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The word robot comes from Czech robotnik (forced worker) and is cognate with German arbeit (work) and thus Japanese arubaito/baito (part time work) and it just feels appropriate for Japan to have a word for work with a robot connection.

@Lethescholar @nrken19 It seems like it was very similar to influential families giving a son to the church.

The fact that, within the same elite Gaulish family, one sibling could be a knight and another a druid shows that the social order of late La Tène Gaul had little to do with an Indic-like caste system. Druids were an initiatory order, not the Gaulish equivalent of Brahmins.

@DownAndOut__ @uncle_deluge Damn Earthlings and their imperial units and bad education system wink wink nudge nudge

@uncle_deluge "Ugh Earthlings are so stupid 😏"

This writing pisses me off

@Laiseran @DiamondEyesFox Is that a dead lion being swarmed with flies?

@DiamondEyesFox in the UK we have it on our syrup tins

the japanese have bible verses on their jelly??

@uncle_deluge They're very good. I can't imagine anyone disliking them.

When I was kid my local grocery store had a little bakery in the back and every day they'd leave a basket full of oatmeal raisin cookies for kids to take one. One straight out of the oven, a treat you didn't even expect to have, they were heavenly. Just a good wholesome snack

Was there some unwritten rule about not killing a knight's horse? It seems like a big weak spot.

Learning Japanese makes you care about things you would have been embarrassed to care about before. Like it actually makes you think people who watch dubs are subhuman retards who should be euthanized.

@IkeNotabot @RoyalBlueRapto1 Gonna be hard to find a black fox.

@RoyalBlueRapto1 Amazon has just inked a 5 season deal to produce: Feonor the Fox: A Middle Earth Tail! Join Feonor the Fox and his merry friends as he helps Frodo on his quest... and you just might see a few familiar faces along the way. Spring 2035.

Chekov: Don't show your audience a random thing unless it's relevant to the story later Tolkien: 🦊

日本語であり英語でもある単語まとめ カゴ (Cargo) 邪魔 (Jammer) 買 (Buy) 遮断 (shutdown) かばう (cover) 対 ﾂｲ (twin) 負う (owe) 視 (see) ダル… (dull) 小テスト (short test) 骨 (bone) 起こる (occur) ひでんマシン (hidden machine) なし (nothing) 口論 (quarrel) ぐっすり (good sleep) そう (so)

@kysdalit @no_one_quits

@no_one_quits Japanese artists love alluding to based takes on WW2. People will scoff but One Piece for example is unironically about how the Axis were the good guys and Hitler's spirit will rise again.

Today I learned the expression "ivory tower" comes from the Song of Solomon (which hopefully hits different in Hebrew) and meant "neck." It went on to mean the Virgin Mary, before arriving at today's meaning.

@TiffanyxFong The Union Jack is not the flag of the US.

People who think that temperature scales should be based on what water does are the lowest forms of life. I'm a person, not a water.

@Ore_smelting I should finish 瑠璃の宝石.

国産砂金82.02g‼️ とある川に通い、コツコツ砂金を集め5年で82.02gになりました😁砂金はズッシリと重く、金の比重の大きさを実感する事が出来ます！ 今年中に砂金100g目指します‼️

@illjoy_ I am not speechless

I’m honestly kind of speechless at how stupid this is

@FortressLugh Urnfield ancestors smile

The French are primarily just Romanized Gauls.

@uncle_deluge Kind of a noir rhythm to your prose today, Ante.

Discussed watch repair with a Jewish jeweller. He won't work on Timexes. They're "trouble." I know what he meant to say was they're beneath him. I'm alright with that. His eyes lit up when what we thought was silver was white gold. He knows a guy. He can get me a good deal.

They don't want you to know this, but half the world is Mexico.

There's something about manglish that everyone using it sounds like a little chola.

@JamesCanaryII @SandyofCthulhu I'm not crying, buddy. You wanna stand around a street and stare into cars and buildings like a retard, go for it.

@Swag_solipsist @SandyofCthulhu Boo hoo fаggоt

When I was in Kyoto with my friend, I kept seeing "geishas" walking around. My friend (who lives in Japan) assured me they were not real geishas, but Chinese tourists dressed up for fun. I asked him, "How can you tell?" He said, "Trust me. When you see a real geisha, you'll KNOW." Anyway went down a notorious geisha street - it was full of restaurants that featured geishas. You had to be a member to get in. And to be a member an existing member had to recommend you. So no way could I get into one of them. They had walls around the grounds so you couldn't even see in. Anyway, while we were gawking at the cool geisha establishments, a long black limousine pulled up and a geisha got out of the back seat and quickly hobbled into one of the geisha places. I was maybe 10 feet away from her. And friend let me tell you I didn't need a guidebook to tell that she was the real deal. Completely white face-paint. Amazing hairdo with sticks thrust through. Layers upon layers of gorgeous colorful kimono cloth. THAT was the geisha. I kept staring at the place after she was long gone. So that is my one story of how I saw a geisha. Sorry I was too stunned to pull out my camera and take a picture. Anyway my wife was there so ...