tenth" to "killing a significant portion" to "basically killing everyone," and the word definitely has a certain ring to it, but also, "annihilate" is right there! You got the latin gravitas, plus it literally means "to make (into) nothing"