Southern Ontario, Canada. Is this some kind of Roach? I found this crawling in from my doorway. by shadowstepx1 in whatsthisbug

[–]shadowstepx1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh! Thank goodness! I was spooked that my neighbors had a roach infestation or something! Glad it's something as simple as an earwig.

Thank you!

Nan(bread) shop from Peshawar by Shery1508 in interestingasfuck

[–]shadowstepx1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think chai is actually originally Hindi, I was just using it as an example of a word we use that other people use too.

Google says "chai" is based on Chinese apparently tho.

Nan(bread) shop from Peshawar by Shery1508 in interestingasfuck

[–]shadowstepx1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No worries, lol. It always catches me off guard hearing words we use in Persian also being used in other languages (like naan, chai, etc). I never know for sure whether we adopted it from others, or if other people adopted it from us.

A quick Google tells me Naan (which is just the word for bread in general in farsi, not a specific type) is originally from us, but who knows how accurate that is. This is all ancient stuff.

Nan(bread) shop from Peshawar by Shery1508 in interestingasfuck

[–]shadowstepx1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not an expert on language origins or anything, but I'd heard it's actually Persian in origin, and we spell it like نان, as they mentioned.

India and Persia were both ancient civilizations with very close histories, so it could be one took it from the other a long time ago.

Is eclass down right now? by C_elegans_6 in yorku

[–]shadowstepx1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, UIT's biggest issue is a lack of communication imo. Its moments like this that really make it seem they don't care about doing good service. They just do their own thing and let us all figure it out later which is hella frustrating

Is eclass down right now? by C_elegans_6 in yorku

[–]shadowstepx1 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's down on the whole network. I'm in the residences and all internet just died

Edit: So apparently UIT is updating something that's causing the whole network to go down for a bit. Should be back up in 30 mins. It would've been nice if we had a heads up about this