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Dolphins have a highly developed spoken language, similar to the human language. This indicates a high level of intelligence and consciousness in dolphins. In addition to this, dolphin brains are somewhat larger and more complex than human ones.
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Prairie dog language is complex. They don’t just have a call for “danger”: their calls differentiate human, hawk, domesticated dog, coyote etc. and specify size & color. One study found that they can communicate “Here comes the short human in the yellow” (vs the tall human in blue) to each other.
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Linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin made the claim that there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative during a lecture. To which someone responded, “Yeah, yeah.”
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Was that a brain freeze? What the hell just happened?
Do you ever have those moments where you just can’t remember what something is called? And you don’t think you’d be able to come up with the word (or words) even if your life depended on it?
It hits all of us differently, but I think we can safely say that it definitely hits all of us sometimes. I guess it’s just our brain telling us that we need to take a break. Or a nap. Or a two-week vacation.
Whatever the case, I think we can agree that it is always FUNNY when this happens.
So let’s check out some funny tweets from folks who had to come up with new words because they just couldn’t seem to summon up the right ones.
Enjoy!
I love the second one, too!
I know someone from Brazil who kept calling rings “finger necklace”, and we once went to the grocery store to get lightbulbs. She asked an employee where they were located, and couldn’t think of the word so she described it as “sunshine for your home”
— wenter (@beavis_grande) March 10, 2020
Maybe it should be renamed?
I once completely blanked on the word for milk in Italian, which is very obviously latte. A word widely appropriated in the English language. In my panic with much arm gesticulating, I blurted out “Sai? Succo di mucca!” (You know? Cow juice!). Got the milk though so…
— Gᴀʀᴇᴛʜ LᴜTʜᴇʀʏɴ (@GarethLuTheryn) March 8, 2020
Yeah…that’s what I meant.
one time i forgot the word for “steak” and when i opened the fridge i asked my mom why we had flat beef in the refrigerator and she looked at me like the bloody idiot i am and said “YOU MEAN STEAK???”
— nadis @COMMS OPEN (@nadis_subdued) March 8, 2020
In a good way!
I love shit like this. My bf is Bulgarian and says the cutest things. He calls crumbs, ‘crumples’ and it makes me gasp from the pure loveliness.
— Andrew Grace (@AndrewBGrace) March 8, 2020
And it makes sense to me.
my old roommate is Chinese and she forgot how to say paper towels so she called it “kitchen toilet paper” cute
—
(@PlasenciaMarian) March 8, 2020
Well, he was just doing his best.
When my Dad was new to the US fr Bolivia
in the early 60’s, he was flirting w a woman and told her in his limited English- “I love your navel.” “Oh I mean your nipples.” He meant her dimples.
#translationfail
— Kari Peláez (@kari_206native) March 9, 2020
Yes! One of those!
My first language is English and when I was in England I wanted to buy an umbrella but I forgot what an umbrella was and I just went to the guy and was like “can I have one of those rain things you put over your head” and he was like “an umbrella?” And i said yes like an idiot.
— vin | BLM
(@daisukesclown) March 9, 2020
And by that, I mean soup.
One of my cleverest and most fabulous friends at university (now PhD in neuroscience) once forgot the word for what she wanted in a restaurant and tried to explain with “like a really REALLY wet salad”.
Soup.
She wanted soup.
— Wesley “WASH YOUR HANDS” Mallin (@wesleymallin) February 18, 2019
We’ll forgive you.
When I was pregnant with my first, I cried one day because I forgot the word “banana.”
I described it to my then-husband, “It comes it its own case! It’s yellow!”
— muriel puce, antifa wangdoodle #acab #blm (@fisty) February 19, 2019
They were impressed. Maybe…
Hello my name is Sue. I have a PhD and a career in landscape archaeology and thanks to a random brain freeze forgot the word for trowel so had to describe it as ‘a digging implement’ to an archaeologist colleague
— Prof Susan Oosthuizen (@DrSueOosthuizen) February 18, 2019
Sing this to yourself in the tune of “Burnin’ for You.”
