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“Saying ‘chai tea’ is silly! You wouldn’t say 'tea tea’!”
Except that yes we absolutely would and do, frequently, use words that mean the same thing to specify a specific variety of that thing. It doesn’t even have to be two different words. A “fancy party’ and a ”fancy fancy party" are two different things. This is a common thing in English and, so far as I’m aware, many other languages as well.
(I believe there is a specific term for this ligual quirk but I do not remember it and can’t find the big post I saw one time explaining it.)
“Tautonym” was the word I was looking for. It’s a word or phrase comprised of the same word used twice, either in the same or different languages, to specify a certain type of that thing. It’s usually used to refer to taxonomy in which the latin name of a species and genus is the same (ie: gorilla gorilla or vulpes vulpes) but is also when a specific preparation or type of a certain thing is specified by using the same word in the language of the place where it is prepared in that manner or where the thing is located or when a word consists of two or more identical syllables (ie: bonbon)
“Chai tea” is “tea prepared in the style of the place where the word for "tea” is “chai. "Sahara Desert” is the desert in the area in which the word for desert is “Sahara”, etc etc.
It’s a very fun thing about language!(via littlehaize)
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“scientists can be relied upon to admit when they are wrong and update their views according to new information” is actually an EXCELLENT reason to trust scientists because it means you know they are giving you the best facts available and aren’t just defending the same view to look good….unlike the kinda of hacks and conspiracy theorists who are anti science….
(via amarriageoftrueminds)
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funny phrases to use when something goes wrong instead of jokingly saying “i’m going to kms”:
- i’m going to kill god
- i’m going to delete my blog
- i’m going to explode
- i’m going to blow up this entire website
- i’m going to become the joker
- this is going to be my villain origin story
feel free to add on
THIS ONE WINS
oh you know
What is homestuck? Is it like goncharov?
(via amarriageoftrueminds)
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I finally switched to firefox and I’ve seen a lot of posts about the effortless importing of preferences from chrome and how it’s important to support non-chromium platforms, but nobody is talking about the loss of productivity that happens when beautiful women come to your house to kiss you on the mouth because they heard you use firefox now. nobody’s talking about this
(via girlboy-boygirl)
