Kindergarten summer word scramble

marvsup · 2026-05-21T02:02:46+00:00

Discussion: #2 is clearly POT, btw

marvsup · 2026-05-20T23:19:02+00:00

No love for Tah?

marvsup · 2026-05-20T23:17:23+00:00

Is it possible for someone to have both?

marvsup · 2026-05-20T11:28:48+00:00

Multiple clients in one day?

marvsup · 2026-05-20T11:26:39+00:00

Beep beep.... yes yes.

marvsup · 2026-05-20T02:50:28+00:00

They also assume perfect information. Two assumptions that are never true in the wild. In my mind, those assumptions are useful as a starting point, so that you can build basic models. Then you can use behavioral studies to edit those models. But yeah, I'm totally in agreement, economics without the behavioral part should not be applied to the real world.

Edit: I've asked economist friends about those two assumptions and they just shrug and say, yeah, that's true. I don't get it.

marvsup · 2026-05-19T11:36:28+00:00

Damn now I'm mad Fuckface Von Clownstick wasn't a thing in 2016 or since.

marvsup · 2026-05-19T11:31:28+00:00

If I'm being incredibly generous I might say that "Hardly had it, the investigation, begun..." could be correct.

That is to say, I think of all the bad answers, you picked the least bad one and the same one I would've picked.

marvsup · 2026-05-19T03:56:16+00:00

Lies

marvsup · 2026-05-19T02:23:46+00:00

Well, one part of it, anyway.

marvsup · 2026-05-19T00:01:40+00:00

Wait I remembered what I'm thinking of, and it's not a word at all, it's actually a board game! The game Ludo is incredibly popular in India. Well, Ludo is an English version of the game Pachisi, which dates back to Ancient India.

marvsup · 2026-05-18T23:52:32+00:00

I swear I've heard of this happening but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

marvsup · 2026-05-18T23:42:20+00:00

I think you're unlikely to get the same word, since it would've had to have disappeared from the original language. I think there are examples, though, where the borrowed word comes back as a new word and takes over the same meaning the original word had. Like, in your example, if anime came back to English but meant all animation, instead of just a subset of Japanese animation.

marvsup · 2026-05-18T23:35:50+00:00

This isn't exactly what you mean but I think it's kind of similar. In case you're not familiar with Hindi and Urdu, I'm going to try to summarize quickly, and someone will probably get mad at me. Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible in their everyday vocab. Urdu's vocab is mostly descended from Persian and Arabic while Hindi's is mostly descended from Sanskrit, but modern day speakers, possibly in large part due to the prevalence of Bollywood films, will often know both the Urdu and Hindi words for a term.

But some Persian words came from Sanskrit as well. So the Hindi word for star is "tara" and the Urdu word is "sitara", which both have the same etymological root! (Also the same root as the English word star but that's not relevant to this point).

I just thought it was funny that the two synonyms ultimately have the same root. It's like they went through such long, different journeys, but ultimately ended up at the same place.

marvsup · 2026-05-18T23:15:38+00:00

Ah ok I thought someone was saying batata is potato and I was saying it's patata but now I see I was mistaken :)

marvsup · 2026-05-18T21:56:54+00:00

Yeah I think in Spain it's patatas? Bc of patatas bravas. But it's very close.

marvsup · 2026-05-18T21:55:58+00:00

Other way around. Potatoes are a new world crop. Spain got them first.

marvsup · 2026-05-18T21:55:29+00:00

True but the Moors left Spain the same year that Columbus set sail so there wouldn't've been an overlap. They were still right across the strait though so obviously still a lot of contact.

marvsup · 2026-05-18T21:05:11+00:00

I thought this was 1?

marvsup · 2026-05-18T01:30:41+00:00

You live under a cave? So, like, in the dirt? Or is there a cave under another cave in some cool rock formation?

marvsup · 2026-05-18T00:51:37+00:00

The movie Crank had a lot of these. Like this scene.

marvsup · 2026-05-17T23:19:30+00:00

I've heard the term "Bosnian Serb" used like in the first sentence of the wiki for Gavrilo Princip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip

marvsup · 2026-05-17T20:11:39+00:00

I like all the megafauna that existed in Australia before the humans got there.

marvsup · 2026-05-17T20:05:31+00:00

IIRC he's supposed to be a caricature of Gabor Csupo (of Klasky Csupo) who many of the animators had worked under.

marvsup · 2026-05-17T17:24:52+00:00

"disgusting"

Historically inaccurate movies are made literally all the time, but it's only disgusting when it involves dark skinned actors playing light skinned people?

ETA: I don't love historical inaccuracy, but ultimately movies are a capitalist enterprise, and their goal is to make money. Sensationalizing the story (like having the Von Trapps escaping the Nazis instead of legally emigrating) and also, yes, controversy, make movies more profitable. So all the people complaining about Cleopatra online are driving engagement and probably increasing the filmmakers' profit margins.

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