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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The weird thing about the origin of the word sandwich is that everyone had been eating them for centuries, but one day the Earl of Sandwich orders one and they say, "it takes too long to say bread-and-meat, let's just call it a sandwich."

By the way, no one knows for sure the etymology of 'squid.'

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Squid is a perfect description of a squid though. So whoever came up with that one, nailed it!

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There are a bunch of animal names like that. Notably "dog" and "chicken" just showed up without any real source. In middle English we have hounds, and fowls/cocks/hens. It's strange for domestic animals that have been around forever to get renamed afor no apparent reason.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I could've swore dog came from the old Scottish word dug. Which was another word for dog

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Huh, I just assumed chicken was chick+hen

[–] Sorgan71@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

not true, squid come from squyrde

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know what "squyrde" is, but it doesn't show up in any etymological source I've ever seen.

For example:

squid (n.)

"ten-armed marine mollusk, cuttlefish," 1610s, a word of unknown origin. Klein's sources suggest it is a sailors' variant of squirt and so called for the "ink" it jets.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/squid

[–] Sorgan71@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Yes. Thats where squyrde comes from