>Horizontally >Horizon I JUST figured this out. I'm

woah

>verticloudy
>cloudy

What.
The.
Frick.

File: Galactic-Ascension.jpg (108KB, 727x718px) Image search: [Google]

108KB, 727x718px

>>9905795
So this is what it feels like to have ascended.

>>9905795

Learning French made me realize that the word "news" is plural of "new."

>vertical
>vertigo
wew

>>9906432
This one is actually cool.

>alphabet
>alpha
>beta
OMG

>>9906432
>learn in French that "^" indicated there was an S before the circumflexed letter
>hôtel
>hostel

>>9906513
>indicated there was an S before the circumflexed letter
>an S before the circumflexed letter
>an S before
>before
What did he mean by this?

>Breakfast
>Because you're breaking the fast of not eating all night

woooaah

>>9905795
The M on Mario's hat stands for Martyr, hence the red overalls.

File: 1489346542398.gif (971KB, 350x300px) Image search: [Google]

971KB, 350x300px

>>9905795
>"Terrific" used to be a bad thing since it comes from "Terror" like "Horrific" comes from "Horror"

File: granny.jpg (202KB, 752x644px) Image search: [Google]

202KB, 752x644px

>nigger
>niger, nigra, nigrum
>latin for black
no waaay

>>9906506
nice.

>two
no fucking way

>>9905795
Fuck

>>9906602
Funnier is that at least in Portugal negro is more polite than preto

>>9906658
I wonder if in a few years "black" will be a profanity

>>9906567
Holy shit, is this legit?

>>9906813
yes

File: image.jpg (46KB, 598x714px) Image search: [Google]

46KB, 598x714px

>the Burger King sign is supposed to be a burger

All this time...

File: giphy-facebook_s.gif (76KB, 480x270px) Image search: [Google]

76KB, 480x270px

>>9905795
>reading up on my Greek myth
>AHA-moments every day
>most recent one:
>Ixion, Sysiphus and Tantalus
>Tantalus was punished by forever having water up to his neck, unless he tried to drink, then it would dry up.
>and having a tree full of the best fruits just out of reach above him,
>starving and thirsting for eternity
>"tantalising"

>>9906669
Calling someone black was offensive for a while in the west, though. It's only swung back to the correct term because of the left's emphasis on race

>>9906813
Yeah. Interestingly, "breakfast" was also used as a verb in the past (it still _can_ be used as a verb, but almost no one does it). So you might say, "I breakfasted this morning".

>>9906658
Same in Brazil. Sometimes I've seen blacks call themselves "pretos". I imagine it's like the nigger situation in the anglo world.

File: IMG_6506.jpg (175KB, 1280x853px) Image search: [Google]

175KB, 1280x853px

>convertible
>able to be converted/changed

I remember when I was like 14 and "figured it out." Felt like a fucking idiot.

>>9906898
Holy shit.

>>9905795
So this is what it feels like to be an English speaker...

really an inferior race, now we have the proof

>/lit/
>it's short for literature

HOLY FUCKING SHIT
this whole time i thought it meant lit like that rap song

two ones that my wife got recently:

>why did the chicken cross the road? to get to the other side!
the other side being heaven, the afterlife, etc.

>it's always in the last place you look
she interpreted it as "it's always in the last place you'd *think* to look" rather than it is literally in the last place you look because you found it there

>>9906898
Ariadne gives Theseus a ball of yarn to help him find his way out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth. Theseus unravelled the yarn behind him as he went into the maze, so that he could work his way back out in reverse.

The ancient greek word for a ball of yarn was "clew"...

>>9907526
i never understood this myth: does not a labyrinth differ from a maze, in that there is only one solution to a labyrinth? why, then, would theseus need the yarn? i thought the danger of the labyrinth was the minotaur, not navigation.

>>9907554
I see you've never read Borges...

>>9907554
If you get lost in a labyrinth it doesn't matter if it's got 1 exit, you're still dead.

>>9907526
I'm gonna use that every time I accidentally write clew instead of clue. I do that quite often.

Fuck dude. I knew European culture was significantly influenced by the Greeks, but wew.
Even huge portions of Abrahamic religions. I should have known this, but holy fuck. I always figured Judaism was relatively divorced. Seems I was very wrong.
>>9907554
I think it's meant as a maze.

>>9906920
It is still used that way in German. Fruhstucken.

>>9905795
>Virtue: virtuous.

Oh, cool story anon. Tell us another.

>Vice: vicious.

>>9905795
>>9906432
>>9906567
>>9906588
i hope you boyim are memeing for the heck of it

>>9905795
I believe I first understood the difference between horizontal and vertical around the turn of the millennium, when Vertical Limit was released on DVD and so, for a few years after in order to ensure that I could tell the difference I recalled the promotions for this film, reminding myself that a movie about mountain climbing would be silly if it were instead titled Horizonal Limit.

