*dumps a box full of words on French’s front porch* You never came back for your shit.

Loanwords, loaned to the British Museum so

Would everyone like to know the best thing??? There are two types of borrowed word - loan words and calques. Loan words are words taken directly from the language i.e. tattoo, sushi, guillotine. Calques are words literally translated from the language before being borrowed i.e. beer garden, scapegoat, killer whale (incorrectly calqued, the original actually means whale killer which is a whole other post).

Did anyone notice the fun thing?

Loan word is a calque (German lehnwort lit. Loan+word) and calque is a loan word (French calque - tracing or imitation). Have a good day!

you think I would do that? just go on the internet and tell lies?

do you understand

I made you something OP

wake up babe new pan flag just dropped

So play like a noob? got it

You’re joking, but it actually is a popular theory in chess that a complete noob potentially can beat a master by confusing them - as the noob doesn’t know what they’re doing the master is unable to recognize which of valid strategies they’re pursuing and cannot deploy proper counterstrategy.

Chessmasters when their opponent doesn’t make one of the five approved optimal opening moves:

#used to do shit like this when we fenced#for real tho a newbie is way more of an issue than a master because WHAT are you doing???

I’m currently a fencing coach for a high school club and my least disciplined fencer routinely beats kids who have been fencing for 5-6 years because he’s just so unpredictable and messy that his opponents have no idea what to do.

I know what a master is doing, I just may not be faster than them. I know I’m faster than a newbie but hey what the fuck is happening?

I have, on rare occasions, won pokemon battles like this. I have no idea what the meta is, and just slap things together that sound cool. It’s fun when you win by taking someone completely off guard because “Who would run that?!” Idk man, the noob that just kicked your ass. I’m not smart enough for all these mind games that go into serious competitive pokemon, but I do know big laser go pew.

The Newbie Flail™ is the most terrifying attack imaginable.

“The best swordsman on the planet doesn’t fear the second-best swordsman. He fears the new swordsman, because he has no idea what the lunatic will do.”

For those who didnt realize it wasn't just a blanket statement, but actually made sense

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User @yehudah sharing a screenshot of a Tumblr post (tweet?) from rainbow-femme reading “My thoughts on the whole “make the internet child friendly” thing is that no one under the age of 18 should feel comfortable on the internet”

@yehudah adds “totally normal and not deranged thing to say”

User @arcanescavenger reblogged, sharing an uncredited image of another post (tweet?). That image reads:

“I don't want kids to feel safe on the internet because they aren't, and people looking to take advantage of kids want them to feel comfortable. They want minors using their legal name, posting videos of their school, showing their face as they wear school sweatshirts. I've seen so many recent stalking cases that happened because the person used the Snapchat map feature that allowed people to see where they went and for how long every day

I think that it's good to accept that kids exist on the internet and getting rid of some of the more horrific Wild West aspects is good (Chatroulette type situations, easy to stumble on beheading videos) but the amount that social media sites are telling people they're safe for minors and said minors can let their guard down makes me very nervous. It is not difficult to film your 13 year old nephew for a TikTok, post it like it's your own, then ask the other 13 year olds who like it where they go to school”

@arcanescavenger adds “For those who didn't realize it wasn't just a blanket statement, but actually made sense”

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When I was growing up, when the internet was in its toddler stages, we were warned roundly to never gove out our real names, personal pictures, ages, or location details. No personally identifying information of any kind.

And then companies figured out that they needed all of our digital biometrics in order to properly advertise to us, and you had the push for Real Names on Facebook properties and putting personal pictures in your Uber rider profiles.

We were not safe on the internet before. We are still not safe on the internet; especially not now with governments subpoena'ing companies for our private text messages. I wish people would realize that just because it's a company and not a rando asking for your a/s/l doesn't mean it's any more okay.