I once forgot the word for tired and said I was “hungry for sleep”. In English.
— Ashley Nicole Black (@ashleyn1cole) October 7, 2019
And I’m gonna start using it!
Couldn’t remember the word “railing” and instead said “upstairs fence”.
— Midwest Elite
(@folderolz) October 7, 2019
Does this ever happen to you?
Where you can’t remember a pretty common word or phrase?
If so, please share your funny stories with us in the comments.
Thanks!
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Talking can be hard and stuff…
And even if you think you have a great grasp on your native tongue, every once in a while you really have a hiccup and can’t remember a correct word or phrase.
It happens to the best of us! You think Bill Shakespeare never made any mistakes? Trust me, even that guy totally blew it once in a while. There’s even a lost version of Hamlet where he really biffed a lot of the language (that’s a lie, by the way).
Enjoy these posts from people who just couldn’t seem to find the right word…we think you’ll have some good laughs.
Don’t beat yourself up about it!
I FORGOT THE WORD FOR KNIFE AND CALLED IT A STABBY
— kOwOda ᓚᘏᗢ (@KodaOfHeart) July 6, 2020
I sure don’t.
Just forgot the word for horse so I said ‘animal car’
— Phil Lester (@AmazingPhil) February 5, 2018
Has a nice ring to it.
I forgot the word “router” so I called it the WiFi dispenser.
— Darlin’ Darla (@Darlainky) October 1, 2018
And I will use it from now on!
Husband is Colombian and he forgot the word for gas, so he told me to fill up his car with vroom vroom juice
— Baba Issues
(@QueerPalestine) March 8, 2020
The hat for the pot.
My bf's first language is french, and he forgot the word for "lid", so instead he held up the pot and asked "where is his hat?"
— Sam Collins (@chemicollins) March 7, 2020
And it’s a cool visual!
My German ex boyfriend couldn’t remember what a caterpillar was called, so it became a walking eyebrow.
— Matt Clegg (@BubonicClegg) March 8, 2020
That’s amazing.
My best friend is Korean and he didn’t know the word for period so instead it was “that thing that happens every month, destroys the baby house”
— Street Rags (@meagangillis) March 8, 2020
Gotta be careful with those.
Spent a lot of time with a French group in Scotland and one of them dropped a jar. Screamed out “ARGH! My foot fingers!”
— Stálfiðrildi (@StalFithrildi) March 8, 2020
Or whatever it’s called…
Photo Credit: someecards
It’s a lot of fun!
Photo Credit: someecards
Makes sense, I guess.
Photo Credit: someecards
Oh, right…soup…
One of my cleverest and most fabulous friends at university (now PhD in neuroscience) once forgot the word for what she wanted in a restaurant and tried to explain with “like a really REALLY wet salad”.
Soup.
She wanted soup.
— Wesley "WASH YOUR HANDS" Mallin (@wesleymallin) February 18, 2019
Has anything like this ever happened to you?
Talk to us in the comments and tell us about what words or phrases you forgot!
We promise we won’t make fun of you…too much…
Please and thank you!
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When someone tells you to take something with a “grain of salt,” you should be skeptical about what you’ve heard, because your source may be unreliable.
A grain of salt is tiny. It is also a reflection of not putting too much belief in something that has already proven itself worthy of reservation.
But where does the association between salt and skepticism come from? We’ll tell you what we know, but you take this information with a grain of… well, you know.
Photo credit: Pixabay
The phrase itself goes all the way back to 77 A.D. It’s earliest recorded use comes from Roman naturalist and philosopher Pliny the Elder, who created an antidote to poison in his Naturalis Historia—it called for figs, walnuts, rue (an herb), and a “grain of salt.”
It didn’t appear to have a symbolic meaning until a few hundred years later.
In the 17th-century, Anglican Bible commentator John Trapp included it his A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments as a metaphor concerning his own writing.