>>9907511
>the other side being heaven, the afterlife, etc.

...no. It's literally just an anti-joke.

>>9907511
>>it's always in the last place you look
oh dang, that's pretty clever

That specific wording of it is rare, though; your wife is right to think of it as "last place you'd think to look". But your version works great as an antijoke/dadjoke.

>>9907511
>why did the chicken cross the road? to get to the other side!

You know I'm pretty sure this is just an anti-joke - it subverts the expectation for a punchline that causes an information explosion.

If it was about the afterlife why would a chicken be the subject of the joke? Why not a snail?

>>9907554
The word "labyrinth" became synonymous with "only one long solution to center" because of the ancient coins that depicted The Labyrinth -- which, of course, could not accurately draw the complexity of the Labyrinth.

So, the Labyrinth was really a maze, in that navigating it required making the right choices.

Mercy came from mercantile/merchant. As in
>I'll give you half a sack of potatoes and a sheep if you spare my life

>>9907729
You people continue to think of THE Labyrinth. The most famous one. That's okay, but a labyrinth can also be defined as any confusingly intricate state of things or events. It doesn't have to be a maze, specifically.

Again, please, read Borges.

>>9906578
>Super Martyr Bros.

makes sense.

>>9907796

Pretty sure that all came from merkin niggas.

>>9907715
Mollusks can't go to heaven

>>9907833
The point is that some people make the distinction between "labyrinths" and "mazes" in such a way. That distinction need not always apply, and each word can of course be used metaphorically in the intended or unintended way.

>>9907920
No I agree with you. I thought I was replying to someone else. There is a difference between a labyrinth and a maze.

>>9907864
Pubic wig?

>>9907715
Featherless bipeds

You can't eat your cake and have it too" makes more sense than the usual way. Ted Kaczynski used to say it that way and it was part of the reason he was found out because his brother recognized

"You can't eat your cake and have it too" makes more sense than the usual order it's said. Ted Kaczynski used to say it that way and his brother recognized it which lead to him being caught.

>>9908089
>>9908092
Wtf why did it doublepost. Just ignore.

>>9905795
>Pepe le Pew
>Hes a French cartoon skunk
>Because French people stink (and rape)
I only realized this one morning when I was 27

>>9908089
that's a really interesting story

>>9906567
Realized this myself few weeks ago and checked it - completely legit.

>Newfoundland
>new found land

File: 1502224192848.jpg (31KB, 699x485px) Image search: [Google]

31KB, 699x485px

>Holy Roman Empire
>neither Roman, holy or an empire

"Panic" stems from Pan, Greek deity who scared the shit out of people travelling through forests at night

>>9906567
Big if true

>shipping
the shit is transported on ships...

>>9908089
>>9908092
Yeah, I've thought of it this way for a few years now (maybe after having read about Kaczynski or just figuring it out; can't remember which).

"You can't have your cake and eat it, too" makes so little sense as an idiom that the meaning got super distorted. It now just means "you can't enjoy two separate things at the same time if they collide with one another." Sure, it keeps the metaphor, but the image of "you can't eat your cake and have it, too" gives a more poignant meaning of "There are certain things in life that you can't enjoy without losing some of that thing in the process."

>>9908546
this applies to like, New Zealand and Hawaii...

>>9905795

I'm older than you. I still get these once in a while

>president
>PRESIDES over something - a company, a country, etc. Often something big and important. However he doesn't necessarily OWN the thing, he's simply the man in charge of final decisions about what the thing will do.

>>9905795
>/lit/
>it's just short for "literature"
Holy fuck... So that's why y'all sometimes referring to books in your shitposting.

>>9905795
Etymology is cool. Sadly, I did not appreciate it when I had the chance to study greek and latin in Uni.


> The Greek word for leisure (scholé) is the origin of Latin scola, English school.

The l's in 'parallel' are parallel.

>>9907833
Fuck outta here nigga, that's a called a fucking gauntlet.

>>9908089
Yeah. I didn't understand the saying for - well, my entire life until someone explained it to me. Then I got really pissed it wasn't the other way around because it makes so much more sense that way. I'm not in an english speaking country, so I can't used it any, but goddammit. Who fucking chose how to say that fucking phase? Who decided?

>>9908703
Top lel as in paral'lel'

>>9908786
Maybe it sounds better the other way around even if it makes less sense? I'm not sure, but phonology should not be underestimated.

>disease
>dis ease
as in no longer at ease

>>9907586
You can create a timline of the religion of that general area and see how it just morphs with the peoples.

>>9908089
>>9908092
The Italian "You can't have a full bottle and a drunken wife" is the patrician version

>>9908085
why did plato cross the street?

to kick diogenes in the balls

>>9908954
Oha, nice

Blood is thicker than water is a misnomer.
The original quote is Blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb. Which means that the people you chose are more important than the people you had no choice to associate with.

In fact, almost all famous phrases mean the exact opposite of what people usually use them for.

