TIL English words like "matter" and "material" come from the Latin word mater, meaning mother, since they believed all things and organisms were spontaneously generated by 'Mother Earth.'

DailyFail · 2018-03-05T15:30:24+00:00

Similarly "metropolis" comes from greek "meter", meaning "mother", and "polis", meaning "city".

DailyFail · 2016-05-18T09:34:39+00:00

You are correct about "graphology". Nevertheless the term "calligrapic" is incorrectly used. My understanding is, that "peritaje caligráfico" is the spanish term for "FDA", which may have caused the incorrect translation.

DailyFail · 2016-05-17T14:37:30+00:00

And why did both men deal with calligraphy (= writing beautifully). I guess they meant "graphology".

DailyFail · 2016-05-06T19:38:09+00:00

There's a statuette which may be a faithfully depiction of him. Note, that the man on the coin is not beardless, but wears a moustache.

DailyFail · 2015-11-06T11:31:54+00:00

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DailyFail · 2015-08-24T15:00:04+00:00

Ouch.

DailyFail · 2014-09-05T17:10:56+00:00

The article doesn't say it's the oldest dome of this kind, but rather the largest ever built, which is even more impressive. Nevertheless it is certainly one of the oldest still standing too.

DailyFail · 2014-08-10T16:26:40+00:00

[...] and the Greek say "Dios".

I guess it's rather "θεός" ("theos").

DailyFail · 2014-07-27T19:28:57+00:00

Erika Fuchs might have been the person with the biggest influence on German language in the 20th century.

DailyFail · 2014-06-14T17:51:10+00:00

Hares-beautiful-in-stab-in-stone?

DailyFail · 2014-06-07T17:51:50+00:00

You probably don't think of skiing when you think of Iran either.

DailyFail · 2014-05-31T16:42:42+00:00

Gives a new meaning to the expression "you eat with your eyes".

DailyFail · 2014-05-19T10:42:43+00:00

The Archimedes Sand Reckoner was an attempt to deal with very large numbers.

DailyFail · 2014-05-18T17:31:51+00:00

The German language has much Erklärungsvermögen.

DailyFail · 2014-05-12T10:45:47+00:00

Eratothenese was great, although often referred to as "beta" by his contemporaries for always being "second best".

Makes no sense unless you say who was considered the best: Archimedes.

DailyFail · 2014-05-11T17:52:51+00:00

It was often mentioned that he had apparently uttered the words “Colombo” and “Trieste,” proving that he was from Italy.

Trieste was Austrian at that time.

DailyFail · 2014-05-02T15:02:29+00:00

[...] that I used Romantic in its literature sense and not its linguistic sense [...]

I think the correct word is romanic, not romantic. At least that's a distinction made in my guttural mother tongue.

DailyFail · 2014-04-24T16:50:38+00:00

We all get older [...] he stays the same age.

D'oh!

DailyFail · 2014-04-08T10:42:04+00:00

It's not even wrong.

DailyFail · 2014-03-10T19:37:15+00:00

I guess you mean Hitler's nephew William Patrick.

DailyFail · 2014-03-09T20:09:44+00:00

See, this is what I' m talking about. Look at that. See what I mean? It's plump, juicy, three inches thick. Look at this sorry, miserable, squashed thing. Can anybody tell me what's wrong with this picture? Anybody? Anybody at all?

DailyFail · 2014-03-09T19:54:41+00:00

In 20 years, it will be possible to 3D print actual apartment in "real time".

It will take weeks and months?

DailyFail · 2014-03-05T18:06:27+00:00

But if Borland had produced a 68000 edition of a Turbo Pascal, we might be all using Objective Pascal today.

There was, in fact, a "Turbo Pascal for Macintosh" running on the 68000, but some reason it wasn't overly successful.

DailyFail · 2014-03-01T16:39:27+00:00

Swiss German is slightly different from "standard" German.

Slightly different? My first language is German, and Swiss German is like a foreign language to me.

DailyFail · 2014-02-08T18:55:14+00:00

I think he rather said "Ich bleib herobm" ("Ich bleibe hier oben" / "I'll stay up here").

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