#Etymology

Deceuninck-QuickStep

deceuninck_qst

One of the biggest towns in the province of Gipuzkoa, Irun - from where #LaVuelta20 began today - isn't far from the coastal village of Getaria, the birthplace of

Vade Retro Satana

pope_head

Everyone in conspiratorial circles has now heard of Larry Fink and BlackRock. The world's largest asset manager, with 10 trillion in assets under management. They fund all kind of diabolical

Chris Noessel 🏳️‍🌈🤖

chrisnoessel

In search of a fiction-writing / naming pattern: You have a novum technology in your story. Your narrator and characters need to call it something. What do you name it?

nuventeen

nuesvtgemini

☆ 彡 Pledis Groups Theories Thread ミ☆Parallel concept found in Pledis Universe : After School, Nu'est, Seventeen, Pristin#AFTERSCHOOL #NUEST #SEVENTEEN #PRISTIN Part 1 - Color of the SkyPledis name

Medieval Indonesia

siwaratrikalpa

Apparently it's #NationalTeaDay in the UK. Today I'm drinking one of the best black teas - Qímén ('Keemun', 祁門紅茶) from Anhui province in China.Anyway, question: Did people in island Southeast

Shreyas Doshi

shreyas

For any difficult or high-impact product decision, we typically face a plethora of questions about what tradeoffs to make, what risks to take, how things might play out in practice,

Thomas Wier

thomas_wier

Weekly Georgian Etymology: გამარჯობა gamarǯoba 'hello', from გამარჯვება gamarǯveba victory, triumph, from Proto-Kartvelian *ma-rǯv- overcome, defeat, from PK *rǯv- right, nimble. It illustra

morea

moreamorra

why i, a lesbian, believe bi women can reclaim dyke/the d slur:a thread first of all I wanna talk about the etymology of the slur. the origins of the word

Indian History

IndianHistory0

Share and RT this thread.. Many people mistakenly think "dasas" "dasyus" of the Rigveda were dark-skinned aboriginal "dravidians" –– this is definitely not true. Most philological research suggests they wer

Jake Hamby

jhamby

Bingo! Google managed to “cross the creepy line” by calling their HR department “PeopleOps”.https://twitter.com/lookoutitsbbear/status/1319315926685286402 I really like Foxconn’s evil managers’ analogy of tech workers to lazy do

Peter Sokolowski

PeterSokolowski

1) The fact that people care deeply about language is an unambiguously good thing! It's easy to explain why 'irregardless' is in the dictionary, and to show that the clear

Gareth Harney

OptimoPrincipi

1) A stranger than fiction Roman ring mystery thread: this enigmatic Roman gold ring was found in a ploughed field near Silchester in 1785. The square bezel has a portrait

Efka #blacklivesmatter

NoPunIncluded

Thanks to these screengrabs, many DnD players are realizing today that the man who created all of it was a misogynist.So how do we keep enjoying DnD with all of

Chaitanya Medi

healthysceptic

1. Having seen debates about the astika/nastika classification and the possibility of a “Hindu Atheist”, I thought I would write my understanding of these concepts to shed some light on

eyeDOT🇳🇬

Thisisgodswill

.On developing a good Vocabulary (a not-so-long thread)The basics:.Vocabulary= all the words in a language i.e. a language's repertoire of words. Also, it means all the words in a language

Omer Sayadi

MENAsymbolism

Doing a special thread, which I will include on my website as well. Since one could argue that a nation's name is actually a symbolical representation historically constructed as a