Im norweegian and i've studied latin, old norse and PIE, so i can basically deconstruct my entire language by now, its kinda cool.

>>9909495
But can you understand the Danish now?

>pancakes
>cakes which you make in a pan
Made me think

>>9909022
that's unfounded interpretation of its history though.

>>9909582
>that's unfounded interpretation
it's not rocket science, what's the other possible interpretations?

>alt-right
>alternative right-wing
woah

>>9908570
the shirt you're wearing was made in china

>>9908703
please return to r/showerthoughts

pre- is the prefix of prefix

>>9906513
so hsotel

>>9908570
holy shit- this may be the dumbest thing I've heard all month.

>the english word "first" denotes an element ehich precedes every other element in a set
>the german word "Fürst" can mean prince
>in monarchies, a prince is the person which precedes every other person in inheritance to the throne

>>9907698
when I was looking for things as a kid, my mom would always tell me "it's always in the last place you look". I'd interpret that as it's in a hard to find location and I'd start looking in the most obscure places.

>>9910277
Mmmm. German and english have a lot of words in common, but that's not one of them.
Really, Erst which means first in german is phonetically similar to first, and if we're stretching, that makes more sense.

>>9906567
thanks grr martin

>protestants
they protested some shit

>>9910718
by being even more traditionalist than what they were protesting.

>>9910735
>what is 4chan.org/pol/

>>9910793
would you seriously fuck off.

slave came from slavs

>>9910948
servant came from serfs

>>9908460
it's new finland. it's why its still pronounced that way.

>run amok

turns out amok is just malay for "robot had enough and started machete hacking/grenading/shooting everyone to death and then said he didn't know what happened when he got caught"

malay also invented "cooties" "ketchup" and "orangutan". i suggest a plot.

>>9910967
people don't pronounce it newfinland, people pronounce it newfunlund

>>9906567
Wew

All of you people are fucking retarded.

>>9905795
>the exception proves the rule
never understood this hocus pocus (while occasionally using it incorrectly) until discovering that 'proves' means 'tests' or 'challenges' in this instance.
Such extravagance humbled!

>>9911497
No. I think it means: since it is an exception, it proves that the other case is the rule.

But I might be wrong... please don't tell me I am wrong :O

>>9911515
But anon.. this is almost exactly what I THOUGHT. The proof is in the pudding, I suppose....

>>9906920
>>9907599
same in French,
déjeuner is both a verb and a noun and means to break (dé- = privative prefix) the fast (jeûne + r form the verbal form)

>>9910277
>prince comes from the latin word Princeps, which means first

>Czar (Tseezar) and Kaiser (Kaezar, like the latin pronunciation) both are forms of the word Caesar

>>9910958
No, it came from 'servare'- to save.

>>9907599
Frühstücken.
With an "ü".

>>9911538
With a worried mind I continued thinking about it and came to the conclusion that we were right after all. In German the phrase is "Die Ausnahme bestätigt die Regel" which is best translated to "the exception confirms the rule".

Looks like I'll be able to sleep tonight after all.

>>9911599
What I mean to say is that "bestätigt" is definitely "confirms" rather than "tests" in every case.

File: pan.jpg (81KB, 550x434px) Image search: [Google]

81KB, 550x434px

>>9907526
When the god Pan awakens from his naps, he gives a shout, scaring the surrounding wildlife to fly and stampede away.

>Greek: panikon = sudden fear
>panic

Also in the original Greek myth, Satyrs and Centaurs would rape man and woman to death on sight.
In case you were wondering.

What a wonderful heritage we all have.

>>9906432
I grew up speaking french and this post has only just made me aware of this

>>9907526
I'm calling bullshit on that. The etymology for clue doesn't include any ancient greek and also how would you write and pronounce it in greek? Is that w an omega or digamma?

File: 1500839937322.png (153KB, 248x459px) Image search: [Google]

153KB, 248x459px

>>9906567

File: reece.jpg (27KB, 504x415px) Image search: [Google]

27KB, 504x415px

>something stems from something
>a tree has a STEM that LEADS to its branches

>>9905795
>Plato
>platonic love

>>9911975
fuck off STEM fag

>>9907511
>two ones

>>9912024
It's technically correct.
The best kind of correct.

>>9912068
Oh hell yeah

>>9906669
>>9906905
The irony is that whatever euphemism people use it will likely end up being offensive anyway.

>>9911975
Kek'd

>>9906432
No dude it's an acronym of North East West South

>>9908546
Wtf delete this

>this thread

Americans are really stupid huh

>>9913838
>stupefy
>literally means to make stupid
or vice versa, to be stupid means to always be stupefied at things, unable to react properly

>dumbfound
>to be "found dumb" or made dumb

>>9913838
>Americans
meaning citizens of the country United States of America, often referred to as "America" in short

>>9913838
>stupid
>stupor

HHOOOOOOOOOLY SHIIT MAN