Was just thinking about how the etymology evolution of the word is funny because now we have shit like “helipad” because it sounds right, and it does, but “heli” isn’t a root word further back than “helicopter”. So it’s an intuitive, sound-based abbreviation of a word whose meaning is too rarely thought about to be intuitively abbreviated in a way that preserves its root words. Excellent. That said, what a cool underlying name for helicopters.
Modern language is really big on abbreviations, acronyms and portmanteaus but it also sometimes makes me wonder if some of that’s not as new a phenomenon as it seems. Like there’s that anecdote that goodbye is of “god be with ye”; ostensibly one of the “yaint"s of the time period, but it got kinda popular
there’s no shame in admitting that none of us have any concept of how big a whale is
Once in the 3rd grade, we were learning about marine life. The material we were reading said that baby blue whales are around 50 feet long when they’re born. Our teacher stopped, realizing that a bunch of 8-9 year olds had no actual concept of how big that was, so she took us all out to the schoolyard with a tape measure. Now this tape measure only went up to 10 feet, so she had to mark off 5 total 10 foot increments. And when she was done, standing 50 feet away from us, she yelled back “And this is only a baby! Can you imagine how big adult blue whales are?” And let me tell you, the stunned, profound silence that came from this group of 12 normally chatty children still haunts me to this day. Every time I think about how big whales are, I remember that spring day in the 3rd grade.
yeah hey @ Persephone can you pls stop messing with your boy toy and come back I need spring
i love the tags on this because there’s only two responses:
1. “leave her alone, she waited all year to get dicked down”
2. “draG HER SIS. WE NEED TO ESCAPE THIS SNOWY HELL”
Okay but it’s not Persephone doing this. Let’s all start putting the blame where it belongs. Demeter, your daughter is a grown woman. Get your shit together.
I reblogged this for the last part. She’s a grown ass woman, do your thing.
i reblogged this for the last part she’s a grown ass woman do your thing
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Thesis: the reason we joke about what J R R Tolkien’s initials stand for but not C S Lewis’ is because nothing could possibly be funnier than C S Lewis’ actual name.
Holy fuck I just looked that up and instantly burst into laughter. I now no longer need this winter to block the winter cold.
We naturally put millionaires and billionaires in the same general class of person, but the only reason to do that is because the words are similar. Since these aren’t numbers we can actually visualize, it’s important to understand what a billion of something is. To travel a million inches, you’d have to travel from the Southern-most tip of Manhattan and go to the Bronx. To travel a billion inches, you’d have to fly from New York to Shanghai twice. A million seconds is a little over 11 days. A billion seconds is nearly 32 years. A million ounces is about the weight of a train car. A billion ounces is 4.5 Eiffel Towers. Use these to conceptualize what the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is, and the absurd amount of wealth we’re talking about.
Millionaire: I can buy a fancy sports car, and a huge house!
a lake in montana whose water is so clear it appears shallow, when really its over 100 feet deep!
this is actually kinda terrifying because what if someone doesn’t know how deep it is, so they go diving and try to swim to the bottom, but they always seem just out of reach, so they just keep swimming… and when they realize something’s wrong it’s too late
Imagine seeing a body at the bottom….
tumblr has the ability to turn everything beautiful into something terrifying
What if you see a skeleton at the bottom of what appears to be a shallow part of the lake. As you dive down to check them out you notice the water is deeper than you originally thought. Much deeper. You come to realize that there is no way these remains could be human, you’re not even half-way down and already the skull already looks bigger than your car
This started so tranquil and then it turned into Friday the 13th
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