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can’t believe I only just learned about the attested Gaulish word “marcosior” (< PCeltic *marko- ‘horse’ but as a passive verb in the desiderative or future) which means “I want to be ridden like a horse” and occurs in exactly the context you’re imagining

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protestants be like:

the ApoSTATIC creed

ATHEISM = PROTESTANTISM

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i just did the BOFA thing to my mum and she goes “that’s very rude” and I said “i’m sorry, i meant it as a parody” and she said “of what?” then i said “a parod-eez nuts” and i heard my dad laugh from the other room

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marxist girl with a humiliation kink that gets off on being called unserious

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I think people today have really forgotten that it only takes one bad gloop and she do what I yoinky. I mean really.

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when i was a kid i would get a sick thrill from learning someones middle name now i dont feel anything at all ever and im no good for nobody

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Hello skinny tgirl. Lately you've been complaining that your tits aren't growing. In front of you is a plate of food.

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Feel the Urge

I did this post recently and you know what, let's make it a theme, "people make it weird with Greek roots in English". I will never get over how weird it is to have this narrow appendix to the language where every word comes from the internal jargon of either

early Christians,

Neoclassicist humanists, or

modern scientists

There is such a particular cultural connotation at the intersection of those things; raw Greek in English comes off as the native language of an esoterically mystical managerial professionalism.

So on that note, the -urge suffix! This one is really funny because (and perhaps I'm overgeneralizing from my experience here) you first notice it via goofy words like "thaumaturge" or "demiurge", maybe "theurge", terms of art for people who wear cloaks. So you start out thinking of it as a term that has to do with mysticism, and then it's like, okay, wait, hang on,

technically a demiurge is just a craftsman and the word got kidnapped by esotericists (compare "freemasonry")

and also there's "dramaturge", a playwright,

    which is not any sort of a pun on "thaumaturge",

        but quite unrelatedly the "thauma" part is cognate with "theatre"

"surgeon", right, that's from chirurgeon or "hand-worker". (I'm so mad that "people-worker" is a craftsman and "hand-worker" is a surgeon.)

And then I guess due to the aforesaid group's penchant for abstraction, there's a lot of -urgies where the corresponding urge is disused: metallurgy, energy, allergy. (Allergy means "other/foreign work" and was coined by analogy to energy, which feels like something New Agers should be using to better effect)

Similarly, liturgy, this also means "people-work", but differently. Goddammit. I think demos is like people as a body politic, and laos is like burlap sack randos, and then Christians developed this modified sense of "burlap sack randos (affectionate)".

After physicists co-opted "energy" they went on a bacchanalian rampage and did a bunch of direct borrowings like erg and ergon, but those are dumb and I count them as part of the wizard/philosopher subgroup.

...and, uh, hm. is that it?

    OK so technically, bear with me, "George" is actually geourge, "earth-worker" (a farmer). This one is actually my favourite because it has "passing privilege", it can just walk past all the wankery its siblings are pulling and pretend not to know them

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I hate this so much.

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biggest mindfuck is the fact that it can be so so difficult to tell the difference between when it's time for "do it bored/scared/stupid but by jove just do it" and when it's time for "if it sucks hit the bricks"

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shakira, parvati

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Pregnant woman: eats mutton

Sheep soul staring at developing baby: This is where the fun begins

Baby a few years later: Has weird eyes and ruminates

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but dont ye forget this!

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the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

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The Courier-News, Bridgewater, New Jersey, September 11, 1929