Ask your ant, or your ankle
Of course I can distinguish the words, I just don’t know their meaning, and it bugs me.
Etymology is not just the meaning of words but their history. How they were coined and what they meant at different times in the past.
I always wondered how hardcore etymologists (?) feel watching certain history shows or sci-fi knowing that there’s no way they could be using certain words or phrases.
Depends. A show taking place in the 80s where the kids are saying “poggers” and “rizz” would be pretty jarring.
you have to have some yarbels to get me gulliver to watch 80s baffoonery.
I assume it’s roughly the same feeling programmers get when some TV character “creates a GUI interface using visual basic to track the killer’s IP address.”
I’m an IT dude (part software dev, part network admin) and I like etymology. Can confirm.
smashes two keyboards at once, causing green-on-black HTML code to appear in the reflection in sunglasses
I’m in.
I actually did make that mistake IRL exactly once.
I propose a slight edit:
The fact that some people can’t distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can’t even begin to put into words.
Or with accent… I can’t even buggin to put into words
This was brilliant! Loved it.
I didnt want to upvote you. I really didnt. But my parents raised me better. I am upvoting because its good optics in the neighorhood.
It’s a classic epidemiological failure to appropriately organize one’s knowledge and information.
There will come the day where humankind abandons traditional language and embraces comunicating only via relevant XKCD comics
You know Randall is going to make that meta comic
The students, this years records destroyed
Shaka, when the walls fell.
How is there so many relevant xkcds
