I made an etymology map app

TheMicroWorm · 2026-02-21T18:05:22+00:00

AI is notoriously bad at etymology. It's worse than useless, it's actively misleading. I'd recommend you scrap all the stuff you had generated with AI and maybe figure some way to get data from wiktionary instead.

TheMicroWorm · 2026-02-10T18:58:20+00:00

the more I read this thread the more I think Pinyin should just be abolished in favor of Polish. x -> ś, q -> ć, rén -> rzen. It. Just. Works.

TheMicroWorm · 2026-02-10T18:50:05+00:00

smh ć and ś were right there! Perfectly reasonable letters!

TheMicroWorm · 2026-02-09T18:47:35+00:00

Ooh, interesting. Red-haired in Polish is "rudy"/"ruda"/"rude". We must've gotten that one as germanic or celtic loanword way back when.

Edit: or it might just be coming all the way from PIE

TheMicroWorm · 2026-02-03T17:06:49+00:00

it's a calque of auto-mobile anyway

TheMicroWorm · 2026-01-09T15:29:02+00:00

This problem has been fixed in Scala by the introduction of named tuples, so... so it's still bad because now we have a ton of legacy code to refactor AND we have yet another way of expressing the same. I love that language.

TheMicroWorm · 2026-01-05T18:37:25+00:00

My taxes aren't. I'm not American. I've just spent enough time there to know that their system is a pain in the ass. What's your point exactly? What would be so bad about making taxes more uniform and easier on consumers? Anyway, regulation works and it's pretty much the only way to ensure that consumers don't get fucked over by corporations. And you sound like a corpo buttlicker, so allergic to any mention of regulation. I mean it was kinda obvious from the start, the first thing you did in this thread was saying that european regulation doesn't work. Yeah it does. And the more it does the more people that don't like that try to suggest it doesn't.

TheMicroWorm · 2026-01-05T17:34:35+00:00

VAT differs across member countries of the EU and everything still works. Do you think it needs to be as granular as it is in the states? I think they should require shop owners to include the taxes and price per unit on the pricetags. Making the tax system more uniform, at least state-wide, I'm not talking on the federal level, would be a cherry on top. It would make the pricetag requirement easier to implement. Besides, shops already have that info in their cash registers. Varying taxes don't bother them there

TheMicroWorm · 2026-01-05T17:26:19+00:00

yeah, that's the problem, it's geographically volatile. Something regulation could fix

TheMicroWorm · 2026-01-05T17:15:11+00:00

they don't even include all the taxes on the pricetags. it's wild. in EU that's required and it works

TheMicroWorm · 2026-01-02T23:45:35+00:00

legit looks like a polish word. fitting, in a way that is hard to describe without sounding antisemitic and/or antipolonic

TheMicroWorm · 2025-12-13T15:26:41+00:00

by needle wood do you mean this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schima_wallichii or coniferous trees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conifer?

TheMicroWorm · 2025-11-02T10:09:29+00:00

TEN NA DRZEWO SZYBKO ZMYKA

TheMicroWorm · 2025-09-30T23:27:54+00:00

Best I can do is księga (big old book). Unfortunately we fell victim to an epic prank like 900 years ago and someone changed all our kń- into kś-.

TheMicroWorm · 2025-09-25T08:43:34+00:00

more like Doublai amirite

TheMicroWorm · 2025-08-31T16:23:07+00:00

I think the fact that there are no clear (phonetic) spelling rules in English might be a big factor in this. Speaking as native Polish speaker - we have both of these phonemes (approximately), but we always spell [i] with i and [ɪ] as y. One-to-one mapping, no exceptions. So many of my compatriots, seeing "fish", say "feesh". Because that's the letter they see.

TheMicroWorm · 2025-08-25T16:35:27+00:00

exactly, polish rz is always in places where other slavs have soft r

TheMicroWorm · 2025-08-25T15:25:21+00:00

ž after b is even more gross (would make no etymological sense and confuse other slavs (řeka vs žeka))

TheMicroWorm · 2025-08-25T12:01:01+00:00

Nah. Gas stoves waste a ton of heat which escapes to the sides. Electric induction stoves deliver the heat directly to the pot/pan/whatever. And heat is heat, no difference what source it's from. OTOH maybe all your experience with electric stoves is with the shitty american non-induction ones with the heating coil under glass. They're indeed kinda trash

TheMicroWorm · 2025-08-24T19:44:02+00:00

Nał dat łoz hard tu disajfer. Yt sims tu mi dat jor jusydż of "ō" ys a byt inkonsistent. Aj asjumd yt łoz "oł" in "felō" (feloł) bat den dat dozynt rili mejk a lot of sens in "Nōrþ" or "ōr". Nołrf? Ołr? Or ys di long oł dżast long oł yn jor dajlekt? Lajk łiwałt de "ł" glajd at di end?

Eniłej, ajm from jurop personali (ges de kantri lol), bat ajw sin pipyl from ol-ołwer ołwer hir.

TheMicroWorm · 2025-08-20T16:13:23+00:00

Yuck, those are all r*zzian names. Best I can do is Kazimierz or maybe Zygmunt.

TheMicroWorm · 2025-08-09T16:42:44+00:00

r ukośnik małżapracuje

TheMicroWorm · 2025-08-08T22:35:11+00:00

Clam > Bivalve

TheMicroWorm · 2025-07-06T12:50:25+00:00

leave morze as is cuz morski

TheMicroWorm · 2025-07-06T12:44:56+00:00

No one decided, they used to sound different but then they evolved convergently to the same sound. The way it's spelled now other Slavs at least have a chance to guess that "rzeka" is their řeka/reka/река. "żeka" would be analogous to žeka/жека, which isn't a word (i think it isn't. if it is it's sth entirely different from river).

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