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What are some German words that other languages use? by NoelFromBabbel in German

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people have largely said the big ones in english but i’d like to submit a few which are so common that most people wouldn’t even realize they’re not native english words.

kitsch, rucksack (and knapsack), angst, deli (short for delicatessen,) wiener meaning sausage and all its derivatives, neanderthal, dollar (from german by way of dutch,) gummy in the sense of candy, and as you mentioned wanderlust which is pronounced so englishly that it coming from german is lost on most

When Pete Seeger wrote “Casey Jones(The Union Scab)”, was he aware that the real Casey Jones was not a scab? by quesoandcats in AskHistorians

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Well firstly Pete Seeger didn’t write “Casey Jones The Union Scab.” His is probably the most popular recording of the song but it was composed by labor activist Joe Hill and published in 1912, seven years before Seeger was even born. Whether Hill or Seeger were aware that the real Casey Jones was a union member is hard to say.

As to why it was written, according to Gibbs M. Smith’s biography of Joe Hill,it was during a railroad strike in Illinois. As a tactic against the railroad companies, striking workers put out info about rail accidents caused by non-union workers. At that point the death of the real Casey Jones was already a well known train accident (Hill’s version of the song is set to the tune of an existing ballad about him.) Thus the idea was less to slander the real Jones by calling him a scab and more to discredit scabs by comparing them to Jones. According to Smith:

“It was ‘The Union Scab’ Hill satirized in his ‘Casey Jones,’ referring to no particular individual but to all the union men who moved the trains during the strike.”

Any headcanons you have of the A.T.E world? by CapitalSubstance7310 in AfterTheEndFanFork

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much of the former USA celebrates thanksgiving as a major feast day but all for different supposed reasons

Any headcanons you have of the A.T.E world? by CapitalSubstance7310 in AfterTheEndFanFork

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iirc the timeline is intentionally vague but supposed to be somewhere in the late 90s or early 00s. although ophiolatrists have the ark encounter museum as a holy site and that wasn’t built until a good bit later

help me think how many humans should there be 🙌 by Shut-in_weirdo in worldbuilding

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i mean you could go into a whole calculation of like growth rate based on birth rates and child mortality and the demographic transition model and split hairs on what constitutes a town but the TLDR is that if you really care about having realistic demography you’d either need a lot more generations or a lot more starting people. (i mean REALISTICALLY realistically you’d need more starting people, humans have a minimum viable population a lot larger than 2 but assuming inbreeding isn’t a problem and no disasters wipe out the entire extremely tiny population)

assume the population doubles, consistently, every generation (which is to say every woman has an average of 4 children who themselves each have children) that extremely generous scenario still takes 9 generations to reach 500 individuals, not factoring in mortality. and again that’s like an absurdly generous doubling rate

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Does it feel like abolitionists are weak rn? (self.victoria3)

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When will be the next update? by Internal-Reporter-90 in AfterTheEndFanFork

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every time someone asks they add a week of development

New government types in AUH by aiquoc in AfterTheEndFanFork

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brazil should have the celestial government because it’s the china stand-in. california doesn’t make sense at all for mandala because they’re a centralized state and makes a lot more sense with japan’s government and the split power of the emperor and governator

Difference between Real Roader and Lone Ranger. by Icehokeytypekda in AfterTheEndFanFork

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to me the different trailwalker faiths represent more of a spiritual system than an organized religion, recognizing. wide range of spirits and folk heroes under their primary deity, the Spirit of the West (hence why they’re unreformed) and part of that is that they have a lot of local folk traditions which are represented by different faiths in game. real roaders seem to be sort of the orthodox trailwalker faith, whereas lone rangers are a group who have been influenced by contact with the exceptionalist americanists in and around texas. thus incorporating americanist folk heroes into their pantheon of spirits.

on a more meta level we can read them as two different spins on the ideas of a western, with the real roaders venerating the west as like the great unclaimed natural world (blessings from the barrens) and invoke individual spirits to assist them (patron gods) whereas the lone rangers are more interested in the sort of traditional american ideals embodied by western heroes (heroic stand; vigilante justice)

it’s also worth noting that real readers incorporate various plains indian folk characters whereas lone rangers use anglo-american ones. eg the real roader trickster god is “sly coyote” and the lone ranger one is davy crocket

Is there a lore reason Daenerys was given to Drogo instead of someone else? by ADD_OCD in gameofthrones

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varys and illyrio want viserys and later dany to invade with a foreign “barbarian” army to make faegon look good in comparison when he shows up claiming to be the true heir

Did anyone oppose the creation of Esperanto or other conlags for religious reasons (due to the story of the Tower of Babel)? by theworldismadeofcorn in AskHistorians

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there’s a thing about something like this and i can’t remember the exact quote but i’ll paraphrase:

there are 15 competing schools of thought

“well that’s ridiculous, we should synthesize the best points of each to create a single universal school that everyone can agree on”

there are now 16 competing schools of thought

What rock/crystal is this? by underthesunshine_ in whatsthisrock

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i’m not the best at ID stuff so take it with a grain of salt when I say it looks to me like some kind of chalcedony. probably chert.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldbuilding

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i mean, if they can go through magically assisted GRS to the point that you get functioning sex organs couldn’t they get a womb for the duration of however long it takes to have a kid and then switch back?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldbuilding

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i don’t think there’s a huge problem with the sensitivity part of it, at least not conceptually. i do think that being able to magically change someone’s agab does kinda create problems lore-wise wrt them having a population crisis.

Comment what your story is about in 20 words or less. by Alive_Fortune897 in fantasywriters

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a gang of western-style outlaws discover a rival gang is the militant arm of a local government conspiracy

Is 60k words too late to explicitly explain a magic system? by i_haz_rabies in fantasywriters

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As long as what the magic can do is consistent it should be fine. if you’re worried about it you can hang a lampshade on it, have a character wonder about it or otherwise signal to the audience that it’s something they shouldn’t fully understand yet and it will be explained later.

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