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Still blows my mind that the chapo subreddits got nuked but shit like this is a daily and acceptable occurrence on that site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat-burning
Cat-burning was a form of entertainment throughout Europe prior to the 1800s. In this form of entertainment, people would gather dozens of cats in a net and hoist them high into the air from a special bundle onto a bonfire causing death through the effects of combustion, or effects of exposure to extreme heat. In the medieval and early modern periods, cats, which were associated with vanity and witchcraft, were sometimes burned as symbols of the devil.
Also, zomg 動物!!! Big up to this genius for opening up a first year kanji textbook and cracking this sinister code
If I were capable of having a religion I think I'd have to go with Islam cause cats
Kanji is a Japanese corruption of Hànzì. Japan is to the east. East rhymes with yeast. Yeast make bread. Bread rhymes with dead. Adolf Hitler is dead. I rest my case.
It's good to comment and contribute, but fuck you I didn't want to know that
Those statue avatar guys who love to jerk off to EVROPA always forget that ye olde timey white Christian folks were incredibly backwards and savage
Has there ever been a good argument made using the etymology of a word? I've certainly never seen one.
as a linguist
no
(note: I am not actually a linguist but it was my major)
Just stumbled upon one lol (no idea whether it's actually good linguistics tho. Might be entirely made-up and still slaps)
The word “duty” is derived from the word “due.” “Due” traces its origins back to the old French deu. Both source and derivation share the same meaning: that which is owed. A duty isn’t a responsibility to be fulfilled, it is a debt that must be repaid. If a boss tries feeding you a less etymologically accurate version of this bullshit, tell them to go pound sand. The only debt accrued on the job is the debt your boss owes you.
Reminded me of "Debt" by Graeber, there's a lot of etymology analysis there.
the term culture came from the term cultivate which not only used in the farming sense but they felt they need to cultivate the minds and beliefs of people as sort of social conditioning. my soc class went over several etymology like the term mob and masses a few others and how roots can show indications of how it got to its current connotation i could be butchering but im summarizing mega lazy lol
"The Chiiiineeeeese are cruel to animals," I lament, preparing to dig into this order of 50 chicken wings.
"They're biologically and culturally wired to view animals as objects and nothing more," I continue, stuffing a bacon-filled hamburger into my mouth.
"Those asians are so inhumane," I wipe chicken wing grease off my hands so I can put the horse race on. The waitress brings out my order of pork rinds, "Can you believe how those asians treat animals?" I ask her, "It's sickening!"
Yes America, where chicken Processing became the pinnacle of humane animal treatment.
America, you used to be able to lynch a darkie in the street before the whole world became a bunch of fairy pinko removeds
Now they record it on the phone and throw heroes in jail
smh
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America where rabbits are legally classified as fowl because even the laws on the books don't think mammals should be treated the ways rabbits are.
Most Americans don't give a fuck about non-Americans. They are not regarded as living beings in the sense we would normally think. Non-American cruelty is rife in America. Non-Americans are seen as threats or 'moving targets' (literally the American translation)
schoolchildren or "military aged males" (literally the american translation)
I remember being a solipsistic white suburban teenage chud-in-waiting who consumed nothing but action movies/games and I gotta say, this literally isn't an exaggeration at all.
(for my fellow non linguists, the english word animal comes from the Latin word for breath)
More from PIE than latin right? if i'm not mistaken, by the time latin was a thing animal meant "living thing [that breathes]" and breath would have been respirare. You have anima, but it's more like life/soul as i understand it. But I speak spanish as a second language so most of my latin knowledge is working backwards from that so I could be off base.
Wait, the word for animal comes from pies?!
I'm guessing it's from the Cornish dialect?
ah right on, probably true both ways when you go that far back. It gets a little fuzzy once you get into PIE territory but even anima can have connotations to wind/air so I assume they probably had some spirtualist/animist view of air/wind/breathing as an important/vital part of life. Anyway I was just curious cuz I like words and stuff.
Latinist here, it comes from anima which does mean breath but more importantly has a connotation of soul. Interestingly though animal is a neuter noun which is a category reserved almost exclusively for objects(and in some cases non objects viewed as objects i.e. slaves).
"I fucking hate those asians"
Go fuck yourself
"bro wtf I was talking about the CCP"
Only the filthy chinese eat animals. The glorious white people would never eat animals.
I mean, have these people seen the roads next to a ponds during turtle season?
Unless some fucking Chud in a lifted truck smashing a bunch of turtles doesn't count as animal cruelty
![Hmm, I wonder what "animal" means in latin. [CW: sinophobia]](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/Z8ggxM1hZn.png){kind=link}