this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
65 points (98.5% liked)

Technology

41013 readers
458 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Quexotic@beehaw.org 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe it's a translation issue, we have

  • rivers
  • streams
  • creeks
  • Brooks and
  • runs

...

Maybe they just have the 2 words so there's information lost in translation?

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 5 hours ago

That's a wildly incomplete list. I guess if you're out east, that might feel like a full list, but if you've ever lived somewhere with arroyos, you've never experienced brooks or runs. I mean, short of Mel Brooks and having diarrhea.

There's an old joke about growing up in Phoenix: That one does not associate rivers or bridges with water.