Just what its meaning was to Trapp, however, is still unclear.
Photo credit: Pixabay
Over the years, the phrase continued to make its way through the English language in literal and figurative speech, but wasn’t used in its current incarnation until just after the Second World War.
It was then that became widely used by Americans and the British, who slightly altered the phrase to a “pinch” of salt.
In 1948, English author F.R. Cowell first included it with this particular meaning in his book, Cicero & the Roman Republic. According to Cowell, Cicero and those around him “took more than the proverbial pinch of salt before swallowing everything written by these earlier authors.”
Photo credit: Pixabay
Do you use this idiom or know of others with equally fascinating origins?
Let us know in the comments below!
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When someone tells you to take something with a “grain of salt,” you should be skeptical about what you’ve heard, because your source may be unreliable.
A grain of salt is tiny. It is also a reflection of not putting too much belief in something that has already proven itself worthy of reservation.
But where does the association between salt and skepticism come from? We’ll tell you what we know, but you take this information with a grain of… well, you know.
Photo credit: Pixabay
The phrase itself goes all the way back to 77 A.D. It’s earliest recorded use comes from Roman naturalist and philosopher Pliny the Elder, who created an antidote to poison in his Naturalis Historia—it called for figs, walnuts, rue (an herb), and a “grain of salt.”
It didn’t appear to have a symbolic meaning until a few hundred years later.
In the 17th-century, Anglican Bible commentator John Trapp included it his A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments as a metaphor concerning his own writing.
Just what its meaning was to Trapp, however, is still unclear.
Photo credit: Pixabay
Over the years, the phrase continued to make its way through the English language in literal and figurative speech, but wasn’t used in its current incarnation until just after the Second World War.
It was then that became widely used by Americans and the British, who slightly altered the phrase to a “pinch” of salt.
In 1948, English author F.R. Cowell first included it with this particular meaning in his book, Cicero & the Roman Republic. According to Cowell, Cicero and those around him “took more than the proverbial pinch of salt before swallowing everything written by these earlier authors.”
Photo credit: Pixabay
Do you use this idiom or know of others with equally fascinating origins?
Let us know in the comments below!
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In 1923 Illinois officially passed legislation replacing English with ‘American’ as their official language, making it the only state in the Union where people legally ‘speak American’.
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You know when you’re really ducking angry about something, and you’re trying to text your friend about it, but your ducking phone won’t stop saying duck because the ducking autocorrect keeps ducking with your text? Well Buzzfeed finally released a guide to a workaround.
Their solution was for iPhone, which we’ll go over first, then I’ll show you how to do the same thing on an Android.
Source: Andy Golder/Buzzfeed
Source: Andy Golder/Buzzfeed
Source: Andy Golder/Buzzfeed
Via Ben Auxier
Via Ben Auxier
Via Ben Auxier
Via Ben Auxier
Via Ben Auxier
Now go forth. Swear and swear alike.
What’s your best/most cringey autocorrect story? You know where we want you to share it, right?
Let us know in the comments!
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My entire knowledge of the Lord of the Rings universe is “Short man takes ring to volcano, Peter Jackson stretches The Hobbit into three unnecessary movies. ”
But then I’ll stumble upon things like this Tumblr essay from user mirkwoodest, and be reminded that the Lore of the Rings is richer and more complicated than just about anything else out there.
You get it? Lore of the Rings?
Nevermind, just check out this thread about Tolkien’s insane naming system.
Source: mirkwoodest on tumblr
Source: mirkwoodest on tumblr
Source: mirkwoodest on tumblr
Source: mirkwoodest on tumblr
Source: mirkwoodest on tumblr
God bless the internet and its ability to connect people who know way too much about their favorite things. And Tumblr seems to be THE repository for things like that.
What’s a topic you could nerd out about forever? Let us know in the comments!
Or write a lengthy, well-researched post on Tumblr and drop a link in the comments.
Either of those scenarios work for me.
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